The Sarabanda con Partite [Sarabande with variations], attributed in the sources to Johann Sebastian Bach, presents the interesting and not too often encountered linking of a variation sequence and a suite. A harmonic bass pattern is developed over a succession of twelve variations and four dance movements.

This new edition once again makes accessible a work which in all probability was composed in the 18 th century, and in so doing draws upon newly discovered sources. This rendering of the S...