Bach's Second Brandenburg Concerto: In F Major

Author: Sun Jia
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: The Second Brandenburg Concerto—“with one trumpet, one flute, one oboe, and one violin as the soloists; two violins, one viola, and one viol as accompanying instruments; cello and harpsichord as the bass”—advances further in the direction of the solo concerto form, which is still influenced by the Venetian polyphonic style of Vivaldi and Tartini, compared to the third Brandenburg Concerto it was composed after. Among the six Brandenburg Concertos, the second is the most representative grand concerto. In the grand concerto form, the orchestra and the ensemble consisting of several solo parts alternate in a question-and-answer manner.