Music@menlo, From Bach, Vol. 3
Music@Menlo’s eleventh season, From Bach, celebrated the timeless work of Johann Sebastian Bach, the composer whose profound legacy has shaped Western music over the two and a half centuries since his death. Each disc of the 2013 edition of Music@Menlo LIVE captures the spirit of the season.
Disc III celebrates the exuberance of Bach’s music for solo instruments and the virtuosity of the soloist. Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe ingeniously pairs strings and wind instruments. Mozart’s Twelfth Piano Concerto, written soon after the death of Bach’s son, similarly treats the piano with virtuosic refinement. Mendelssohn, too, continues this hallowed tradition in his Double Concerto.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
Concerto for Violin and Oboe in c minor, BWV 1060 (ca. 1736)
In 1729, Bach assumed the directorship of the Collegium Musicum, a concert series presented by local musicians at the iconic Zimmermann’s Coffeehouse ...
Disc III celebrates the exuberance of Bach’s music for solo instruments and the virtuosity of the soloist. Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe ingeniously pairs strings and wind instruments. Mozart’s Twelfth Piano Concerto, written soon after the death of Bach’s son, similarly treats the piano with virtuosic refinement. Mendelssohn, too, continues this hallowed tradition in his Double Concerto.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
Concerto for Violin and Oboe in c minor, BWV 1060 (ca. 1736)
In 1729, Bach assumed the directorship of the Collegium Musicum, a concert series presented by local musicians at the iconic Zimmermann’s Coffeehouse ...
