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A handsome two-disc set of Bach’s French Suites is a fine way for Murray Perahia to inaugurate his new recording contract with DG. He says it took him a long time to find his own way of playing Bach ...

Harpsichordist Richard Egarr makes the point that if the French Suites are less popular than Bach’s other keyboard music, that’s possibly because they’re underestimated as more domestic, less grand ...

Bach never called his French Suites 'French'. In fact, they're more Italian in convention, and the Fifth is the most Italian of them all... He composed the collection between 1722 and 1725, as part of ...

Bach played on the piano has made a welcome comeback in recent years. Bernard Roberts, who has already recorded the ‘48’ and the Partitas, deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as András Schiff ...

(6) French Suites Alexandra Papastefanou, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Adagio Alexandra Papastefanou, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Fantasia Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Alexandra ...

At 80 this month, Vladimir Ashkenazy remains youthful, bright-eyed, quick of intelligence, and his playing of Bach is a mirror of the man. This latest recording (Ashkenazy no longer plays solo piano ...

No one has recorded longer for Decca than the fine pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, who turned 80 earlier this month. As well as a large celebratory offering of reissues, there is this one ...

For his earlier recording of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach (8/23), Mahan Esfahani used both a clavichord and a harpsichord, a sensible choice given the domestic origins of the music. In his ...

Hannah French explores Bach's Four Orchestral Suites, which although never published or seen as a collection in the composer's lifetime, contain some of his most enduring music. Show more Hannah ...

The horn section of the Oregon Symphony released its own CD in 1998. We'll hear them perform the Gavotte and Sarabande from Bach's "French Suites." (Centaur CRC 2344) 5:00 ...