Bach: French Suites / Keith Jarrett
On this CD:
1. French Suite for keyboard No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Keith Jarrett
2. French Suite for keyboard No. 2 in C minor, BWV 813
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Keith Jarrett
3. French Suite for keyboard No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Keith Jarrett
4. French Suite for keyboard No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 815
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Keith Jarrett
5. French Suite for keyboard No. 5 in G major, BWV 816
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Keith Jarrett
6. French Suite for keyboard No. 6 in E major, BWV 817
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Keith Jarrett
Bach: French Suites / Keith Jarrett, Music, J.S. Bach, Keith Jarrett, Keith Jarrett, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Keyboard, Suite/Partita for Keyboard
Average customer rating:
- A fine performance
- C'est impossible
- Listen for yourself to hear the brilliance
- Possibly Even Drier Than Moroney's Performance
- A lack of harpsichord training.
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Release Date: 2000-04-18 |
Tracks:
- Suite No. 1, BWV 812 In D Minor: Allemande
- Suite No. 1, BWV 812 In D Minor: Courante
- Suite No. 1, BWV 812 In D Minor: Sarabande
- Suite No. 1, BWV 812 In D Minor: Menuet I
- Suite No. 1, BWV 812 In D Minor: Menuet II
- Suite No. 1, BWV 812 In D Minor: Gigue
- Suite No. 2, BWV 813 In C Minor: Allemande
- Suite No. 2, BWV 813 In C Minor: Courante
- Suite No. 2, BWV 813 In C Minor: Sarabande
- Suite No. 2, BWV 813 In C Minor: Air
- Suite No. 2, BWV 813 In C Minor: Menuet
- Suite No. 2, BWV 813 In C Minor: Gigue
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Allemande
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Courante
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Sarabande
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Anglaise
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Menuet
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Trio, Menuet da capo
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Gigue
Tracks:
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Allemande
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Courante
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Sarabande
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Gavotte
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Menuet
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Air
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Gigue
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Allemande
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Courante
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Sarabande
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Gavotte
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Bourree
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Loure
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Gigue
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Allemande
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Courante
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Sarabande
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Gavotte
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Polonaise
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Bourree
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Menuet
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Gigue
Customer Reviews:
A fine performance.......2006-08-24
The negative reviews on this page are quite unfounded. If you don't recognise the phrasing, articutations and inflection on this recording, well, you don't know what phrasing and articulation are. As a lover of Bach and a harpsichordist myself, I own no less than five recordings of the French suites and find myself reaching for this one most often. Jarrett's tempi are appropriate and reasonable; he uses plenty of speed where it's needed, he's making beautiful music, not showing off how fast he can move his fingers. Listen for example to the courante from the #5 Gmaj and tell me he's "dragging", you'll sound silly. All in all, these suites are thoughtfully interpreted and played with grace.
C'est impossible.......2006-06-19
The negative reviews seem unfounded. I bought the Glenn Gould CD and he has the annoying tendency to hum throughout his entire recordings. Furthermore, I like Jarrett over Gould in that the music, written for harpsichord, naturally sounds better on harpsichord than piano.
Listen for yourself to hear the brilliance.......2005-12-19
Jarrett plays brilliantly.
Please listen to this performance for yourself; the criticisms of other reviewers on this page seem unfair to me. The accusation that Jarrett has a poor touch on the harpsichord is particularly puzzling; like his other harpsichord recordings, this one is splendid.
There are three problems which face us. The first is the harpsichord itself, to many a diabolical instrument which should have become extinct with the invention of the pianoforte. But of course these suites were written for harpsichord and (if that matters to you) piano versions are anachronistic.
Another is that Jarrett plays Bach cleanly and with fewer inflections than is the fashion these days. But that is the way many listeners still love to hear Bach played.
A third lies in Jarrett's tempi. Glenn Gould got through these suites in one-third of the time Jarrett takes. Whether that enhanced our appreciation, and whether his performances said more about Bach or Gould, I leave to you. But Jarrett's performance (again, if that matters to you) is far closer to Bach's original intention.
