0:07 Allegro 8:34 Siciliano 13:56 Allegro

Having practiced some classical trumpet, I have no idea how anyone can coax such a tender lovely sound out of a double reed historical oboe. Emma is truly an artist of the highest order.

The lead violinist is outstanding.

Sublime music. If mankind never produced anything else of worth or beauty, the music of Bach alone would be sufficient justification for our existence.

One day, when concerts are played in front of an audience and people are allowed to travel again, I have to see the NBS at least once live, they are such a great inspiration for my own musicianship, every single piece they play is a joy for my ears!!

... and don't forget to applaud the unseen audio folks who produced this truly exquisite recording. Headphones are highly recommended!

LOVE the sound of the historical Oboe. It's like a completely different instrument. I know they have their limitations, but what a sound! Just lovely.

This made me cry. I've come back to Bach and Baroque music after decades away, and I continue to be devastated (both emotionally and sonically) by his music. Such a beautiful performance.

'Goosebumps' Music. I remember as a child hearing this and being almost hypnotised - still am 50 years later!

The Oboe fits in magnificently with that orchestra. Love the sound

I love this concerto. It's so optimistic. Bach engages the emotions on a deeper level, so welcome after a year of isolation that we've all been experiencing globally. Thank you Bach. You live on forever through your music ♥️

This music somehow manages to affect me in the most simple yet potent way. After listening to it this morning I couldn’t help but grin and whistle it to myself as I walked down the street. This piece didn’t crash over me in great waves of emotion like his passions did, but their respective roles are equally important. I am very grateful for this music that reminds me of all the beauty in those simple moments.

Emma Black is so brilliant in this performance.. beautiful tonality, and expressive delivery of every line, flowing an d blending perfectly with others.. goosebumps! ;)

Encore un concert d'une très haute tenue. Le sens de l'écoute. Le phrasé. L'entente parfaite du groupe. Le plaisir manifeste de jouer ensemble. Et cette musique d'une richesse presque insondable. Un régal. Encore une référence. Woooaaa !👏

Every time I listen to a Bach concerto (admittedly, very infrequently) I have to smile at the bouncy harpsichord just happily doing its thing underneath all the more featured instruments. My mind has made in inextricable connection between the harpsichord and Bach, for whatever reason.

i really wish this was on spotify so i could listen to it more often

Hah, and she's not even playing the "automatic oboe" -- no keys! Just stunning. Absolute mastery. Brava!

It truly amazes me how a septet sounds so rich and nearly as full as an entire orchestra 😊❤

Absolutely delightful. I love Bach's music and these musicians, these artists perform it so beautifully.

Thanks to the Netherlands Bach Society - that is true love for music!

It has been more than 40 years since I heard this Siciliano for the first time. I was living in Belgium, and a light snow was falling. It was the perfect aural landscape. On hearing this magical sound, one is frozen in time, with no desire to return to the madness of daily life. I am so grateful for this splendid performance by Emma Black and the Netherlands Bach Society.

Mein Gott, wie schön ist das! Hervorragendes Ensemble!

Simply spectacular! , " BACH is the greatest miracle of the music" words of Richard Wagner.

Wunderbares Konzert. Berührende Interpretation. Diese Musik kennt keine Umwege und sucht niemals Schranken, sondern öffnet den Sinn für die Wahrnehmung des wirklich Wichtigen. Vielen Dank der Netherlands Bach Society.

Yes, certainly eternal music, performed by THE finest musicians and a great soloist too, but please give also a round of applause for the sound quality as well as for the ‘Rembrandtesque’ camera crew...., awesome, many many thanks, to all involved....

Stunning. All of you at the Netherlands Bach Society are to be commended. I have never heard Bach played better, everything you have done is of superior quality.

What is your favourite KZfaq channel? -Netherlands Bach Society of course!

Those old-fashioned instruments really do make great sound. Splendid performance!

