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Copenhagen Suite
SteepleChase Oct 1997
CD
$22.99

SHOSTAKOVICH: JAZZ SUITE 1 & 2
IMPORTS Apr 2006
CD
$15.99

SUITE NO1
DENOVALI RECORDS Nov 2019
Vinyl
$32.99

LULU SUITE DREI ORCHESTERSTUCKE
RCO LIVE HOLLAND Oct 2008
SACD
$21.99

Three Suites
Urtext Jan 1999
CD
$16.99

Suite No. 2, Capriccio Italien
Kontrapunkt Nov 1996
CD
$22.99

CITY SUITE
CELLAR LIVE Oct 2025
CD
$12.49

Time Traveler's Suite / Inon Barnatan

PENTATONE

$19.99 Nov 19, 2021

On his third PENTATONE album Time Traveler’s Suite, pianist Inon Barnatan redefines our notions of the suite by taking us on a journey through time and space, from Baroque pieces by Bach, Handel, Rameau and Couperin to more recent works by Ravel, Barber, Adès and Ligeti. The program culminates in Brahms’s ingenious Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. Inon Barnatan is one of the most admired pianists of his generation (New York Times). His complete recordings of Beethoven’s piano concertos together with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Alan Gilbert were released on PENTATONE in 2019 and 2020.

REVIEW:

The Time Traveler's Suite is a suite of a sort. One might call it a meta-suite, collecting short pieces that each reveal some new aspect of a coherent set that runs from the Baroque to the contemporary era and starts back again. This is the kind of program that can easily fly out of control, but Barnatan maintains a grip on it, both steely and thoughtful. It's an entirely original concept that is compellingly realized from beginning to end, and PentaTone's engineering work conveys the listener into the pianist's thoughts.

-- AllMusic.com (James Manheim)

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Time Traveler's Suite / Inon Barnatan
PENTATONE Nov 2021
CD
$19.99

CELLO SUITES

Linn Records

$29.99 Jan 25, 2019

Richard Tunnicliffe's recording of the Bach cello suites was released in 2012; the culmination of many years of study and countless performances, it has been very warmly received by critics: The Sunday Times praised it's "clear-sighted, intelligently informed yet emotionally engaged performances" and The Independent chose the album as one of the 'best classical releases of 2012.' Performing Bach's iconic suites has become a rite of passage for many cellists and Tunnicliffe's extensive experience and virtuosity has allowed him to create a recording that highlights the distinct personality and individuality of each movement. Tunnicliffe's chosen instruments (a four-string attributed to Leonhard Maussiell and a five-string piccolo by Pierre Malahar) add a welcome authenticity to his performance since both are contemporaries of Bach's suites. His concert performances of the six works have been acclaimed in Europe and Australia as well as at numerous venues in Great Britain, including Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room in London.

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CELLO SUITES
Linn Records Jan 2019
CD
$29.99

PIANO SUITES
ALTO Feb 2014
CD
$11.01

LE SUITES MEDICEE
Dynamic Jan 2011
CD
$10.99

SUITE ELEGIAQUE
Zig-Zag Territoires Dec 2007
CD
$20.99

Scelsi: Suites Nos. 8 & 11 For Pianoforte / Sabine Liebner

Wergo

$20.99 Nov 13, 2020

Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988) is one of the most unusual composers of the twentieth century, a unique figure whose importance was only fully recognized and celebrated after his death. During his lifetime, he was often dismissed, especially in Italy, as a pretentious dilettante because he did not notate his music himself. Beginning in the mid-1950s, he recorded his improvisations at the piano and had them transcribed by others. In this way, in the course of only a few years hundreds of piano pieces appeared, many of which Scelsi then collected into suites. He began his series of suites with the number 8, since the number 8 had for him a mystic significance. The “Suite No. 8” is subtitled “Bot-ba”, which means “Tibetan”. In fact, the suite has nothing to do with actual Tibetan ritual music, but is an expression of Scelsi’s deep affinity for Eastern philosophy. His final “Suite No. 11” is a special case and was put together quite late in Scelsi’s life, at least in its final version. The interpretation by internationally acclaimed pianist Sabine Liebner is therefore the first authentic recording of the work with its original sequence of movements. Liebner’s meticulously researched 2015 recordings of Scelsi’s Suite No. 9 and Suite No. 10 (WER 67942) have been celebrated by critics.

