Bach: Complete English Suites
Sophie Yates (harpsichord)
The mighty instrument on which Yates plays is the perfect medium for the forcefulness of her ideas...Overall this is a fine set of recordings of works we don’t hear enough, and it offers many...
Bach: Complete English Suites
Sophie Yates (harpsichord)
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The mighty instrument on which Yates plays is the perfect medium for the forcefulness of her ideas...Overall this is a fine set of recordings of works we don’t hear enough, and it offers many...
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There is no surviving autograph manuscript of Bach ’s ‘English’ Suites, and for such a set of magnificent pieces, an important and well-loved part of the baroque keyboard ‘canon’, surprisingly little is known about its history. What we do know is that the suites are amongst Bach’s earlier works – probably written in the second decade of the eighteenth century – and that the appellation ‘English’ was not given to them until the 1750s.
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December 2021
The mighty instrument on which Yates plays is the perfect medium for the forcefulness of her ideas...Overall this is a fine set of recordings of works we don’t hear enough, and it offers many pleasurable moments.
November 2021
One strength of Yates’s performances is her grasp of the cycle as a whole...In addition to the vitality of these interpretations and their stylistic assurance, her resourceful exploitation of the instrument is a joy to the ear.
