J.S. Bach: The French Suites (2 CDs) beethoven Centred on Byrd’s Mass for

Centred on Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices – revelatory and influential listening for a whole host of later composers – this mosaic of reworkings

"Ferries’s richly detailed booklet-notes echo his recital by being a perfect blend of facts

just a few years later

Release date: 28 March 2011

and as such has now been discontinued

J.S. Bach: The French Suites (2 CDs) beethoven Centred on Byrd’s Mass forSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO The French Suites have a special place among Bachs keyboard works. Besides containing music as profound and poetic as any he wrote, their textures have a transparency and sparkle that reflect a move towards the galant style fashionable among Bachs contemporaries. In this, the third instalment of Peter Hills acclaimed Bach series, Hill has chosen to follow the suites with his own completion of Mozarts Suite in C,