In any case, comparisons are odious. After Jarrett, Gould sounds like an over-wound musical box. After Gould, Jarrett sounds like a tortoise. But the phrasing of each performer is wonderful, and each man's understanding of Bach is well worth listening to.
Personally, I love Jarrett's playing; he is one of the most sensitive and lyrical of contemporary pianists, and his long illness has deprived us of what would surely have been a larger body of baroque music recordings. So make your own mind up.
I highly recommend this collection to lovers of Bach, Jarrett and the diabolical harpsichord.
Possibly Even Drier Than Moroney's Performance.......2004-02-01
It would be difficult to imagine a performance of Bach's French Suites drier and duller than that given by Davitt Boroney, but Jarrett might just have managed to do so. This is reverent, "hands off" Bach, just as your grandfathers liked it, not pithy, interpreted Bach. Jarrett never suffers a single articulation, his harpsichord is lifeless, his sense of rhythm and tempo is absolutely dead and metronomic. In short, he plays classical music as badly as those classical musicians who make occasional forays into playing jazz, and with the same predictably hideous results.
A lack of harpsichord training........2003-12-03
Simply put: Jarrett is not a harpsichodist. He is a pianist who thinks he can play the harpsichord as he would play the piano. As a result his playing is very dry. A whole new level of technique is nec essary in order to play the harpsichord well. In this case, a computer could have given an equally worthy performance because Jarrett never emphasized, transitions, note values, key changes, trills, etc, in a way that made the pieces interesting. I can equate this to reading a book aloud without stopping to breathe at periods, pausing slightly at commas, or exaggerating words that are written in UPPER CASE LETTERS.
The excessive use of reverb was also problematic.
For superior quality, I would suggest the Gustav Leonhardt or Igor Kipnis renditions of the French Suites.
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Release Date: 1993-11-09 |
Tracks:
- Suite No. 1, BWV 812 In D Minor: Allemande
- Suite No. 1, BWV 812 In D Minor: Courante
- Suite No. 1, BWV 812 In D Minor: Sarabande
- Suite No. 1, BWV 812 In D Minor: Menuet I
- Suite No. 1, BWV 812 In D Minor: Menuet II
- Suite No. 1, BWV 812 In D Minor: Gigue
- Suite No. 2, BWV 813 In C Minor: Allemande
- Suite No. 2, BWV 813 In C Minor: Courante
- Suite No. 2, BWV 813 In C Minor: Sarabande
- Suite No. 2, BWV 813 In C Minor: Air
- Suite No. 2, BWV 813 In C Minor: Menuet
- Suite No. 2, BWV 813 In C Minor: Gigue
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Allemande
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Courante
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Sarabande
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Anglaise
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Menuet
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Trio, Menuet da capo
- Suite No. 3, BWV 814 In B Minor: Gigue
Tracks:
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Allemande
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Courante
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Sarabande
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Gavotte
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Menuet
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Air
- Suite No. 4, BWV 815 In E-Flat Major: Gigue
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Allemande
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Courante
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Sarabande
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Gavotte
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Bourree
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Loure
- Suite No. 5, BWV 816 In G Major: Gigue
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Allemande
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Courante
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Sarabande
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Gavotte
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Polonaise
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Bourree
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Menuet
- Suite No. 6, BWV 817 In E Major: Gigue
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Bach composed three great keyboard suite collections, today known as the French Suites, the English Suites, and the Partitas. There's absolutely nothing inherently French about the French Suites. They consist, as do all of Bach's works in this form, of a selection of dances from various countries, in this case not preceded by the usual overture or prelude. In fact, there are two movements--the Anglaise and the Polish Minuet--which are clearly not French in origin. Neither are the Gigues or the Sarabandes, for that matter. So it's best not too worry to much about the title, which did not originate with Bach anyway, and simply enjoy this charming, elegantly crafted music. Jarrett's performances are uniformly excellent. --David Hurwitz
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