Next Saturday 23 January at 7.30 p.m., the Fundación Excelentia presents the Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach in the Chamber Hall of the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid. This masterpiece, one of the all-time summits of concert music, will be performed by the Santa Cecilia Classical Orchestra.
Six concerts that the genius of Eisenach composed between 1718 and 1721, during his stay at the court of Köthen (Upper Saxony, Germany), where he worked as chapel master between 1717 and 1723. These are concerts with various soloist groups of instruments which, on the request of the Prince of Brandenburg, Bach composed in 1721 applying the almost infinite possibilities that the concert principles introduced by Italian musicians had spread throughout Europe. They are extraordinary for their use of the ritornello form, for the use of the fugue concertante, for being the culmination of the concerto grosso and for the soloist role of the harpsichord in the fifth concert; but, above all, for their immediate capacity to communicate with the listener, which remains unaltered after the three just centuries that have passed since they were completed by Bach. Tickets at this link.
