Caspar Frantz - Bach: Französische Suiten, BWV 812-817 (2012) [SACD] - SACD - MUSIC

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Caspar Frantz - Bach: Französische Suiten, BWV 812-817 (2012) [SACD]

Artist: Caspar Frantz
Title: Bach: Französische Suiten, BWV 812-817
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: Ars Produktion
Genre: Classical
Quality: SACD (DSD64 2.0, DST64 5.1; Image.iso)
Total Time: 01:55:13 min
Total Size: 6,1 Gb (+1%rec.)

For anyone wanting to know: Caspar Frantz is, indeed, related to his better known & older nephew, Justus. Some years ago (2009), Caspar’s Haydn piano concerti Haydn: Piano Concertos 2, 9 & 11were very well received by John Miller. This recording of Bach’s French Suites, including BWV 818a & 619a, on 2 SACD’s, released 3 years later, is of equally surprising quality.
Like the cover picture on the earlier 1, Frantz is once more sitting on a fence. Any deeper thought behind it? Who knows; just like there is no other explanation about the name of the ‘French Suites’ than that they were composed in a French style. This claim, coined by his 1st biographer, Forkel, can, however, not be sustained as they were all 6 modeled according to the then fashionable Italian style. Certain is, that Bach did not name them as such.
On the other hand, Sarah Grossert (lecturer Humboldt university, Berlin), builds in her liner notes, a well-documented case, linking the suites to the French composer Couperin. This makes for interesting reading & reflection. Question remains to what extent Couperin was influenced by Italian composers. He introduced Corelli’s trio sonata form to France & amalgamated both Italian & French styles into what he called: ‘Les goûts réunis’.
So much for the name. What about the why? There, too, the situation is unclear. For Bach it apparently was an ongoing project. Adding & changing things in most of them, of which BWV 619a & BWV 818a give evidence. Research shows that it was most probably meant or used as study material for his pupils.

DISC I
Suite 1 BWV 812
1 Allemande 2 : 53
2 Courante 1 : 40
3 Sarabande 3 : 09
4 Menuet I – Menuet II – Menuet I 3 : 31
5 Gigue 2 : 29
Suite 2 BWV 813
6 Allemande 2 : 56
7 Courante 1 : 37
8 Sarabande 3 : 05
9 Air 1 : 25
10 Menuet I – Menuet II – Menuet I 3 : 22
11 Gigue 1 : 49
Suite 3 BWV 814
12 Allemande 3 : 01
13 Courante 2 : 06
14 Sarabande 3 : 02
15 Anglaise 1 : 32
16 Menuet I – Menuet II – Menuet I 3 : 06
17 Gigue 2 : 04
Suite 4 BWV 815
18 Allemande 1 : 56
19 Courante 1 : 33
20 Sarabande 2 : 58
21 Gavotte 1 : 17
22 Air 1 : 32
23 Menuet 0 : 53
24 Gigue 2 : 17
25 Gavotte II aus BWV 815 a 3 : 26

DISC II
Suite 5 BWV 816
1 Allemande 2 : 52
2 Courante 1 : 39
3 Sarabande 4 : 02
4 Gavotte 1 : 11
5 Bourrée 1 : 20
6 Loure 1 : 46
7 Gigue 3 : 22
Suite 6 BWV 817
8 Allemande 2 : 34
7 Courante 1 : 29
10 Sarabande 2 : 56
11 Gavotte 1 : 03
12 Polonaise 1 : 24
13 Menuet 1 : 13
14 Bourrée 1 : 38
15 Gigue 2 : 17
Suite a-Moll BWV 818a
16 Fort gai 1 : 46
17 Allemande 2 : 57
18 Courante 1 : 14
19 Sarabande 2 : 46
20 Menuet 1 : 16
21 Gigue 2 : 24
Suite Es-Dur BWV 819a
22 Allemande 3 : 05
23 Courante 1 : 58
24 Sarabande 3 : 07
25 Bourrée 1 : 45
26 Menuet I – Menuet II – Menuet I 2 : 45