{"id":750,"date":"2011-08-31T22:08:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T02:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2011-08-31T22:11:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T02:11:44","slug":"day-thirty-five-english-suites-cd-2-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Day Thirty Five: English Suites, Part One (CD 2-12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bach-Complete-Works-155-Box\/dp\/B000HRME5U\/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1311823878&amp;sr=1-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/img\/BachEdition2.12.jpg\" alt=\"Bach Edition 35\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>English Suites, eh? What&#8217;s an English Suite?<\/p>\n<p>As usual, Wikipedia to the rescue. Here&#8217;s the entry for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_Suites,_BWV_806-811\">English Suites<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The English Suites, BWV 806\u2013811, are a set of six suites written by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach for harpsichord and generally thought to be the earliest of Bach&#8217;s 19 suites for keyboard, the others being the 6 French Suites, BWV 812-817, the 6 Partitas, BWV 825-830 and the Overture in the French style, BWV 831&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although today&#8217;s compositions are once again played on the harpsichord, they&#8217;re performed by a different musician: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_van_Asperen\">Bob Van Asperen<\/a>, a Dutch multi-instrumentalist known primarily for his prowess on the harpsichord. Makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>These are terrific, full of variation and depth, speed and restraint. I could listen to this again, which is admitting a lot since it is music performed on the dreaded h-word instrument.<\/p>\n<p>The compositions on today&#8217;s CD are:<br \/>\nBWV 806<br \/>\nBWV 807<br \/>\nBWV 808<br \/>\nAll of the above were composed around 1725. Bach was 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Suites, eh? What&#8217;s an English Suite? As usual, Wikipedia to the rescue. Here&#8217;s the entry for English Suites: The English Suites, BWV 806\u2013811, are a set of six suites written by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach for harpsichord and generally thought to be the earliest of Bach&#8217;s 19 suites for keyboard, the others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[198,34,383,384,385,386,382,387,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.155dayswithbachandme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}