Marc-André Hamelin’s Suite à l’ancienne is, as the title might suggest, a Baroque-style suite in six movements, each with the unmistakable wit and virtuosity that characterizes Hamelin’s compositions.

Hamelin’s Praémbule takes J. S. Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy as the jumping off point for a wild flight of fancy followed by, the deceptively amiable amble of the Allemende, the moto perpetuo sprint of the Corrente, the decadent embroidery of the Air avec agréments, and the Gavotte et Musette’s cont...