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English Suite No. 1 in A major, BWV 806Johann Sebastian Bach 10 movements29:01
1. 1 Prelude 2:36
2. 2 Allemande 4:45
3. 3 Courante I 2:21
4. 4 Courante II 2:30
5. 5 Double I 1:46
6. 6 Double II 1:49
7. 7 Sarabande 5:08
8. 8 Bourrée I 2:25
9. 9 Bourrée II 2:53
10. 10 Gigue 2:48
English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807Johann Sebastian Bach 7 movements24:59
1. 11 Prelude 5:36
2. 12 Allemande 3:46
3. 13 Courante 2:30
4. 14 Sarabande 4:10
5. 15 Bourrée I 2:29
6. 16 Bourrée II 2:41
7. 17 Gigue 3:47
English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808Johann Sebastian Bach 7 movements20:55
1. 18 Prelude 3:36
2. 19 Allemande 3:41
3. 20 Courante 2:45
4. 21 Sarabande 4:29
5. 22 Gavotte I 1:48
6. 23 Gavotte II 1:50
7. 24 Gigue 2:46
English Suite No. 4 in F major, BWV 809Johann Sebastian Bach 7 movements22:54
1. 201 Prelude 5:58
2. 202 Allemande 3:52
3. 203 Courante 1:56
4. 204 Sarabande 3:50
5. 205 Menuet I 1:32
6. 206 Menuet II 2:14
7. 207 Gigue 3:32
English Suite No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810Johann Sebastian Bach 7 movements22:52
1. 208 Prelude 5:45
2. 209 Allemande 4:17
3. 210 Courante 3:02
4. 211 Sarabande 3:11
5. 212 Passepied I 1:20
6. 213 Passepied II 2:15
7. 214 Gigue 3:02
English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811Johann Sebastian Bach 7 movements29:28
1. 215 Prelude 8:53
2. 216 Allemande 4:03
3. 217 Courante 2:59
4. 218 Sarabande 3:30
5. 219 Gavotte I 2:37
6. 220 Gavotte II 4:14
7. 221 Gigue 3:12

The English Suites were probably written during Bach’s years as Kapellmeister in Cöthen, or even as early as 1715 while he was still in Weimar – certainly well before the six French Suites and the six Partitas. It was customary to write suites in sets of six. The original manuscript had been lost, but a copy was in the possession of Bach’s youngest son, Johann Christian Bach, then living in England. The title page carried the inscription ‘Faites pour les Anglois’.

Aided by an ability to play a substantial number of Bach’s keyboard works and other repertoire from memory, Judith has given many recitals in England, where she lived for 23 years, and throughout Europe.

She studied under some of the great pianists and pedagogues of the time, including Kendall Taylor, Lamar Crowson, Nadia Boulanger and Paul Badura-Skoda. Later she was awarded a grant by the Dutch Government for a year of study with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam.

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I can enjoy and appreciate Lambden’s balanced interpretations in a mood of relaxed, unperturbed concentration … thoughtfully appealing, reliably judged.

— Howard Smith, Music and Vision

Artists

Judith Lambden

piano

Distinguished Australian pianist and harpsichordist Judith Lambden has recorded many works on the Move label, among them Schubert’s great B-flat Sonata, Bach’s English and French Suites, the six Partitas, and a wide span of other J.S. Bach keyboard works.

Johann Sebastian Bach

composer

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and organist of the late Baroque. His sacred and secular music for choir, orchestra, organ and solo instruments remains among the foundations of the Western concert and church repertory.