The Four Lute Suites

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & John Williams

The Four Lute Suites are a set of four suites composed by Johann Sebastian Bach around 1720. Written in the Baroque idiom, they adapt Bach's contrapuntal and harmonic language to the plucked-string lute repertoire and represent some of his few works for lute, illustrating his exploration of instrumental timbre and formal variation in his early 18th-century output.

The Four Lute Suites by Bach - album cover

First released: 1986

Guitar Baroque Classical

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1.
Suite no. 1 in E minor, BWV 996: I. Prelude
2:31
2.
Suite no. 1 in E minor, BWV 996: II. Allemande
2:00
3.
Suite no. 1 in E minor, BWV 996: III. Courante
2:34
4.
Suite no. 1 in E minor, BWV 996: IV. Sarabande
4:31
5.
Suite no. 1 in E minor, BWV 996: V. Bourrée
1:14
6.
Suite no. 1 in E minor, BWV 996: VI. Gigue
2:48
7.
Prelude, Fugue and Allegro, BWV 998
10:26
8.
Suite no. 2 in A minor (Originally C minor), BWV 997: I. Prelude. Fuga
9:21
9.
Suite no. 2 in A minor (Originally C minor), BWV 997: II. Sarabande
5:01
10.
Suite no. 2 in A minor (Originally C minor), BWV 997: III. Gigue - Double
5:47
11.
Suite no. 3 in A minor (Originally G minor), BWV 995: I. Prelude
5:17
12.
Suite no. 3 in A minor (Originally G minor), BWV 995: II. Allemande
3:08
13.
Suite no. 3 in A minor (Originally G minor), BWV 995: III. Courante
2:03
14.
Suite no. 3 in A minor (Originally G minor), BWV 995: IV. Sarabande
3:52
15.
Suite no. 3 in A minor (Originally G minor), BWV 995: V. Gavotte I & II
4:11
16.
Suite no. 3 in A minor (Originally G minor), BWV 995: VI. Gigue
2:14
17.
Suite no. 4 in E major, BWV 1006a: I. Prelude
4:26
18.
Suite no. 4 in E major, BWV 1006a: II. Loure
3:35
19.
Suite no. 4 in E major, BWV 1006a: III. Gavotte en Rondeau
2:49
20.
Suite no. 4 in E major, BWV 1006a: IV. Menuett I & II
4:19
21.
Suite no. 4 in E major, BWV 1006a: V. Bourée
1:51
22.
Suite no. 4 in E major, BWV 1006a: VI. Gigue
2:05
23.
Prelude in C minor and Fugue in G minor, BWV 999/1000
6:34