Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (photo Martina Simkovicova)

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra + Ton Koopman + lecture Jan Van den Bossche

Thu 6 Mar 2025 20:15 - 22:25

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Thu 6 Mar 2025

20:15 - 22:25

Thu 6 Mar 2025

20:15 - 22:25

Interval 21:15

Grote Zaal

Past event

Program

19.00 / Early music lecture by Jan Van den Bossche (in Dutch)

20.15 / Main programme
Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 1 BWV 1046
Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 5 BWV 1050
Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 3 BWV 1048
Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 2 BWV 1047
Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 6 BWV 1051
Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 4 BWV 1049

Credits

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman harpsichord, conductor

80-year-old Koopman has been sharing the inventiveness and joy of Bach for 45 years

All six of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos in one evening: a glorious celebration. These pieces, once considered bold and experimental, now feel very familiar to many. But they continue to serve as an inexhaustible wellspring of creativity, fortitude and joy. In addition to strings, the concert will feature horns, trumpet, recorder, and oboe. It is the perfect music to celebrate the eightieth birthday of maestro Ton Koopman.

For 45 years, Ton Koopman and his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra have been synonymous with Bach. Throughout their long career, the conductor and orchestra have won numerous important awards; recordings have been awarded the Gramophone Award, the Diapason d’Or, the BBC Award and several Edisons. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, composed in 1721, served as his application letter to Count Brandenburg. Would you have hired him? Without a doubt, right?

7 p.m. / Lecture Early Music by Jan Van den Bossche
The Brandenburg Concertos
This lecture tells the story of one of Bach’s most iconic collections of music: the Brandenburg Concertos. Six unique works ‘avec plusieurs instruments’ that are considered perfect examples of the Baroque art of ‘concertato’, a word that can mean both ‘dialoguing’ and ‘fighting’. Written for the Margrave of Brandenburg, Bach apologised to him – with the customary submissiveness – for any imperfections in the composition. Was he joking?

Programme booklet (Dutch)

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