Bach French Suites

Bach French Suite No. 4 Amplified

Bach French Suite No. 4 Amplified

The Bach French Suite No. 4’s Allemande is relatively short, making its contrapuntal demands on the player manageable; get tips on how to play the piece.

The Bach French Suites Amplified

The Bach French Suites Amplified

The Bach French Suites, groupings of short pieces originally most likely written for the harpsichord, now played on the piano, provide many of the benefits of studying more complicated music by Bach.

Shirley Gruenhut Plays the Bach French Suite No. 5

Shirley Gruenhut Plays the Bach French Suite No. 5

Bach is my basic. It’s always back to Bach, the grand master. As a teenager, I played Bach’s Two-Part Inventions, then the Preludes and Fugues (from the Well-Tempered Clavier Books I and II), and then I discovered the French and English Suites, and I played a lot of both.