Eide plays Bach English Suite No 2 in A Minor BWV 807 Bourrée 1 and 2

English Suite No. 2, Bourré 1 and 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach. You can buy the cd on Amazon.com. The cd also contains Rachmaninov´s Sonata No. 2, Nordheim´s Listen! and Jesper koch´s Images of Lorca.
Bach: 2nd English Suite in A minor, BWV 807:
Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Bourrée I, Bourrée II, Gigue.
Bach wrote lots of music for the cembalo (harpsichord), today often played on the piano. A "suite" is a collection of stylized dances, not intended for dancing but for listening. He wrote a collection of French suites, that differ from his English suites in the names and styles of the dances, although it is possible that "English" also has to do with the publication of the music. The difference between "French" and "English" is especially clear in the first movement of the suites. In the French suites this movement is called "Ouverture" and has a specific French structure, while the Prelude of the English suites is something else.
In the second English Suite we are listening to an Allemande, i.e. German dance, which has its origins in Germany in the 16th century and may be seen as a forerunner for the waltz, a Courante which is a fast dance, courante in French meaning "running", first heard in France around 1550 and notated in 3/4 or 3/8, two Bourrées, the first of them repeated after No. 2 -- Bourrée being a French Dance from the 16th century, notated in 4/4 or 2/4, and a Gigue, in English Jig, a fast dance notated in 6/8.
This is light music, intended for entertaining.

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[eliyaguy]

This is exceptionally beautiful. Such rare good taste, vitality, refinement, so groovy, such beautiful sound, steady, gentle and precise touch, sheer pleasure!