Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 edited by Karl Geiringer for a publication of the score by Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag. Universal Edition later published Mandyczewski's version in a new revision by . Heinrich Besseler was Bärenreiter's editor for the "Brandenburg Concertos" in the New Bach Edition (Neue Bach-Ausgabe, NBA). In 1959 Bärenreiter published August Wenzinger's performance edition of the fifth "Brandenburg Concerto", based on the 1956 New Bach Edition Urtext, and with a continuo realisation by . Previously, Bärenreiter had also published performance material of the concerto with a continuo realisation by Günter Raphael. Bärenreiter published Alfred Dürr's edition of the early BWV 1050a version of
Brandenburg Concertos of a trio sonata for two violas and continuo, although the cello has a decorated version of the continuo bass line. In the last movement, the spirit of the gigue underlies everything, as it did in the finale of the fifth concerto. Because King Frederick William I of Prussia was not a significant patron of the arts, Christian Ludwig seems to have lacked the musicians in his Berlin ensemble to perform the concertos. The full score was left unused in the Margrave's library until his death in 1734, when it was sold for 24 groschen (as of 2014, about US$24)