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Scelsi: Suites Nos. 8 & 11 For Pianoforte / Sabine Liebner
Wergo Nov 2020
CD
$20.99

NORMYN SUITE

SUNNYSIDE

$16.63 Mar 25, 2022

When we come to live with dogs we don't think, at first, about the proto-dogs some tens of thousands of years ago who first wandered into a group of humans and was taken in. We don't think, at first, about the subsequent years of shaping and molding and breeding and refining and tailoring that has resulted in the specimen of dog who appears before us today. And we definitely don't think, at first, about how profound it will be for each of us that this creature has wandered into human life - into our life. By the time we start thinking about these things, we are well on our way to the inevitable: the end of the lives of this animal - this character - who has slipped into our lives, our minds, our hearts. To live with dogs is eminently familiar - even ordinary, at first glance. But glance more, look closely at that warm form in your room looking back at you, and you see how unordinary it is. This keen-nosed, preternaturally agile and responsive animal, whose ancestors lived in earthen dens, who coursed together to take down large prey, is in your home - and you have forged a bond with them. The bond exists beyond words, forged in touches and gestures and gaze. They've become the breath we expect in the room, the greeting we anticipate at the door, the responsiveness that we look for from the world. Then they are gone, one day. They exit your room with the same abruptness with which they entered. In their absence the room is chilly, the world is flat. The Normyn Suites is an elegy; to listen is to spend time in that space of loss, reckoning, questioning, and mourning. At the same time, though, with each note, each phrase, we are propelled back into life. To listen is to hear that heart beat again in your head; it is to fill that room with warmth and meaning. It is to remember their presence, the softness of their ears, the affection in a lick. You can feel their pools of eyes gazing at you. You know they are running across that field, just out of your view. They are just behind that door, in the other room, down the hall. You nearly hear the thump of their wagging tail on the floor. I used to think of the end of a dog's life only as absence. But it is also a presence, for they, irrevocably, change us. I am half me, half the dogs I've known. And I'd have it no other way. Normyn, a long-eared, short-legged spirit, is woven into Leonhart's music, and I now am pleased to say I know her, too." -Alexandra Horowitz (author of "Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell and Know")

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NORMYN SUITE
SUNNYSIDE Mar 2022
CD
$16.63

BACH: THE FRENCH SUITES

HYPERION

$27.51 Oct 06, 2023

'Mahan Esfahani couldn't make a routine recital of Bach's keyboard music if you paid him' was BBC Record Review's verdict on a previous release: prospective listeners to this wonderful new set should rest assured that any hint of the routine remains as distant a threat as ever.

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BACH: THE FRENCH SUITES
HYPERION Oct 2023
CD
$27.51

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suites Nos. 1 and 2 - Pushkin Wa

Naxos

$9.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 50% Jul 31, 2012

Sergey Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet was completed after the composer's final repatriation to Soviet Russia after a period abroad. It was written for the Kirov Ballet but early productions faltered, and Prokofiev soon adapted his music to the concert hall. The Suites avoid narrative sequence, selecting crucial moments such as the famous "balcony scene", and dramatic climaxes such as the Death of Tybalt. Composed to celebrate the famous author's 150th anniversary, the Pushkin Waltzes are relaxed, easygoing, and with a typically witty edge.

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Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suites Nos. 1 and 2 - Pushkin Wa
Naxos Jul 2012
CD
~~$19.99~~ $9.99

PEER GYNT SUITES 1&2

Erato

$20.99 Nov 13, 2000

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 / In Autumn / Sakari Oramo Composed by Edvard Grieg / Conductor Sakari Oramo / Orchestra City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. As soon as the strings respond to the flute near the beginning of Peer Gynt's 'Morning' you sense this is a quality production. A bolder Grieg than we're used to hearing, less perfumed than dramatic and with impressive orchestral playing from the Birmingham orchestra.

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PEER GYNT SUITES 1&2
Erato Nov 2000
CD
$20.99

Suites for Orchestra

Sterling Records

$20.99 Mar 01, 2019

When Torbjorn Iwan Lundquist in 1962 was asked to compose the music score for the screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlof's Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (Adventures of Nils Holgersson), he was already a well-known composer of film music. By 1954 he had written the scores for 16 films, and three other movies with his music were premiered the same year as Nils Holgersson. In 1962, Lundquist was engaged to compose the music for the grandiose and lavish 'Adventure of Nils Holgersson,' an adaptation of Selma Lagerlof's novel, directed by Kenne Fant. It was to be a film in color with stunning aerial photographs of Sweden and with music by Lundquist. It was actually the first time a complete soundtrack in a Swedish film was released on LP. The Suite from this score is paired here with the Suites from Gosta Berling's saga as well as some additional movements which were used in radio dramas.

