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Which is your favorite Brandenburg Concerto?

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:15 am
by sbeckmesser
This should provoke a few responses:

Put in order, from most-liked to least liked, Bach's six Brandenburg Concertos. If you want, you can add a comment to each as to why you like it (or not). My sequence is:
5, 3, 1, 4, 6, 2

--Sixtus

Re: Which is your favorite Brandenburg Concerto?

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:23 am
by Paulsson
Hello Beckmesser,

my precedence is the same - at least at the beginning of the list. For me the two last-named are equivalent.

Re: Which is your favorite Brandenburg Concerto?

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 7:00 pm
by ConBrio
My most liked is the same as yours - No. 5 :arrow: Absolutely beautiful

Well the rest will be 4, 3, 1, 6, 2.
No. 4 is also very nice.

Re: Which is your favorite Brandenburg Concerto?

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:57 am
by reiner torheit
The subtle instrumentation of No 6 is a winner for me - although often we don't hear Bach's specified line-up of 2 violas, 2 gambas, cello, violone & continuo.

As a recorder-player I enjoy No 2 the best - and with a good trumpeter the balance 'problems' aren't serious at all.

I ought to enjoy No 4 too - but all too often it's played by some whizz-kid violinist on a modern violin, and the recorders (who are supposed to be equal partners in the concertino group) are left puffing away in the background, almost drowned-out. Happens nearly every time. I keep an old Dolmetsch plastic recorder for this piece, which has a bore like a bazooka - but still not enough against a modern violinist.

Of course the others are all magnificent in their own ways :))

Re: Which is your favorite Brandenburg Concerto?

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:57 am
by boas1002
i love number 4... :D