Bach: French Suites, BWV 812-817 and French Overture, BWV 831

Description

This new edition of Bach's French Suites pairs these works with the large-scale French Overture in B Minor from the second part of the Clavier-Übung. It brings together on the one hand six essentially small-format keyboard suites of moderate difficulty and on the other the most extensive and substantial of Bach's sets of suites.

The player is provided with as clear and comprehensible a score as possible, and makes it easier to approach the work, while those of an academic bent can refer to the Editorial Report for a documentation of sources, editorial additions and ornaments of a comprehensiveness otherwise found only in critical complete editions.

Pieces

• French Suite No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 812
• French Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV 813
• French Suite No. 3 in B Minor, BWV 814
• French Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 815
• French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816
• French Suite No. 6 in E Major, BWV 817
• Overture in the French Style, BWV 831