Shownotes

Several of these dances/movements from Bach's second English Suite have to put a big smile on your face. Stand out movements include the first Bourée and the Sarabande.

• Prelude
• Allemande
• Courante
• Sarabande
• Bourées I, II, I
• Gigue

This copy of the score writes out a da capo for the bourrees, asking the performer to return to the minor-keyed first dance to round off the pair.

Featured Performances:

• Blandine Rannou
• Anne-Marie McDermott
• Stefan Temmingh
• RedPriest - Johann, I'm Only Dancing
• Harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï via YouTube - Hantaï takes the liberty of offering his own "pre-prelude" which makes sense to me since the prelude by Bach dives right into a strict contrapuntal structure