The Dance Suite Connection
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"La Camargo Dancing," by French artist Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743)
The Irish jig takes on a French name and ends up in some of Bach and Handel’s best-known keyboard and orchestral works—along with a German folk dance and a 16th century Latin American step that in Spain was banned as “obscene.”
Meanwhile, musicians who bundled these and other popular dance styles were taking the first important steps toward the concerto and symphony.
In this hour, the often surprising story of the Baroque suite.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
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Title
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Group/Artist
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Catalog #
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UPC
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Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 9 - 12
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English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
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Archiv 410 899-2
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028941089922
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Terpsichore: Renaissance and Early Baroque Dance Music
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Ulsamer-Collegium, Josef Ulsamer
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Archiv 415 294-2
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028941529428
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Dance Music of the High Renaissance
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Collegium Terpsichore, Fritz Newumeyer
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Boston Skyline BSD 118
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730357011823
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Bach: English Suites
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Hanssler Classics 92113
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040888211327
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Handel: Concerti Grossi, op. 6, nos. 5-8
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English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
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Archiv 410 898-2
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028941089823
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Corelli in London
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English Concert, Lawrence Cummings
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Harmonia Mundi HMU 907523
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093046752323
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Telemann: Ouverture 'la Bourse', Suiten
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Il Fondamento
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Passacaille PAS910
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5425004849106
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Bach: Complete Orchestral Suites
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The Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
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Telarc CD-80619
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089408061929
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Handel: Ouverturen: Music For the Hamburg Opera
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Academy of Ancient Music, Berlin.
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Harmonia Mundi HMC 901852
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794881766925
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Alexandre Tharaud Plays Rameau
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Alexandre Tharaud
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Harmonia Mundi HMC 901754
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794881650224
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Mozart: Complete Piano Variations
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Ronald Brautigam
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BIS BIS-CD-1266/1267
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7318591266679
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Lusty Gallant – Music of England’s Golden Age
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Paul O’Dette
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Harmonia Mundi 2907368
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093046736828
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Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore
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New London Consort, Philip Pickett
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L'Oiseau Lyre 414 633-2
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028941463326
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Bach: Orchestral Suites 2-4
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Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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EMI Classics 69878
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724356987920
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Instruments from the Raymond Russell Collection, Vol. II [for Sarabande from Handel’s Suite in D Minor]
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John Kitchen
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Delphian DCD 34039
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801918340390
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John Come Kiss Me Now [for “Nobody’s Jig,”]
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La Beata Olanda
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Carpe Diem CD-16273
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4032324162733
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Les Grandes Eaux Musicales de Versailles
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Les talents lyriques, Christophe Rousset
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Ambroisie AM167
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822186001677
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Eleven-String Baroque [for Pachelbel Lute Suite gigue]
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Goran Sollscher
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Deutsche Grammophon B0003000-02
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028947481522
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Telemann: Suites
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English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
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Archiv 439893
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0028943755825
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Buxtehude & Pachelbel Chamber Music
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Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel
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Archiv 427 118-2
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028942711822
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*Multi-disc recordings indicated as disc#/track#
