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JS Bach: The French Suites

Peter Hill (piano)

JS Bach: The French Suites
Peter Hill never underestimates [the] challenge, and there's a confiding wisdom sustaining his latest Bachian foray. Trademark unshowy integrity, too, articulated through a silky translucent...

JS Bach: The French Suites

Peter Hill (piano)

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Peter Hill never underestimates [the] challenge, and there's a confiding wisdom sustaining his latest Bachian foray. Trademark unshowy integrity, too, articulated through a silky translucent...

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The French Suites have a special place among Bach’s keyboard works. Besides containing music as profound and poetic as any Bach wrote, their textures have a transparency and sparkle that reflects a move towards the galant style fashionable among Bach’s contemporaries. In this, the third instalment of Peter Hill’s acclaimed Bach series, Hill has chosen to follow the suites with his own completion of Mozart’s Suite in C, K399. With Bach and Handel as his models, this work epitomises Mozart’s fascination with Baroque music. Hill’s celebrated return to the studio with Delphian four years ago continues to reap rich artistic rewards, with a ‘Diapason d’Or’ and a recent Gramophone Award nomination for his premiere recording of Messiaen’s rediscovered La Fauvette passerinette; here in Bach, too, his abundant energy and passion are deeply informed by a lifetime of scholarship.

Contents and tracklist

I. Allemande
Track length3:39
II. Courante
Track length2:09
III. Sarabande
Track length3:33
IV. Minuets I & II
Track length3:12
V. Gigue
Track length4:10
I. Allemande
Track length3:03
II. Courante
Track length2:01
III. Sarabande
Track length3:09
IV. Air
Track length1:40
V. Minuets I & II
Track length3:00
VI. Gigue
Track length3:00
I. Allemande
Track length3:39
II. Courante
Track length2:13
III. Sarabande
Track length3:03
IV. Anglaise
Track length2:12
V. Minuet - Trio
Track length3:21
VI. Gigue
Track length2:13
I. Allemande
Track length2:57
II. Courante
Track length2:18
III. Sarabande
Track length2:45
IV. Gavotte
Track length1:18
V. Air
Track length2:03
VI. Minuet
Track length0:58
VII. Gigue
Track length2:25
I. Allemande
Track length3:22
II. Courante
Track length1:45
III. Sarabande
Track length5:11
IV. Gavotte
Track length1:13
V. Bourrée
Track length1:21
VI. Loure
Track length2:14
VII. Gigue
Track length3:24
I. Allemande
Track length2:51
II. Courante
Track length1:41
III. Sarabande
Track length3:25
IV. Gavotte
Track length1:23
V. Polonaise
Track length1:30
VI. Bourrée
Track length1:32
VII. Petite minuet
Track length1:20
VIII. Gigue
Track length2:34
I. Overture
Track length4:30
II. Allemande
Track length4:06
III. Courante
Track length2:51
IV. Sarabande (Completed P. Hill)
Track length1:58

Awards and reviews

February 2016

Peter Hill never underestimates [the] challenge, and there's a confiding wisdom sustaining his latest Bachian foray. Trademark unshowy integrity, too, articulated through a silky translucent tone and captured in an agreeably intimate recording
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