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BWV 812-817;Johan Sebastian Bach Suites; Harpsichord; Joseph Payne
Music:Classical:MP3:Bach:Suite
The French Suites, BWV 812-817, are six suites which Johann Sebastian Bach wrote for the clavier (harpsichord or clavichord) between the years of 1722 and 1725.[1] The suites were later given the name 'French' (first recorded usage by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg in 1762) as a means of contrast with the English Suites (whose title is likewise a later appellation). The name was popularised by Bach's biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who wrote in his 1802 biography of Bach, "One usually calls them French Suites because they are written in the French manner."[2] This claim, however, is inaccurate: like Bach's other suites, they follow a largely Italian convention.[3]
Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812
List:
1-Prelude
2-Allemande
3-Courante
4-Sarabande
5-Menuet I/II
6-Gigue
Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV 813
List:
1-Prelude
2-Allemande
3-Courante
4-Sarabande
5-Air
6-Menuet
7-Menuet - Trio (in BWV 813a)
8-Gigue
Suite No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814
List:
1-Allemande
2-Courante
3-Sarabande
4-Anglaise -- Bach originally titled this movement Gavotte (a dance type very similar to the Angloise). He may have changed the name because this movement lacks the gavotte's characteristic two quarter-note upbeat.[7]
5-Menuet - This was used as "Theme C" in the popular game Tetris
6-Trio.
7-Gigue
Suite No. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 815
List:
1-Allemande
2-Courante
3-Sarabande
4-Gavotte
5-Menuet
6-Air
7-Gigue
Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816
List:
1-Allemande
2-Courante
3-Sarabande
4-Gavotte
5-Bourrée
6-Loure
7-Gigue
Suite No. 6 in E major, BWV 817
List:
1-Allemande
2-Courante
3-Sarabande
4-Gavotte
5-Polonaise
6-Bourrée
7-Menuet
8-Gigue
