The French Suites

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Richard Egarr

The French Suites are a collection of six keyboard suites by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed around 1722–1725. They exemplify Baroque dance-suite forms, incorporating French dance rhythms and ornamentation alongside Bach's contrapuntal keyboard writing, and they occupy a central place in his keyboard output and in the development of Baroque keyboard repertoire.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    French Suite no. 1 in D minor, BWV 812: I. Allemande
    4:14
  2. 2.
    French Suite no. 1 in D minor, BWV 812: II. Courante
    2:00
  3. 3.
    French Suite no. 1 in D minor, BWV 812: III. Sarabande
    2:42
  4. 4.
    French Suite no. 1 in D minor, BWV 812: IV. Menuet I & II
    3:18
  5. 5.
    French Suite no. 1 in D minor, BWV 812: V. Gigue
    3:03
  6. 6.
    French Suite no. 2 in C minor, BWV 813: I. Allemande
    3:20
  7. 7.
    French Suite no. 2 in C minor, BWV 813: II. Courante
    2:11
  8. 8.
    French Suite no. 2 in C minor, BWV 813: III. Sarabande
    3:29
  9. 9.
    French Suite no. 2 in C minor, BWV 813: IV. Air
    1:26
  10. 10.
    French Suite no. 2 in C minor, BWV 813: V. Menuet I
    1:29
  11. 11.
    French Suite no. 2 in C minor, BWV 813: VI. Gigue
    2:25
  12. 12.
    French Suite no. 3 in B minor, BWV 814: I. Allemande
    3:49
  13. 13.
    French Suite no. 3 in B minor, BWV 814: II. Courante
    2:17
  14. 14.
    French Suite no. 3 in B minor, BWV 814: III. Sarabande
    3:18
  15. 15.
    French Suite no. 3 in B minor, BWV 814: IV. Menuet I & II (Trio)
    3:44
  16. 16.
    French Suite no. 3 in B minor, BWV 814: V. Angloise (Gavotte)
    1:42
  17. 17.
    French Suite no. 3 in B minor, BWV 814: VI. Gigue
    2:28

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    French Suite no. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 815: I. Allemande
    3:29
  2. 3.
    French Suite no. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 815: II. Courante
    2:03
  3. 4.
    French Suite no. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 815: III. Sarabande
    3:16
  4. 5.
    French Suite no. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 815: IV. Gavotte
    1:23
  5. 6.
    French Suite no. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 815: V. Air
    1:52
  6. 7.
    French Suite no. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 815: VI. Menuet
    0:55
  7. 8.
    French Suite no. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 815: VII. Gigue
    2:39
  8. 9.
    French Suite no. 5 in G major, BWV 816: I. Allemande
    3:34
  9. 10.
    French Suite no. 5 in G major, BWV 816: II. Courante
    1:53
  10. 11.
    French Suite no. 5 in G major, BWV 816: III. Sarabande
    4:16
  11. 12.
    French Suite no. 5 in G major, BWV 816: IV. Gavotte
    1:06
  12. 13.
    French Suite no. 5 in G major, BWV 816: V. Bourrée
    1:28
  13. 14.
    French Suite no. 5 in G major, BWV 816: VI. Loure
    2:13
  14. 15.
    French Suite no. 5 in G major, BWV 816: VII. Gigue
    3:56
  15. 16.
    French Suite no. 6 in E major, BWV 817: I. Allemande
    3:45
  16. 17.
    French Suite no. 6 in E major, BWV 817: II. Courante
    1:42
  17. 18.
    French Suite no. 6 in E major, BWV 817: III. Sarabande
    2:54
  18. 19.
    French Suite no. 6 in E major, BWV 817: IV. Gavotte
    1:06
  19. 20.
    French Suite no. 6 in E major, BWV 817: V. Polonaise
    1:39
  20. 21.
    French Suite no. 6 in E major, BWV 817: VI. Menuet
    1:17
  21. 22.
    French Suite no. 6 in E major, BWV 817: VII. Bourrée
    1:49
  22. 23.
    French Suite no. 6 in E major, BWV 817: VIII. Gigue
    2:51
  23. 24.
    French Suite no. 2 in C minor, BWV 813: V. Menuet II
    1:17
  24. 25.
    French Suite no. 2 in C minor, BWV 813/II: II. Courante (after the autograph, Klavierbüchlein 1722)
    1:50
  25. 26.
    French Suite no. 2 in C minor, BWV 813/II: II. Courante (after the copy by H. N. Gerber)
    1:57
  26. 27.
    French Suite no. 2 in C minor, BWV 813/II: II. Courante (after the copy by Anna Magdalena Bach, Klavierbüchlein 1725)
    2:04

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