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Subscribe and turn on notifications to be alerted of our uploads! https://bit.ly/3l3yzDc 00:00:00 Overture (Suite) No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air, "Air on a G String" 00:05:19 Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 00:10:10 Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043 00:14:02 Harpsichord Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo 00:17:06 Harpsichord Concerto in D Major, BWV 1045 00:25:07 Violin Concerto in E Major, BWV 1042 00:33:07 Concerto for Flute, Violin, Harpsichord and Strings in A Minor, BWV 1044, "Triple Concerto" 00:41:35 Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 00:46:41 Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C Minor, BWV 1060: I. Allegro 00:52:06 Harpsichord Concerto in E Major, BWV 1053 01:00:23 Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067: VII. Badinerie 01:01:49 Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565: Toccata 01:05:01 Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: I. Aria @ 01:09:18 Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: Prelude 01:12:02 Concerto in the Italian Style, BWV 971, "Italian Concerto": I. Allegro @ 01:16:09 Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: X. Jesu, joy of man's desiring @ 01:19:40 Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: I. Preludio 01:24:00 Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049: I. Allegro 01:31:03 Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846 @ 01:35:48 Anna Magdalena Notenbuch: Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh 114 01:37:29 Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041: III. Allegro assai 01:41:33 Kommt, eilet und laufet, BWV 249, "Easter Oratorio": Adagio 01:47:04 Air on the G String Suite No. 3, BWV 1068 01:49:11 Cantata BWV 147 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring 01:52:42 Suite No 3, BWV 1068 Air on the G String x 01:57:32 Well-Tempered Clavier C Minor BWV 847 Prelude & Fugue Transcroption ** 02:00:51 Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971: II. Andante ° 02:05:45 Concerto in D minor, BWV 974: II. Adagio ° Louis Jullien, Its Philharmonic Orchestra @ Paul Michael Levy x Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler ** Leonardo Locatelli ° Edoardo Brugnoli & Aldo Roberto Pessolano (P)(C) 2025 Classical Tunes All Logos and Images Are Trademarked. All rights of the producer and of the owner of the work reproduced reserved. Unauthorised copying and hiring of this recording prohibited. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the orchestral Brandenburg Concertos; solo instrumental works such as the cello suites and sonatas and partitas for solo violin; keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations and The Well-Tempered Clavier; organ works such as the Schubler Chorales and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and choral works such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival, he has been widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. The Bach family already had several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician, Johann Ambrosius, in Eisenach. After being orphaned at the age of 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother, Johann Christoph, after which he continued his musical education in Lüneburg. In 1703 he returned to Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen, and for longer periods at courts in Weimar, where he expanded his organ repertory, and Köthen, where he was mostly engaged with chamber music. In 1723 he was hired as Thomaskantor (cantor at St Thomas's) in Leipzig. There he composed music for the principal Lutheran churches of the city and its university's student ensemble Collegium Musicum. In 1726 he began publishing his keyboard and organ music. In Leipzig, as had happened during some of his earlier positions, he had difficult relations with his employer. This situation was somewhat remedied when his sovereign, Augustus III of Poland, granted him the title of court composer in 1736. In the last decades of his life, Bach reworked and extended many of his earlier compositions. He died of complications after a botched eye surgery in 1750 at the age of 65. Bach enriched established German styles through his mastery of counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and his adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France. His compositions include hundreds of cantatas, both sacred and secular. He composed Latin church music, Passions, oratorios, and motets. He often adopted Lutheran hymns, not only in his larger vocal works but, for instance, also in his four-part chorales and his sacred songs. Bach wrote extensively for organ and for other keyboard instruments. He composed concertos, for instance for violin and for harpsichord, and suites, as chamber music as well as for orchestra.  #ClassicalMusic #ReadingStudy #bach #baroque_music #strings #violin #classicalmusicforstudying