J.S. Bach: The French Suites (2 CDs) beethoven a fine blend is achieved

a fine blend is achieved

Centred on Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices – revelatory and influential listening for a whole host of later composers – this mosaic of reworkings

it’s actually a well-chosen mix of old and new from Bach and Praetorius to Gabriel Jackson

just a few years later

Revered by his contemporaries as the ‘Orpheus of our time’

J.S. Bach: The French Suites (2 CDs) beethoven a fine blend is achievedSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO The French Suites have a special place among Bachs keyboard works. Besides containing music as profound and poetic as any he wrote, their textures have a transparency and sparkle that reflect a move towards the galant style fashionable among Bachs contemporaries. In this, the third instalment of Peter Hills acclaimed Bach series, Hill has chosen to follow the suites with his own completion of Mozarts Suite in C,