Brandenburg Concertos 1–6

The title is French and gets to the point: "Six Concerts with several instruments" is what Bach himself called his famous concert series. The Swiss recorder player and conductor Maurice Steger presents them all - each in a class of its own. Today they are world famous as the "Brandenburg Concertos". But their actual title modestly hits the nail on the head: they are neither pure solo concerts nor real concerti grossi; rather, Bach has used them t...