"This new set by Parmentier is the type of thing that pretty much eclipses everybody else's recording of the English Suites.  It's multidimensional playing.  As with the essential Partitas set, he clarifies levels of the music that seem lacking when other people are playing.  And the recorded sound is, as usual, also clear."

Bradley Lehman

Re: Suite No. 6 \BWV 811:
".....the gigue-quite amazing! [Stirred my] curiosity which made me want to look at the score which I have in storage..."

"Then, the whole suite--what elegant music and what elegant music-making."

"...then the first CD-the a minor suite.  I took a class from Alice Ehlers
in the 60's ...and this is perhaps the first time since then that I'd
heard the piece, which, (especially with its Italianate prelude), I'd
forgotten how much I loved..."

"The sarabande of the g minor is one of the saddest songs I know."

"Thank you very, very much, Joseph.  This is a prize!"

Paul Vorwerk, conductor