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  • The celebrity thing is already going full bore. iTunes just uploaded the recordings Anne made for Sony, including: • Prokofiev Violin Concertos • American Album • Lalo/Bruch: Symphonie espagnole/Scottish Fantasy • Franck/Strauss: Violin Sonatas

    Laurence Vittes: Nexus of the Arts: Anne Akiko Meyers, Keith Olbermann and Antonious Stradivarious Laurence Vittes 2010

  • The chamber concerto 'Dumbarton Oaks' is strongly influenced by Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.

    Stravinsky Crashes the Party Stuart Isacoff 2011

  • Johann Sebastian Bach compiled what are today called the Brandenburg Concertos as showpieces and probable calling cards for employment with the Margrave of Brandenburg.

    Rodney Punt: The Brandenburgs Are Their Brand: LACO's Six Concertos of J.S. Bach Rodney Punt 2011

  • Johann Sebastian Bach compiled what are today called the Brandenburg Concertos as showpieces and probable calling cards for employment with the Margrave of Brandenburg.

    Rodney Punt: The Brandenburgs Are Their Brand: LACO's Six Concertos of J.S. Bach Rodney Punt 2011

  • Fischer and the ensemble have just released a recording of the Concertos on Decca as well.

    Right On 2009

  • Some of his most famous works include: The Brandenburg Concertos, the Well-Tempered Clavier, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (often played at Halloween), and The Art of Fugue.

    Five People Born on March 21 | myFiveBest 2010

  • Yet on the basis of this research, you would be hard put to distinguish music from other powerful stimuli variously soothing or alarming, never mind Bach from Bing Crosby or The St. John Passion from The Brandenburg Concertos.

    Striking a False Note Raymond Tallis 2011

  • Among his four magnificent orchestral suites second in popularity to his "Brandenburg Concertos" only the first had survived in what's likely its original form.

    Restoring Bach Brett Campbell 2010

  • "From a purely musical point of view, the oboe makes much more sense than either violin or flute," says Swarthmore College professor Michael Marissen, who has written a book on Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos."

    Restoring Bach Brett Campbell 2010

  • No answer. . .but I could see lights gleaming from the kitchen at the end of the hall, and I could hear music playing, one of the Brandenburg Concertos, which were undoubtedly more edifying than the polka tunes my kids enjoyed.

    The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010

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