Bach: Orchestral Suites + 2008 Catalogue

This catalogue CD also contains the complete 2008 printed catalgoue, specially issued in this budget 2 CD set for the 50th anniversary of Harmonia Mundi.
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral suites, ouverturen BWV 1066-69

Called "Ouvertüren" in Germany, because they began with a large-scale overture à la française, Bach's Suites for orchestra offer a unique synthesis of the French and the Italian styles.
The Leipzig Cantor did not content himself with a mere set of amiable dances for his "Collegium Musicum": he revived the genre in his own manner, accenting the contrasts, refining the orchestration, and introducing a hitherto unknown contrapuntal element.
Two centuries later these admirable orchestral works continue to represent an indispensable treasure of the Baroque

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