Tag: Ragtime

  • PROGRAM NOTES: JEREMY DENK

    PROGRAM NOTES: JEREMY DENK

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    Johann Sebastian Bach English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808 Bach’s keyboard suites are a remarkable amalgam of the florid keyboard idiom of the French, the lyrical gift for vocal melody of the Italians, and the sober contrapuntal rigour of his fellow Germans. The suites which posthumously (and illogically) came to be labelled…