Bach - 6 Brandenburg Concertos [Hogwood-The Academy Of Ancient Music]This set of the Brandenburg Concertos is great, early/authentic instruments work so well with Baroque music, probably Haydn is the watershed mark, after that this type of instrumentation works less well.
Christopher Hogwood is English, now 68, he founded the Academy Of Ancient Music in 1973, and they have helped pioneer the art of performing music as it was heard in the day it was composed.
Also the booklet/back insert is nice, red is a great colour scheme.
Each Brandenburg Concerto seems to focus on a certain instrument or style of playing, i very much notice that the best movements of these Concertos always seem to be the opening movements, and i very much enjoyed the second Brandenburg Concerto, the opening movement is full of vigour and brilliance, the trumpet [Friedmann Immer] especially has a major voice out front, almost this could be a Trumpet Concerto,
Here's the Freiberg Baroque Orchestra playing the first movement of Concerto 2 on YouTube.
