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Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049

172017 min

This guide follows Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049 (1720) in three parts: Allegro, Andante and Presto (fugue).

Recording: Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan (1964)

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  1. I
  2. II
  3. III · Fugue
I0:02–7:56

. The opening ( 1) is followed by two stretches of , the German term for a that keeps spinning itself out, the second in G. A with hemiola, a rhythm in which the beat seems to shift from threes to twos, comes next. 1 begins the first passage for the , with two later episodes. At the end the opening music, up to the first , unchanged to the .

  1. 1
  2. I
II8:10–11:59
IIIFugue12:11–16:39

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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