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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: JS Bach (1685-1750): Eisenach and Ohrdruf

JS Bach (1685-1750)

Eisenach and Ohrdruf

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, JS Bach (1685-1750), Eisenach and Ohrdruf

Donald Macleod accompanies JS Bach on his travels from place to place throughout his life.

Donald Macleod accompanies JS Bach on his travels from place to place throughout his life. Today, Bach’s early years in the towns of Eisenach and Ohrdruf.

Donald Macleod draws alongside JS Bach as he travels from place to place throughout his life. In today’s programme we trace Bach’s life until the age of 15, the period in which he was living in the town of Eisenach and, after the death of his father, in Ohrdruf with his older brother. These are the years of his education, such as it was, when his excellence as an organist and a singer was first recognised.


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La Chapelle Royale
Collegium Vocale
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major
European Brandenburg Ensemble 
Trevor Pinnock, conductor

Concerto in C major 
i.Allegro
Marie-Claire Alain, organ

Partita No.1 
i Praeludium
ii Allemande
iii Corrente
Glenn Gould, piano

Widerstehe doch der Sunde
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
Arcangelo 
Jonathan Cohen, conductor

Capriccio on the Departure of his Most Beloved Brother 
Wolfgang Rubsam, piano

Composer of the Week: JS Bach (1685-1750)

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