CANCELLED: Berliner Barock Solisten / Reinhard Goebel

All six Brandenburg Concertos on a single evening – what would Johann Sebastian Bach have said to that? The concertos were certainly not intended to be performed one after the other, quite the contrary in fact. Bach wrote them at different times, and with different underlying concepts: each concerto highlights one or more different solo instruments that were particularly popular at the time. Only when he had the chance of a new position as kapellmeister at the court of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt did he unite the six works in a collection and preface them with the dedication that brought them their famous name. Bach might well have been irritated at first to find the Berliner Barock Solisten, with well-known musicians like Nils Mönkemeyer or Reinhold Friedrich, devoting one concert to what we have come to regard as a cycle. But he would surely have been delighted after all to hear just how well his six concertos go together.