Bach: Concerts Avec Plusieurs Instruments Vol 5 / Cafe Zimmermann

BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3. Harpsichord Concerto in F, BWV 1056. Brandenburg Concerto No. 6. Concerto in d for 3 Violins, BWV 1063 • Café Zimmermann (period instruments) • ALPHA 168 (58:31) This is the fifth, and presumably penultimate, release in Café Zimmerman’s imaginative and possibly unprecedented presentation of Bach’s “concerts avec plusiers instrumnents,” better known to us as his Brandenburg Concertos . Bach assembled the set in a fruitless attempt to solicit patronage from the Margrave of Brandenburg, whose reward for neglecting these unparalleled masterpieces is to have his title (if not his name) remembered for all time. Café Zimmermann, a small, multinational period-instrument ensemble based in France, is raising Bach’s ante by releasing the Brandenburg s one per disc, along with most of the other concertos—some in reconstructions—and the orchestral suites. I haven’t heard the first three discs in the series, but I did have the privilege of a