You'll hear why later on.Īlso on the program is Bach's Cantata No. But these works, especially the Double Violin Concerto, nevertheless remain some of the composer's most popular. Concertos were, you might say, a side hustle, something Bach would put together for the Friday night concert series he ran for a number of years. The big projects that occupied Bach's life as a composer encompassed everything from collections of short harpsichord pieces to monumental sacred choral works. Welcome to The Bach Hour from WCRB, Classical Radio Boston. Bach arranged several of Vivaldi's pieces, and also took the template in his own direction to create works like this, the Concerto for Two Violins.īM The brilliance of Bach's double is coming up on The Bach Hour.īM Hello, I'm Brian McCreath. Antonio Vivaldi was one who Bach admired the most, and the Italian Concertos proved to be a creative spark. Along the way, he learned from others, absorbing ideas from far away and reshaping them in his own voice. He was deliberate about it, charting a course through the various styles and forms of music that mattered most to the culture of his time. Bach built a catalog of music that's been, for hundreds of years now, the foundation for Western art music.
Arthur Honegger) - BBC Philharmonic, Leonard Slatkin, conductorīrian McCreath Through the course of roughly a half century, J.S. Alexander Goedicke) - Hamish Milne, pianoĬantata BWV 47 Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden ( translation) - Sandrine Piau, soprano Klaus Mertens, bass Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Ton Koopman, conductorĬoncerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043 - Petra Müllejans and Gottfried von der Goltz, violins Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 539 (trans.
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