Sophie Yates -Die Englischen Suiten BWV 806-811 -Chandos Records CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Disc 01
Suite I, BWV 806

01. "Prelude"

02. "Allemande"

03. "Courante I"

04. "Courante II avec deux Doubles"

05. "Sarabande"

06. "Bourr?e I - Bourr?e II - (Bourr?e I repetatur et claudatur)"

07. "Gigue"
Suite II, BWV 807

08. "Prelude"

09. "Allemande"

10. "Courante"

11. "Sarabande - Les agr?ments de la m?me Sarabande"

12. "Bourr?e I alternativeet - Bourr?e II -"

13. "Gigue - Da Capo (senza ripetizione) al Fine"
Suite III, BWV 808

14. "Prelude"

15. "Allemande"

16. "Courante"

17. "Sarabande - Les agr?ments de la m?me Sarabande"

18. "Gavotte alternativement - Gavotte II ou la Musette -"

19. "Gigue"

Disc 02
Suite IV, BWV 809

01. "Prelude. Vitement"

02. "Allemande"

03. "Courante"

04. "Sarabande"

05. "Menuet I - Menuet II - (Repetatur Menuet I)"

06. "Gigue"
Suite V, BWV 810

07. "Prelude"

08. "Allemande"

09. "Courante"

10. "Sarabande"

11. "Passepied I en Rondeau - Passepied II -"

12. "Gigue"
Suite VI, BWV 811

13. "Prelude. [ ] - Adagio - Allegro"

14. "Allemande"

15. "Courante"

16. "Sarabande - Double"

17. "Gavotte I - Gavotte II - (Repetatur Gavotte I)"

18. "Gigue"

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Bach Complete English Suites by Sophie Yates, released 15 October 2021. This version of Bach Complete English Suites comes as a 2xCD. -

There is no surviving autograph manuscript of Bach's 'English' Suites, and for such a set of magnificent pieces, an important and well-loved part of the baroque keyboard 'canon', surprisingly little is known about it's history. What we do know is that the suites are amongst Bach's earlier works - probably written in the second decade of the eighteenth century - and that the appellation 'English' was not given to them until the 1750s. A handwritten copy owned by Bach's youngest son, Johann Christian, bore the following inscription on the title page of the first suite: 'Fait pour les Anglois', and this seems to have given rise to the nickname that has identified them ever since. Another, if slightly more oblique, connection to Englishness appears through the French composer Charles Dieupart (c. 1667 - c. 1740), who had settled in London and worked at the Drury Lane Theatre. J.S. Bach copied out and studied Dieupart's Six Suittes de Clavessin of 1701, the form of which he then replicated in his 'English' Suites. Each suite begins with a substantial movement (called 'Ouverture' in Dieupart's case) which is followed by the traditional allemande, courante, sarabande, 'galanteries' and a final gigue. The works are presented here by Sophie Yates.

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CHAN0826

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