Bach: English Suites

1. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV 808: Prelude
2. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV 808: Allemande
3. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV 808: Courante
4. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV 808: Sarabande
5. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV 808: Les agrements de la même Sarabande
6. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV 808: Gavotte alternativement
7. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV 808: Gavotte II ou la Musette
8. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV 808: Gigue
9. Bach: English Suite No. 1 in A major BWV 806: Prélude
10. Bach: English Suite No. 1 in A major BWV 806: Allemande
11. Bach: English Suite No. 1 in A major BWV 806: Courante I
12. Bach: English Suite No. 1 in A major BWV 806: Courante II
13. Bach: English Suite No. 1 in A major BWV 806: Courante precedent avec basse simple
14. Bach: English Suite No. 1 in A major BWV 806: Sarabande
15. Bach: English Suite No. 1 in A major BWV 806: Bourrée I
16. Bach: English Suite No. 1 in A major BWV 806: Bourrée II
17. Bach: English Suite No. 1 in A major BWV 806: Gigue
18. Bach: English Suite No. 5 in E minor BWV 810: Prélude
19. Bach: English Suite No. 5 in E minor BWV 810: Allemande
20. Bach: English Suite No. 5 in E minor BWV 810: Courante
21. Bach: English Suite No. 5 in E minor BWV 810: Sarabande
22. Bach: English Suite No. 5 in E minor BWV 810: Passepied I en Rondeau
23. Bach: English Suite No. 5 in E minor BWV 810: Passepied II
24. Bach: English Suite No. 5 in E minor BWV 810: Gigue

“The wonderful thing is that the modern piano can suggest so many instruments…Playing Bach on the piano, it’s really all about suggestion,” says Piotr Anderszewski. More than 10 years since the release of his first recording of Bach’s English Suites, these interpretations of Suites 1, 3 and 5 join the Warner Classics catalogue. Anderszewski’s concert performances of Bach in 2013 prompted the New York Times to write: “He revels in the full range of timbres afforded by the modern piano”, while The Guardian cited “some of the most sublime piano playing London has witnessed all season”.

With this recording, Piotr Anderszewski returns to Bach’s English Suites after more than 10 years. In 2002, when have been released his interpretations of Suites 1, 3 and 6, The Sunday Times spoke of “Bach playing of the highest order,” enthusing that: “His playing throughout is wonderful, laying out Bach’s contrapuntal writing with a clarity and subtlety of touch that removes these works far from the realms of technical exercises. His fingers dance in the Courantes and Allemandes, and positively sing the melodies of the sublime Sarabandes.”