Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with a concertino consisting of three instruments. However, throughout the concerto the harpsichord takes the leading role among the soloists, with, for instance, a long solo passage for this instrument near the end of the first movement: neither of the other soloists has a comparable solo passage. In this sense the concerto has been called the first keyboard concerto ever written. Vivaldi, and other composers, had occasionally given solo passages to keyboard instruments in their concertos before Bach, but never had a concerto been written which gave the harpsichord a soloist role throughout on the scale of the fifth "Brandenburg
Jim Brandenburg His work has been included in many other magazines, such as "Life", "Newsweek", "The Smithsonian", and "GEO" and has been featured on all the major television and radio networks including ABC's Prime Time Live and CBS News Sunday Morning and Dateline NBC as well as National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Brandenburg was commissioned by the United States Postal Service to create a set of wildlife stamps. They were released on May 14, 1981. In 1980, Brandenburg learned of a population of wolves on Ellesmere Island who had not yet had the fear of man instilled into them. Brandenburg therefore