French Suites

Regular price $36.99
Label
Gramola Records
Release Date
July 17, 2026
Format
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Sebastian Bach
    • PERFORMER
      Wolfgang Brunner
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 17, 2026
    • UPC
      9003643993761
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GRAM99376
    • LABEL
      Gramola Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE

The soundboard is painted with flowers, fruits, and animals and decorated with a typical light-blue ornamental border. Around the soundboard, the walls are adorned with block-printed wallpaper. The lid contains a landscape painting, which was added later, an idyllic stream landscape with four staffage figures: The observer watches a boy gazing intently into the water, a young woman carrying provisions or something similar home, and a couple, who are also only visible from behind. A bridge and a mill enliven the rural scene. If the corresponding technical terms "soundboard," "ornamental border," or "lid" were missing, the reader would hardly associate this vivid, florid description with a keyboard instrument. In such a manner, the renowned harpsichordist and expert in historical performance practice and basso continuo, Wolfgang Brunner, describes the instrument dated 1628 by Andreas Ruckers, from the Flemish harpsichord-making dynasty of the Ruckers family, which is heard on this recording featuring the six French Suites by J. S. Bach.