Andras Schiff - J.S. Bach: English Suites, BWV 806-11 (1990)

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Title: J.S. Bach: English Suites, BWV 806-11
Year Of Release: 1990
Label: Decca
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:08:54
Total Size: 448 Mb
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Tracklist:

CD 1:
English Suite No.1 in A major, BWV 806 [21'17]
[1] 1. Prélude [2'13]
[2] 2. Allemande [4'04]
[3] 3. Courante I [1'30]
[4] 4. Courante II avec deux Doubles [2'58]
[5] 5. Sarabande [3'56]
[6] 6. Bourrée I & Bourrée II [4'11]
[7] 7. Gigue [2'25]
English Suite No.3 in G minor, BWV 808 [18'23]
[8] 1. Prélude [3'19]
[9] 2. Allemande [3'14]
[10] 3. Courante [2'02]
[11] 4. Sarabande et les agréments de la même Sarabande [3'45]
[12] 5. Gavotte I alternativement & Gavotte II ou la Musette [3'21]
[13] 6. Gigue [2'41]
English Suite No.5 in E minor, BWV 810 [21'28]
[14] 1. Prélude [5'51]
[15] 2. Allemande [3'27]
[16] 3. Courante [1'59]
[17] 4. Sarabande [3'33]
[18] 5. Passepied I en Rondeau & Passepied II [3'19]
[19] 6. Gigue [3'18]

CD 2:
English Suite No.2 in A minor, BWV 807 [21'01]
[1] 1. Prelude [4'54]
[2] 2. Allemande [3'16]
[3] 3. Courante [1'38]
[4] 4. Sarabande et les agréments de la même Sarabande [3'48]
[5] 5. Bourrée I alternativement & Bourrée II [4'01]
[6] 6. Gigue [3'23]
English Suite No.4 in F, BWV 809 [19'57]
[7] 1. Prélude [4'28]
[8] 2. Allemande [3'23]
[9] 3. Courante [1'29]
[10] 4. Sarabande [3'57]
[11] 5. Menuet I & Menuet II [3'18]
[12] 6. Gigue [3'21]
English Suite No.6 in D minor, BWV 811 [26'23]
[13] 1. Prélude [8'38]
[14] 2. Allemande [4'07]
[15] 3. Courante [2'14]
[16] 4. Sarabande & 5. Double [3'40]
[17] 6. Gavotte I & Gavotte II [3'59]
[18] 7. Gigue [3'44]

Performers:
Andras Schiff, piano

With Glenn Gould's untimely death in 1982, the time was ripe for András Schiff's formidable gifts as a Bach interpreter to garner international attention--and rightfully so. Although Schiff admired and was influenced by Gould, he approaches Bach on the piano quite differently. For instance, Schiff's warm, luminous tone contrasts with Gould's gaunt, stripped-down sonority, drawing inspiration from the grandeur and flexibility of tempo that typifies Bach performances from pianists such as Edwin Fischer and Miecyslaw Horszowski. At the same time, Schiff always has kept up with the latest scholarship in regard to embellishment and articulation. As you listen to Schiff in the Partitas, English Suites, French Suites, and the B minor French Overture, you can't help but notice both the way the pianist's tempos accurately pinpoint the music's dance origins and the improvisatory feeling with which he imbues the ornaments on the repeats. -- Jed Distler