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This album contains the French Suites by J.S. Bach, presented by Piano Classics, a label of Brilliant Classics.
“China’s premier interpreter of Bach”, is what International Piano Magazine called Yuan Sheng. A pupil of Solomon Mikowsky (Manhattan School of Music) and notably Rosalyn Tureck, Yuan Sheng extensively studied the performance practice of Baroque music. Equally, at home at the harpsichord, he has an instinctive feeling for the possibilities, sonorities, and touch of the instrument at hand, so that “the listener might easily have imagined the composer at the keyboard” (Boston Intelligencer).
The title is misleading: the English Suites are more ‘French’ in character than the French Suites, which are more characteristic of the Italian style. ‘By design, the composer is here less learned than in his other suites,’ remarked one early biographer, ‘and has mostly used a pleasing, more predominant melody.’ Just so, and the same is true of the pair of suites BWV 818 and 819 which fall outside the collection but belong with it in terms of style. To all of them Yuan Sheng brings considered tempi and precise articulation in the mould of Tureck. To Bach at his most uncomplicated, Sheng brings the virtues of simplicity and clarity.
Again Yuan Sheng draws the listener into his highly intelligent musical discourse, vibrant and moving, speaking through the medium of a modern Steinway piano.
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Artist: Yuan Sheng (piano)
Tracklist:
French Suite No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 812:
0:00:00 I. Allemande
0:04:05 II. Courante
0:06:17 III. Sarabande
0:09:43 IV. Menuet I & II
0:13:04 V. Gigue
French Suite No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813:
0:15:55 I. Allemande
0:18:52 II. Courante
0:21:05 III. Sarabande
0:24:29 IV. Air
0:26:03 V. Menuet I & II
0:29:24 VI. Gigue
French Suite No. 3 in B Minor, BWV 814:
0:31:48 I. Allemande
0:35:10 II. Courante
0:37:31 III. Sarabande
0:40:52 IV. Angloise
0:42:42 V. Menuet and Trio
0:46:17 VI. Gigue
French Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 815:
0:48:12 I. Allemande
0:51:29 II. Courante
0:53:19 III. Sarabande
0:56:21 IV. Gavotte
0:57:54 V. Menuet
0:58:47 VI. Air
1:00:27 VII. Gigue
French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816:
1:02:45 I. Allemande
1:05:52 II. Courante
1:07:33 III. Sarabande
1:12:40 IV. Gavotte
1:13:57 V. Bourée
1:15:22 VI. Loure
1:17:06 VII. Gigue
French Suite No. 6 in E Major, BWV 817:
1:20:39 I. Allemande
1:23:49 II. Courante
1:25:34 III. Sarabande
1:29:21 IV. Gavotte
1:30:34 V. Polonaise
1:32:02 VI. Menuet
1:33:18 VII. Bourée
1:34:55 VIII. Gigue
Suite in A Minor, BWV 818:
1:37:29 I. Allemande
1:41:08 II. Courante
1:42:33 III. Sarabande simple
1:45:56 IV. Sarabande double
1:48:31 V. Gigue
Suite in E-Flat Major, BWV 819:
1:51:08 I. Allemande
1:54:17 II. Courante
1:56:24 III. Sarabande
2:01:09 IV. Bourrée
2:02:55 V. Menuet I & II
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