Just come to the conclusion that Bach is my ‘salvation’ in this turbulent moments our beloved Planet and Humanity is passing through...gratitude for NBS 🙏🏻 for sharing each of Bach’s masterpieces with the world! It’s strengthening and comforting for the heart and soul♥️

Yes..thank you to the artist of the BACH SOCIETY of NETHERLAND Brynjar Hoff

How can 211 people not like this video???? Bravíssimo!!!!!!

I just came across this tonight and now I am sitting here, spellbound. What a playing! And I swear, I have never heard this Oboe Concerto before. Thank you, Netherlands Bach Society!

All is so right with the world when I have the privilege of starting my day right here. Such deep thanks to all: musicians, sound and camera crews. What a blessing you are! 🙏🏻

Dieses Ensemble gibt einem soviel Freude, Verbindung zu unserer eigenen Tiefe und Spritualität durch die wunderbare Musik von Bach.Danke für dieses grosse Geschenk !

at times where good music and good conversation are hard to find this is just refreshing ... Congratulations!!

Stunning, and the sound on earphones is beyond unbelievably. Everything by this group is a gift, especially since Covid hit the world.

Thank you Emma Black ....fellow Australian. You are a true artist .🥰

That level of musicality is the best accomplishment anyone can do in life.

I absolutely love this music, the oboe's sweet tune makes me happy, thanks Bacherenigning!

That black double bass is a beauty.

If Bach did not exist, it would have to be invented. Greetings from the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil!

The best music never dies...

She does a very nice job holding it down. This is not an easy piece to play. She balances out ornamentation very well. Not too flashy, not too "style rustico". I noted that she had that quiet moment after ending her solo in the Siciliano that some of us get when we play Bach music. The man had the uncanny ability to reach into your head. Doing so while playing is more profound. The whole group plays well, in a balanced and mature way.

It's great to have ensembles like the NBS with such a robust online presence. Helping more people find comfort in Bach's music every day.

I don't know which tugs at me more: The exquisite tone of the Baroque oboe, or the way in which each phrase Bach wrote comes to a resolution. So I'll settle for both, and thanks to NBS for allowing me to experience both in this lovely small-ensemble version!

Thrilling oboe playing. What an inspiration!

I've never seen an oboe like this before. I think the instrument stayed with your youth. It's amazing. From S.Korea.

Thank you Emma Black. A wonderfull variation of BWV 1053. I am convinced Mr. Bach would have loved it as it is in his style. I admire you of the Netherlands Bach Society. You are doing a great Job in the reconstruction of JSBs work. Thank you all. Hans Wagenmakers

Wunder geschehen, wenn Menschen zusammenkommen und an einer großen Sache ihren Teil hinzufügen. Man kann es hier hören. Vielen Dank!

Sólo puedo agardecer a ustedes, Netherlands Bach Society, por el tremendo esfuerzo que significa cultivar el legado de J.S. Bach y traer su música hasta mi hogar.

What a gift to mankind. Thank you so much for sharing

Even considering that my own musical abilities are beneath humble, I still feel that I am a part of the Netherlands Bach Society. The music, the cinematography-which Rembrandt would have admired, and all of the elegant, attractive players make this channel my absolute favorite. Gracias de mi rinconcito en España.

I enjoy smaller ensembles like this because you can see and hear the communication between players. I am a particularly mediocre musician, but the chance to interact with other musicians is a great joy.

bach's writing for oboe is my favorite of his. found mostly in the cantatas and the orchestral suites

Ethereal...soothing....in this crazy covid world, we need this music and the NBS so badly! Thanks so much for providing this moment of sanity.

Fantastic! This is my favourite Bach concerto. Well done Nederlanders 👍🏼👍🏼

Good morning all! I just came across the NBS while doing an internet search for Vivaldi Spring. As Spring 2021 is one month from today, I was hopeful, and Vivaldi popped into my head. Just listened to NBS interpretation of Vivaldi's Spring and Summer, and was blown away! Thank you NBS! So glad I found you.

