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Bach: English Suites / Edward Parmentier, harpsichord

Johann Sebastian Bach, Edward Parmentier, Salem, Oregon harpsichord after Vaudry 1681 by Owen Daley
Bach: English Suites / Edward Parmentier, harpsichord
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (19) - Disc #1
1. English Suite, for keyboard No. 1 in A major, BWV 806 (BC L13): Prelude
2. English Suite, for keyboard No. 1 in A major, BWV 806 (BC L13): Allemande
3. English Suite, for keyboard No. 1 in A major, BWV 806 (BC L13): Courante I / Courante II
4. English Suite, for keyboard No. 1 in A major, BWV 806 (BC L13): Double I / Double II
5. English Suite, for keyboard No. 1 in A major, BWV 806 (BC L13): Sarabande
6. English Suite, for keyboard No. 1 in A major, BWV 806 (BC L13): Bourree I / Bourree II
7. English Suite, for keyboard No. 1 in A major, BWV 806 (BC L13): Gigue
8. English Suite, for keyboard No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807 (BC L14): Prelude
9. English Suite, for keyboard No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807 (BC L14): Allemande
10. English Suite, for keyboard No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807 (BC L14): Courante
11. English Suite, for keyboard No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807 (BC L14): Sarabande
12. English Suite, for keyboard No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807 (BC L14): Bourree I / Bourree II
13. English Suite, for keyboard No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807 (BC L14): Gigue
14. English Suite, for keyboard No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808 (BC L15): Prelude
15. English Suite, for keyboard No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808 (BC L15): Allemande
16. English Suite, for keyboard No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808 (BC L15): Courante
17. English Suite, for keyboard No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808 (BC L15): Sarabande
18. English Suite, for keyboard No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808 (BC L15): Gavotte I / Gavotte II 'La Musette'
19. English Suite, for keyboard No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808 (BC L15): Gigue
Track Listings (18) - Disc #2
1. English Suite, for keyboard No. 4 in F major, BWV 809 (BC L16): Prelude
2. English Suite, for keyboard No. 4 in F major, BWV 809 (BC L16): Allemande
3. English Suite, for keyboard No. 4 in F major, BWV 809 (BC L16): Courante
4. English Suite, for keyboard No. 4 in F major, BWV 809 (BC L16): Sarabande
5. English Suite, for keyboard No. 4 in F major, BWV 809 (BC L16): Meneut I / Meneut II
6. English Suite, for keyboard No. 4 in F major, BWV 809 (BC L16): Gigue
7. English Suite, for keyboard No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810 (BC L17): Prelude
8. English Suite, for keyboard No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810 (BC L17): Allemande
9. English Suite, for keyboard No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810 (BC L17): Courante
10. English Suite, for keyboard No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810 (BC L17): Sarabande
11. English Suite, for keyboard No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810 (BC L17): Passepied I en rondeau / Passepied II
12. English Suite, for keyboard No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810 (BC L17): Gigue
13. English Suite, for keyboard No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811 (BC L18): Pr?lude
14. English Suite, for keyboard No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811 (BC L18): Allemande
15. English Suite, for keyboard No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811 (BC L18): Courante
16. English Suite, for keyboard No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811 (BC L18): Sarabande et double
17. English Suite, for keyboard No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811 (BC L18): Gavottes I & II
18. English Suite, for keyboard No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811 (BC L18): Gigue

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All Artists: Johann Sebastian Bach, Edward Parmentier, Salem, Oregon harpsichord after Vaudry 1681 by Owen Daley
Title: Bach: English Suites / Edward Parmentier, harpsichord
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Wild Boar Records
Original Release Date: 6/1/2000
Release Date: 6/1/2000
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Suites, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750), Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 797551930220

Synopsis

Album Description

Bach's English Suites are the earliest of his "6-packs", which include the French Suites and the Partitas. They are based on the amalgamation of French and Italian styles, and their level of virtuosity is beyond any that came before. Parmentier plays a harpsichord made in Paris in 1785 by Jacques Germain, one of the most beautiful and best-preserved in existence. It is housed at America's Shrine to Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota, which has one of the largest and most important collections of musical instruments in the western hemisphere.

CD Reviews

Splendid, florid early Bach

Matthew D Kerr | Princeton, NJ United States | 07/19/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Parmentier's playing is almost as elegant and "French" as, say, Rousset's in playing Couperin. I find that this gives immense pleasure, and there's also more to his playing, something spiritual, perhaps as much as in Karl Richter's or Ralph Kirkpatrick's Bach. The harpsichord sound is really beautiful, and warmly recorded."

Parmentier One of the World's Foremost Bach Interpreters

Matthew D Kerr | 06/27/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you have been bored witless by the likes of Davitt Maroney you may refresh yourself with this splendid release by Edward Parmentier, a harpsichordisist countless degrees Maroney's superior. Parmentier is one of those "good" Leonhardt students who did more than simply punch the clock with the great Dutch master for a year in order to stake a claim to his throne, as Maroney did. No, Parmentier has fully grasped the sophistication that Leonhardt brought to harpsichord playing, but has infused it with a greater degree of imagination and artistic license than the latter usually allowed himself.A superb recording, and one to blast others out of the water. A pity he is does not live in Europe, or he would be more widely acknowledged as the greatest living master in his field."