On April 22, FT unveils the second advance release from his forthcoming album Bach: The 6 French Suites, to be released on June 19 on naïve. This new preview comes as a double single featuring French Suite in G major, BWV 816 – 4. Gavotte and 5. Bourrée, offering a deeper insight into the character and flow of the suite.
Francesco Tristano announces the release of Bach: The 6 French Suites BWV 812 to 817, out on June 19 on naïve. The album continues his exploration of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach, following The 6 Partitas, The 6 English Suites and The 7 Toccatas, and forms part of his ongoing project to record Bach’s complete works for keyboard, developed through his platform intothefuture.
The first single, Bach: French Suite in D minor BWV 812, 5. Menuet II is now available on all platforms. This initial release offers a clear introduction to the character of the recording and its approach to Bach’s writing.
Composed between 1722 and 1725, the French Suites offer a more intimate and lyrical perspective on Bach’s music. Built around a sequence of dance movements, the works unfold with clarity, balance and a natural sense of flow. In this recording, FT focuses on continuity and contrast, shaping each suite as a complete musical arc while bringing out the expressive depth and melodic quality of the music.
The project also extends beyond sound through an ongoing collaboration with photographer Breno Rotatori, whose images accompany each release and form a parallel visual language. Together, they create a unified artistic universe where music and image evolve side by side.
The new FT music label, IntotheFuture, is a journey in the broadest sense. Focusing on exploring new formats and bringing together styles, Intothefuture looks to the future with an eye toward the past.
The label’s first release is Bach The 6 English Suites, a recording which presents the music as constantly evolving, without repeats or comebacks.
Paris was the setting for the recording of Bach The 6 English Suites at the end of 2022. FT shows his talent in viewing Bach’s scores as an ever-changing universe of formal complexity and artistic value with these compositions of great formal complexity.
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