Always here to hear (and see) beautiful music. Thank you NBS for such true beauty.🎶❤️

Love it! My dad's family were French and he played an accordian..... brings me joy. Thank you.

I enjoy this interpretation of Emma Black and the baroque orchestra. Congratulations to the Netherlands Bach Society once again! ❤️🎵👏

I absolutely love the oboe, but I have to say that I prefer the period oboe even more with its warmer and even more haunting sound.

Maravilloso conjunto Neerlandés y su oboe excelente y maravilloso !!!

I assume the public were ecstatic, but I wish they had held for two seconds before clapping, to allow the full roundness of the sound to sink in. What a splendid performance. Oh and NBS already did 1055 in harpsichord, but it's glorious in oboe d'amore! One day maybe

Beautiful! The clear voice of the oboe emphasises some lovely phrasing that the keyboard version tends to obscure.

Wonderful performance- you guys never cease to outdo yourselves. Thank you for sharing it on KZfaq.

The siciliano is so sad. After only a few bars you can feel your heart being almost literally gripped and clutched. The music immediately takes me to Bach's Golgotha.

Unbelievably beautiful

Oboe barroco ; que belleza !! Gracias a Netherlands Bach Society !

Thank you so much NBS and Emma Black for this beautiful and inspiring concerto.

I felt cozy listening to this spectacular performance Bach's works are an integral part of my life There is something extraordinary in their splendid performances From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

What a breath of fresh air. Thank you and Bravi tutti.

Qué hermosa composición de J. S. Bach!, aquí escuchando y disfrutando ésta bella obra, hasta mis 3 perritos, que siempre son muy activos, entraron en profunda paz, lo perciben, el que no sienta conmoción al escuchar a Bach definitivamente no tiene cerebro, sólo tiene médula espinal, y así anda por la vida. Saludos desde la CdMx 🇲🇽

Utterly Beautiful... Thank you so much Netherlands Bach Society!

A have a dream. To see the 9th Symphony Beethoven live. I got tickets to Viena last June. Canceled. Now I added a new one dream. The NBS live too. Fortunately they have this wonderful You tube channel.

I love the 2nd and 3rd movements so much!! Can’t count how many times I was amazed by how powerful music is while watching videos from this channel. Thanks to Bach and thanks to Netherland Bach Society 🙌

The original performance standards bring out more of the power of this concerto than earlier recordings. Keep up all of your wonderful work guys!

NBS - superb as always. Thank you from Ireland.

How beautifully the violin comes in at 05:29.

Brava Maestra Black. Beautiful playing! Terrific performance!

Absolutely wonderful oboe concert Thanks NBS🍃

The NBS is one of my favorite groups. Bach, and amazing musicians. I recently started listening to the Baroque Oboe. It has such a richer sound than a typical oboe. This remake of a keyboard piece is so beautiful words can't give it justice. Anazing work!

Thanks. You all are wonderful for sharing your talent and the best music ever written. 👏👏👏👏👏👏😍

Lovely performance with outstanding Australian soloist Emma Black. Congratulations Emma!

Always a pleasure hearing this wonderful ensamble before bed time so relaxing 🤔💯🙏

THIS TOTALLY NATURALLY WOOD INSTRUMENT SOUNDS MAGNIFICENT.

This piece of beauty is a joy forever!

Love it! The resonance -> sooooo satisfying! Thank you NBS! :-)

