Side One
Piece: Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046
Composer: J.S Bach
Performers: Hamburg Chamber Orchestra with the Hamburg Bach Soloists, Adolf Scherbaum on Trumpet
Conductor: Harold Newman
Record Date: Non-given, pressing date 1977
Side Two
Pieces: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047; Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Composer: J.S Bach
Performers: Hamburg Chamber Orchestra with the Hamburg Bach Soloists, Adolf Scherbaum on Trumpet
Conductor: Harold Newman
Record Date: Non-given, pressing date 1977
It has been a while since I've listened to Bach and I always find it difficult. He really is boring, yet at the same time amazing. I found myself comparing his music to one of those fractal pictures made by computers; one half beautiful, one half mathematical, and no clear line where the one half begins and the other ends. In the end the Brandenburg Concertos (especially No. 3) will always hold a special place in my heart due to the ridiculous number of times I played them through my Jr high and high school years. Are they redundant? Yes. Are they predictable? Yes. Was Bach writing music that was already 20 years behind his own time? Yes. Was he writing music that will go down in history as some of the best ever put to bar staffs? Without a doubt.
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