Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Lilianna Stawarz
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Dux
Catalogue: DUX1739-40
Release: 2021
Size: 651 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
French Suite No. 1 in D Minor, BWV812
01. I. Allemande
02. II. Courante
03. III. Sarabande
04. IV. Menuet I
05. V. Menuet II
06. VI. Gigue
French Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV813
07. I. Allemande
08. II. Courante
09. III. Sarabande
10. IV. Air
11. V. Menuet I
12. VI. Menuet II
13. VII. Gigue
French Suite No. 3 in B Minor, BWV814
14. I. Allemande
15. II. Courante
16. III. Sarabande
17. IV. Anglaise
18. V. Menuet I
19. VI. Menuet II
20. V. Gigue
CD 02
French Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV815
01. I. Allemande
02. II. Courante
03. III. Sarabande
04. IV. Gavotte
05. V. Air
06. VI. Menuet
07. VII. Gigue
French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV816
08. I. Allemande
09. II. Courante
10. III. Sarabande
11. IV. Gavotte
12. V. Bourrée
13. VI. Loure
14. VII. Gigue
French Suite No. 6 in E major, BWV817
15. Ia. Prelude
16. Ib. Allemande
17. II. Courante
18. III. Sarabande
19. IV. Gavotte
20. Va. Menuet polonais
21. VIII. Menuet
22. Vc. Menuet polonaise da capo
23. VI. Bourrée
24. VII. Gigue
Liliana Stawarz presents a program of Bach’s French Suites. Liliana graduated in 1988 from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (the harpsichord class of Wladyslaw Klosiewicz). Two years later she gained a diploma from the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Rueil-Malmaison, where she studied with Huguette Dreyfus.
In 2012–2016 she served as Deputy Dean of the Department of Instrumental Studies and Musical Education and as a coordinator of the Concert Bureau at the Bialystok branch of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She is currently a Professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and Head of its Interdepartmental Faculty of Early Music. For twenty years she was a member of the Il Tempo Early Music Ensemble which focused on instrumental and vocal-instrumental music from early Baroque to the Classical period.
She made numerous recordings for radio, recorded five albums and participated in prestigious early music festivals with Il Tempo, in Poland and abroad (Bruges, Brussels, Utrecht, Moscow, New York, New Brunswick, Rome, Berlin). In 2018 she received the Fryderyk Award of the Polish recording industry in the category “Album of the Year – Early Music” for a live recording of Antonio Caldara’s oratorio Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo, released by Polish Radio.