Bach: The English Suites, BWV 806 - BWV 811
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Carole Cerasi
The English Suites, BWV 806 - BWV 811
Johann Sebastian Bach
Label: Metronome Recordings Ltd
Catalogue No: METCD 1078
Discs: 1
The English Suites, BWV 806 - BWV 811
Johann Sebastian Bach
Label: Metronome Recordings Ltd
Catalogue No: METCD 1078
Discs: 1
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Recorded on a harpsichord by François-Etienne Blanchet II (Paris, 1757), restored and enlarged by Pascal Taskin (Paris, 1778), loaned by Kenneth Gilbert and recorded in the Musée des Beaux Arts, Chartres.
From the rarified and somewhat recherché music of Blasco de Nebra, Carole Cerasi turns her focus on a masterpiece of the repertoire for keyboards with this new recording of the English Suites.
The English Suites are the earliest of Bach’s three major collections of keyboard Suites. They were written in Weimar between 1708 and 1717 and are considerably more technically demanding than anything that had been written for harpsichord before in Germany.
It is not known exactly why they are called “English”: a copy once in the possession of the composer's son J.C.Bach – the London Bach is headed “pour les Anglois” -, but a more likely explanation is that they follow a suite form established by the composer Dieupart, who settled in London in 1700, and thus known to Bach as English.
From the rarified and somewhat recherché music of Blasco de Nebra, Carole Cerasi turns her focus on a masterpiece of the repertoire for keyboards with this new recording of the English Suites.
The English Suites are the earliest of Bach’s three major collections of keyboard Suites. They were written in Weimar between 1708 and 1717 and are considerably more technically demanding than anything that had been written for harpsichord before in Germany.
It is not known exactly why they are called “English”: a copy once in the possession of the composer's son J.C.Bach – the London Bach is headed “pour les Anglois” -, but a more likely explanation is that they follow a suite form established by the composer Dieupart, who settled in London in 1700, and thus known to Bach as English.