English Suites
No. in D minor No. 3, in G minor played by Geraint Jones (harpsichord)
The six English Suites for harpsichord were composed about 1725 and published after Bach's death They were probably described as ' English ' because Bach's youngest son, Johann Christian, possessed a manuscript copy in which the prelude to the first suite bore the words fait pour les Anglois. This prelude is in fact an expansion of a gigue by Dieupart, a French composer very popular in England in the early years of the 18th century. H.R.