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Suites for Orchestra
Sterling Records Mar 2019
CD
$20.99

HARLEM SUITE

ROPEADOPE

$14.63 May 12, 2023

Jacques Schwarz-Bart has been at the center of several musical revolutions: Neo Soul next to D'angelo and Erika Badu, New Jazz as a founding member of Roy Hargrove's RH Factor, and he is a leading pioneer in the creation of two surging new styles: Gwoka Jazz, and Voodoo jazz, reuniting jazz music with it's Afro-Caribbean and spiritual origins. Jacques' impressionistic writing, powerful tone, and wide-ranging language - both lyrical and angular - have fueled a growing presence on the world stage.

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HARLEM SUITE
ROPEADOPE May 2023
CD
$14.63

GOSHU ONDO SUITE

AUM FIDELITY

$14.63 Nov 15, 2019

A seed is a star, a star is a seed. Stevie Wonder's cosmically aphoristic title could also describe pianist and composer Eri Yamamoto's Goshu Ondo Suite. "About two years ago," she writes in the liner notes accompanying her momentous seven-part opus, "I was vacuuming my apartment, and with the rhythm of the movement, I began singing "Goshu Ondo," a traditional circle dance song from Shiga, near Kyoto, Japan." This is how the prolific musician channeled deeply felt resonances with various traditions, birthing her most significant and thoroughgoing work to date. The November 2018 premiere concerts were recorded, and now, thanks to Yamamoto's long-standing relationship with AUM Fidelity, we can all participate in the transcultural celebration.

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GOSHU ONDO SUITE
AUM FIDELITY Nov 2019
CD
$14.63

Nielsen: Symphony No 1, Little Suite / Esa-pekka Salonen
CBS Masterworks Sep 2009
CD
$17.99

Alfano: Suite romantica; Una danza / Grazioli, Milan Symphony

Naxos

$9.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 50% Apr 12, 2024

Franco Alfano possessed an innate melodic facility combined with a talent for unexpected timbres. From the neo-Classical Divertimento to the noirish post-war Nenia, the lightness of touch of Amour… Amour… to the impressionistic Una danza and luxuriously orchestrated Suite romantica, each work reveals a different aspect of this multifaceted composer. This release of world premiere recordings features the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano conducted by Giuseppe Grazioli who makes his Naxos début.

REVIEW:

Franco Alfano (1875–1954) remains a marginal figure in musical life despite a fair degree of coverage in record catalogs. Yet he is a thoroughly original composer, one who possessed an innate melodic gift combined with a talent for unexpected timbres, as can be heard in the lavishly orchestrated Suite romantica. The half-hour work is heard on this album in a very colorful and expressive, excellently performed interpretation.

With Una danza, completely different colors are expressed and one may hear an influence of Debussy. This is followed by Nenia, a somewhat melancholy solo piece for accordion, sensitively played by Davide Vendramin, which finds its counterpart in the Aria of the Divertimento, even if the outer movements are very lively and playful.

The program, pleasing and excellently played, ends with the Waltz Amour… Amour…, originally composed for piano in 1901 and orchestrated in 1928.

-- Pizzicato

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Alfano: Suite romantica; Una danza / Grazioli, Milan Symphony
Naxos Apr 2024
CD
~~$19.99~~ $9.99

FANTASIAS & SUITES
VANGUARD CLASSICS Jun 2004
CD
$14.49

ZODIAC SUITE
SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS Oct 1995
CD
$16.63

J.S. Bach: French Suites

Inventa Records

$20.99 Oct 16, 2026

These are the most outstanding clavier works of Johann Sebastian Bach' - so declared Bach's first biographer, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, in 1802. Possibly conceived as a wedding gift for the composer's second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach, the six so-called 'French Suites' exemplify the Style Galante and are prized for their elegance and exquisite melodic refinement. In this new recording, the acclaimed early keyboard specialist, Andrew Arthur, takes us on a captivating journey through these cornerstone suites of the Baroque keyboard repertoire. Drawing upon an extensive re-examination of the intriguing array of primary sources, he performs on two exceptional harpsichords by Andrew Garlick and Keith Hill, built after distinguished eighteenth-century models by the celebrated Parisian makers, Jean-Claude Goujon (1749) and Pascal Taskin (1769).

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J.S. Bach: French Suites
Inventa Records Oct 2026
CD
$20.99