Brandenburg Concertos 1–6

The title is French and says it all: "Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments," as Bach himself called his famous concert series. The Swiss recorder player and conductor Maurice Steger presents them all – each one a class unto itself. Today, they are world-famous as the "Brandenburg Concertos." But their actual title, in all its modesty, gets to the heart of the matter: they are neither purely solo concertos nor true concerti grossi; rather, Bach...