A busy schedule as music director of the Bach Collegium Japan, and as a sought-after guest conductor doesn’t stop Masaaki Suzuki from returning to his first loves, the organ and the harpsichord.
With the present release he adds yet another chapter to his series of Bach’s works for solo harpsichord. After acclaimed recordings of the Well-tempered Clavier, the Goldberg variations, the French Suites and other works the turn has come to perform the English Suites.
There are six English Suites, and this recording allows us to hear all of them!
I was unable to locate a Suzuki recording of the English suites, so here is Andras Schiff, instead:
