J.S. Bach: The French Suites (2 CDs) beethoven it’s actually a well-chosen mix

it’s actually a well-chosen mix of old and new from Bach and Praetorius to Gabriel Jackson

Particularly beautiful are the sections for solo voices which are simply radiant

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just a few years later

J.S. Bach: The French Suites (2 CDs) beethoven it’s actually a well-chosen mixSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO The French Suites have a special place among Bachs keyboard works. Besides containing music as profound and poetic as any he wrote, their textures have a transparency and sparkle that reflect a move towards the galant style fashionable among Bachs contemporaries. In this, the third instalment of Peter Hills acclaimed Bach series, Hill has chosen to follow the suites with his own completion of Mozarts Suite in C,