A few notes about this concert BWV 1053 All three movements of this concerto exist in parallel versions in two cantatas, BWV 169 (in D major and B minor) and BWV 49 (in E major), which were first performed within two weeks of each other ir 1726.In the cantatas, the solo instrument was the organ, with a range of f#°-c#3 But if two low passages are excepted that were not probably part of the original concerto, the range becomes, bo-c#3. This is exactly a semitone lower than the standard range of the hautboy. The solo line also allows places to breathe. Several writers have therefore suggested that this concerto was originally conceived for hautboy a semitone higher, in E flat major. Rifkin reconstructed the piece for hautboy in E flat and recorded it in May 1983 with Stephen Hammer playing the solo. On the basis of copying mistakes in the original parts, Rifkin's argument for E flat is convincing. Still, if an hautboy was the original solo instrument, it seems unlikely that the piece was originally conceived in this key because (with the exception of the second movement, which fits the hautboy well in C minor) it is so awkward and difficult. E flat is a semitone removed from the hautboy's primary scale of D major, with all that that entails in the way of cross-fingerings, etc. It is a particularly challenging key on a technical revel, notably because of the presence of Ab, produced by half-closing hole 3. It was no doubt because of its technical problems that E flat major was rarely used for hautboy solos in the eighteenth century. Bach used it in less than 3 per cent of his hautboy solos, and-when he did, as in BWV 187/5, he exploited the key's unusual characteristics. In this concerto, however, E flat acts merely to create obstacles. It is difficult to see why Bach would have chosen this key when he originally conceived the piece. On the other hand, there is a key that works well: F major, a step higher. In F, with two more natural fingerings per octave, the piece is freer in sound, and the difficulties caused by the presence of Ebs and Abs are eliminated. But there is a further twist. The solo line sounds as good or better on an hautbois d'amour as on the treble hautboy. And when the hautbois d'amour plays in fingered F/D minor/F, it sounds in D/B minor/D, which are the keys of two of the three movements in the cantata versions. It is probably not a coincidence that the two fast movements in the cantata versions have prominent parts for hautbois d'amour. From the beginning of the piece, the first violin's arpeggiated introductory figure sounds better (of course) in D than E flat. In both extant versions (the concerto and the cantata), the last movement is in E. If it is transposed down a step to D, there is a passage in the violin parts that extends below the bottom note of the violin. But this passage succeeds equally well an octave higher; Bach had to keep it low in the organ version because an hautbois d'amour doubled the first violin, and would otherwise have ascended to fingered f3, beyond the instrument's range. In the harpsichord concerto, without the con- straint of the doubling wind part, Bach rewrote this section in a lighter, airier manner, but understandably kept the strings in the lower octave in order not to cover the harpsichord (a consideration that was not necessary for an hautbois d'amour soloist). In fingered F, there is one note in the organ version that exceeds the hautbois d'amour's normal upper range. The analogous measure in the harpsichord concerto takes this note down an octave, along with the first notes of the first and second beats. This is a curious anomaly; on a harpsichord, there is no physical or musical reason to have gone down an octave at this point. The answer is probably that the part was copied from an original for hautbois d'amour, where the octave break was necessary. Bars 13-14, 23-4, and 66-7 in the first movement contain some independent (though unimportant) writing for winds that Bach probably added when arranging the movement for the cantata.

Stunning performance...just breathtakingly good...thank you

What a clear intro! It's attract me instantly. I wanna click the like button many times 👏👏👏

Oboists however did very well out of Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin, one of the most beautiful of all concertos in the classical repertory, with an adagio second movement that can just about break one's heart.

The instrument has a beautiful warm sound. BRAVA, BRAVA

So beautiful, so divine the sweet sound of Oboe, and when it is a work of Bach it becomes even more sublime. Thank you so much for always warming my soul!

Captivating! their control of melodic lines is just amazing.

Quanta nobiltà d'animo che traspare dalla musica di J.S.Bach ..Compositore divino. 💖🎶🎼🎻🎺 🎹

Well done NBS! This is played beautifully and at a SANE tempo! Thank you!

Wonderful playing an timeless music from the master.thank you for your craft.

Emma is amazing! What a beautiful Oboe, and sound! Doesn't she ever breathe?! Ha ha! Thank you for such beautiful music, so much character, and a joy to listen to!

What an incredible performance. Bravo!

I had the great pleasure recently of hearing Emma Black and Shunske Sato at a performance in Sydney with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.