Last month I recommended an exciting new recording of Bach violin concertos, just released by Anne Akiko Meyers. Now, let’s listen to a much older performance of the Bach Double Concerto featuring two of the twentieth century’s greatest violinists, Yehudi Menuhin and David Oistrakh. This music was written around 1730 when Bach was working in Leipzig. Bach’s main instrument was the organ, but he was also a fine violinist and he was …
On Valentine’s Day this past February, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers released her newest CD, “Air” The Bach Album, featuring Bach’s A minor and E major Concertos, as well as the “Double” Concerto, accompanied by Steven Mercurio and the English Chamber Orchestra. This recording, which I highly recommend, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Charts and has been a best seller on iTunes and Amazon. It follows on the heels of other excellent …
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is slowly beginning to loosen its grip. As we look forward to warmer temperatures and longer days, let’s enjoy music from Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Written in 1723, The Four Seasons is a collection of violin concertos, each depicting a different season of the year. A concerto is a composition, usually in three movements (Fast, Slow, Fast) written for a solo instrument (or …