With Bach into the New Year

It is a beloved tradition of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra to musically welcome the New Year with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. And what could be better suited to this than Bach's magnificent orchestral suite or the second Brandenburg Concerto, which has a festive feel thanks to its trumpet ensemble? Bach's double concerto is one of his best-known works with the instruments favored in the Baroque era - above all the oboe. After Bach's death...