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The Brandenburg Concertos

Name: The Brandenburg Concertos
Start: 2024-11-22T19:00:00
Location: The Sheldonian Theatre

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

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Desperate to find a new job in 1721, Bach wrote a set of instrumental concertos and sent them off to the Margrave of Brandenburg in the hope of getting an offer. Had the Margrave so much as glanced at the score for Six Concertos With Several Instruments Bach had sent him, he might have sensed that the composer had delivered something superlative – the high-point of the composer’s project to expand the language of ensemble instrumental music and t...

Program

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 4

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 2

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

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Participants

Mahan Esfahani

Harpsichord

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

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