Volume 1
Brandenburg Concertos I

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

The greatest Baroque Composers: Johann Sebastian Bach- Brandenburg Concertos 1-3
- Suite No. 3, BWV 1068

KAMMERORCHESTER CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH
conducted by PETER SCHREIER

CD 454 403-2 DDD
PHILIPS

- Bach was furious! For almost nine years he had served in Weimar to the duke's satisfaction. He had climbed some distance up the professional ladder in terms of prestige, salary and position, and now this! His superior, Kapellmeister Drese, had died and everyone had assumed that Bach, as his deputy, would succeed him. But Drese's son, a scheming good-for-nothing, had persuaded the duke to thrust him into the top position. For a man recognised as Germany's best organist, keyboard player and composer, this snub justified refusal to work. The angry duke then clapped Bach into prison for four weeks. Fortunately his young admirer, the Prince of Cöthen, rescued him from the dungeon and appointed him head of his own Kapelle. For this top ensemble the obdurate composer, having finally won the post he longed for, wrote the orchestral works known today as the Brandenburg Concertos.