Bruce had Bach on the brain when putting together this week's Puzzler. To get a taste of the real thing, we hear Andras Schiff play the Sarabande from Bach's English Suite No. 4.
They’re called Bach’s English Suites, but no one really knows why. Bach never went to England, and the music sounds more French than anything else. But when Rochelle Sennet plays the English Suite No.
Bach’s “English Suites” are among his most diverting music for the keyboard, where a delight in patterns and brilliant finger-work crowds out a severe contrapuntal approach. Bach’s encyclopedic ...
Although Zhu-Xiao Mei’s somewhat under-the-radar engagement with Bach’s keyboard output has so far encompassed the Goldberg Variations, Well-Tempered Clavier, Art of Fugue, Partitas, French Suites, ...