J.S. Bach: 6 English Suites, BWV 806-811

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
February 7, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Sebastian Bach
    • PERFORMER
      Wolfgang Rubsam
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 07, 2025
    • UPC
      5028421975542
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI97554
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    2. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    3. III. Courante I

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    4. IV. Courante II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    5. V. Double I

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    6. VI. Double II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    7. VII. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    8. VIII. Bourree I

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    9. IX. Bourree II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    10. X. Bourree I (da capo)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    11. XI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    12. I. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    13. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    14. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    15. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    16. V. Bourree I

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    17. V. Bourree II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    18. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    19. I. Prélude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    20. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    21. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    22. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    23. V. Gavotte I and II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    24. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    25. I. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    26. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    27. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    28. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    29. V. Menuett I

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    30. V. Menuet II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    31. V. Menuet I (da capo)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    32. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    33. I. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    34. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    35. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    36. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    37. V. Passepied I

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    38. V. Passepied II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    39. V. Passepied I (da capo)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    40. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    41. I. Prelude

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    42. II. Allemande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    43. III. Courante

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    44. IV. Sarabande

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    45. IV. Double

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    46. V. Gavotte I

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    47. V. Gavotte II

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    48. V. Gavotte I (da capo)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam

    49. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Wolfgang Rübsam


A veteran Bach specialist continues his Bach odyssey on Brilliant Classics with a new recording of the English Suites. Previous volumes in this series have met with wide critical acclaim. Of the French Suites, Jed Distler wrote in Classics Today: 'a splendid new recording... these lovely performances memorably showcase Rubsam's sensitive and poetic side.' While Rubsam has been playing and recording Bach's music for over half a century, he brings a fresh perspective, both to the works themselves and his approach to them, by performing on a lute-harpsichord, known in German as a lautenwerk. Of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier, the Gramophone reviewer remarked: 'Like his other Bach recordings using the Lautenwerk, including the French Suites, the so-called Lute Suites and beautiful arrangements of the Cello Suites and Violin Sonatas and Partitas, these are revelatory... one thing's for certain: you'll never listen to any of Bach's music in the same way again.' Bach himself owned a pair of Lautenwerk, and so Rubsam is returning this music to the scale on which it was conceived: more intimate than nearly all the competition on record, perfectly suited to close studio recording and domestic listening. The Suites themselves are hardly English in character (Bach probably wrote them for an English patron) but rather French, more developed in scale and expression than the earlier French Suites, especially in the Third and Sixth of the set. Movements such as the Overture to No.2 and the Sarabande of No.3 have inspired some of the greatest keyboard musicians - on various instruments - to sound the depths of their artistry. Wolfgang Rubsam does so here, yet with a humility that draws the ear back to Bach himself, to the wondrous intricacy of his polyphony, and his particular genius for embodying the character of a dance through the natural shape of his melodies. - The complete 6 English Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), played on the lute-harpsichord by Wolfgang Rubsam. - There is little "English" about these suites. Their name might have been given as a tribute to Charles Diepart, whose 6 English Suites were very popular at the time. Bach's English Suites follow the traditional sequence of dance movements of the Suite. The writing is mature and technically demanding. The English Suites, along with the French Suites and Partitas, are part of the standard keyboard repertoire. - Wolfgang Rubsam is internationally known as an authoritative Bach interpreter, from recordings of the organ and harpsichord on several different labels. This new recording is played on a lute-harpsichord, an instrument that Bach would have had at home for both music-making in the family and for teaching. The touch required and the sonority produced is delicate, subtly shaded and closely related in it's effect to the music of Bach's French contemporaries, whose music he knew well, such as Francois Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Louis Marchand. The sound is warmer, as it has gut strings and no dampers.