Of all of the German composers of the time, Johann Sebastian Bach was the best of those who could imitate the styles of French and Italian composers; he forged his own personal style in so doing, and this style was destined to become a universal model. If we examine his compositions, we can clearly see which works are in the Italian style, such as the Toccatas, and those that are characteristic...
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sei Solo for unaccompanied violin figure amongst the baroque works on which the performance traditions of the 19th and 20th centuries weigh most heavily. Rediscovered halfway through the 19th century after having been forgotten for more than a century, these works quickly entered the repertoire of works performed by violinists during the Romantic period: from that moment...
The concertos for oboe and strings Wq 164 and 165 are transcriptions of harpsichord concertos which Bach made in Berlin in 1765: they were very probably performed at a private concert at the court of Frederick the great, which counted a number of excellent oboist among its musicians, like Joachim Wilhelm Dobbert and Johann Christina Jacobi: Bach adapted the harpsichord scores particularly well...
Diep berouw en het verlangen naar goddelijke verlossing zijn twee van de centrale thema's in de cantates van de Noord-Duitse barokcomponisten. Griet De Geyter en Il Gardellino selecteerden drie voorbeeldige werken uit het genre van Dieterich Buxtehude, Georg Philipp Telemann en Johann Sebastian Bach, met bijzondere nadruk op de duidelijk gedirigeerde stem en de frappante expressiviteit van de...
