J.S. Bach: French Suites, BWV 812-817 (2CDs) Edmund Rubbra The Queen’s Six releases their

The Queen’s Six releases their debut album with a sumptuous selection of music from the golden age of English polyphony

This recital also draws on more contemporary sources and presents several world premiere recordings including Howard Skempton’s Christmas Bells and Gary Davison’s Seven Versets on Divinum Mysterium

Fantasticus prides itself on the fact that it makes no compromises with regard to authentic performance

It is an intimate and assured collection

now housed in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum

J.S. Bach: French Suites, BWV 812-817 (2CDs) Edmund Rubbra The Queen’s Six releases theirAndrew Arthur (harpsichord) These are the most outstanding clavier works of Johann Sebastian Bach so declared Bachs first biographer, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, in 1802. Possibly conceived as a wedding gift for the composers second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach, the six so called French Suites exemplify the Style Galante and are prized for their elegance and exquisite melodic refinement. In this new recording, the acclaimed early keyboard specialist, Andrew