Bach: The 6 French Suites - Francesco Tristano - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

The fourth stage of Francesco Tristano’s Bach journey with naïve is the complete set of six French Suites (BWV 812–817, c. 1722–1725). The cycle of six French Suites remains the first through which this Luxembourg pianist immersed himself deeply and enduringly in Bach, admiring as he does their quiet beauty and curious serenity. For him, the French Suites are lyrical and melodic yet also incisive, as if imbued with vivid spontaneity, and without the slightest hint of haste. Density through compression is perhaps the true aim of the French Suites—after the expansion of forms at work in the six English Suites (the only earlier surviving set of French-style suites by J. S. Bach; see naïve V 8828, 2025) —before we reach the miraculous synthesis achieved in the first part of the Clavier-Übung (the six Partitas; naïve V 8619, 2024).

Label: Naive | Origin: Holland