Noah Bendix-Balgley plays Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

J.S. Bach turns 337! Happy birthday to the greatest genius of the music world. It’s always a huge pleasure playing these masterpieces by Bach, and performing any of his works encourages me to revisit them as if I were learning them for the first time.
Here’s a concert I did with my colleagues at ‪@berlinphil‬ playing Bach’s joyous Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, recorded in June 2020.
The dilemma of dates on Bach's birthday:
Depending on which calendar you use, you’ll notice some people noting Bach’s birthday as March 21, while others use March 31. Reason being is that Bach’s birth was first recorded using the Julian calendar, but at the time of Bach’s death in 1750, most of Europe had started using the Gregorian calendar. First adopted by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. for use throughout the vast Roman Empire, the Julian calendar had miscalculated the length of a year…by approximately 10 to 11 days! Most of present-day Germany switched to the Gregorian calendar in the early 18th century, but Bach’s hometown of Eisenach was still using the Julian calendar when Bach died. Once the Gregorian calendar became standard throughout most of Europe in the mid-18th century, Bach’s birthday jumped from March 21 to March 31! Some interesting information courtesy of Orchestra of St. Luke’s.

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it's the best recording of this piece i've ever heard🎉