{"id":3261,"date":"2010-11-17T21:07:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T02:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:57:50","slug":"bachs-1046","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3261","title":{"rendered":"Bach\u2019s 1046"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first of the Bran\u00adden\u00adburg Con\u00adcer\u00adtos, cat\u00ada\u00adlog # bwv1046, is actu\u00adal\u00adly enti\u00adtled Con\u00adcer\u00adto 1<\/em>mo<\/em><\/sup> \u00e0 2 Corni di Cac\u00adcia, 3 Hautb: \u00e8 Bas\u00adsono, Vio\u00adli\u00adno Pic\u00adco\u00adlo con\u00adcer\u00adta\u00adto, 2 Vio\u00adli\u00adni, una Vio\u00adla \u00e8 Vio\u00adlon\u00adcel\u00adlo, col Bas\u00adso Con\u00adtin\u00aduo. <\/em>It has four move\u00adments, unlike the oth\u00ader five con\u00adcer\u00adtos, which have three. You would think that the pat\u00adtern alle\u00adgro \u2014 ada\u00adgio \u2014 alle\u00adgro \u2014 min\u00aduet<\/em> would make it clum\u00adsy, but for some rea\u00adson, it works in this case. The final min\u00aduet does\u00adn\u2019t seem out of place or anti-cli\u00admac\u00adtic. Noth\u00ading could be a bet\u00adter intro\u00adduc\u00adtion to the plea\u00adsures of baroque music. <\/span><\/p>\n

My favourite record\u00adings of it are Trevor Pin\u00adnock\u00ad\u2019s Eng\u00adlish Con\u00adsort 1988 on Arkiv (avail\u00adable on CD<\/span>), and the Pail\u00adlard Cham\u00adber Orches\u00adtra record\u00ading with Jean-Pierre Ram\u00adpal and Mau\u00adrice Andr\u00e9, on vinyl. I haven\u2019t kept up with more con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary record\u00adings. I\u2019m sure that there are many fine ones. Some may pre\u00adfer per\u00adfor\u00admances on \u201corig\u00adi\u00adnal instru\u00adments\u201d (instru\u00adments fash\u00adioned and tuned as they were in Bach\u2019s time). The oth\u00ader impor\u00adtant vari\u00adable (oth\u00ader than sim\u00adple musi\u00adcal tal\u00adent) is the choice of tem\u00adpi. Today\u2019s inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtions tend to gal\u00adlop along very quick\u00adly, based on pre\u00adsump\u00adtions about the play\u00ading style in Bach\u2019s day. The rea\u00adson I like Pin\u00adnock\u00ad\u2019s inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion is that he does\u00adn\u2019t rush it. Is this less authen\u00adtic? I dun\u00adno. But Pin\u00adnock\u00ad\u2019s pace just seems right to me on gut feeling.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1721, while Bach was out buy\u00ading a harp\u00adsi\u00adchord, he bumped into the Mar\u00adgrave of Bran\u00adden\u00adburg, who asked him to send him some con\u00adcer\u00adtos. Bach quick\u00adly select\u00aded six con\u00adcer\u00adtos from his recent out\u00adput, tart\u00aded them up a bit, and sent them with a ded\u00adi\u00adca\u00adtion. In those days, you were smart to leap at any chance of roy\u00adal, or near-roy\u00adal patron\u00adage. The Mar\u00adgrave is said to have nev\u00ader even looked at them, but his title has become the sin\u00adgle most famil\u00adiar word in baroque music. When I worked at a record store, the staff sim\u00adply called them \u201cburg\u00aders.\u201d We casu\u00adal\u00adly tot\u00aded up the num\u00adber of burg\u00aders we sold every day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their endur\u00ading pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty and imme\u00addi\u00adate appeal to the begin\u00adning lis\u00adten\u00ader don\u2019t in the least indi\u00adcate any lack of sub\u00adtle\u00adty. The first con\u00adcer\u00adto can be heard and appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded by a child, and still seem entranc\u00ading to some\u00adone who has grown jad\u00aded with a life\u00adtime of listening.
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The first of the Bran\u00adden\u00adburg Con\u00adcer\u00adtos, cat\u00ada\u00adlog # bwv1046, is actu\u00adal\u00adly enti\u00adtled Con\u00adcer\u00adto 1mo \u00e0 2 Corni di Cac\u00adcia, 3 Hautb: \u00e8 Bas\u00adsono, Vio\u00adli\u00adno Pic\u00adco\u00adlo con\u00adcer\u00adta\u00adto, 2 Vio\u00adli\u00adni, una Vio\u00adla \u00e8 Vio\u00adlon\u00adcel\u00adlo, col Bas\u00adso Con\u00adtin\u00aduo. It has four move\u00adments, unlike \u2026<\/p>\n

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