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https://www.classicalwcrb.org/blog/2020-05-21/a-guide-to-the-many-bachs

https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Bach-Johann-Bernhard.htm

In the Baroque era the suite was more precisely defined, with the pieces unified by key, and consisting of dances usually preceded by a prelude or overture. The suite was also known as Suite de danses, Ordre (the term favored by François Couperin) or Partita. In the eighteenth century, the term ouverture or overture may refer to the entire suite, as it does with the orchestral suites of Bach. 
 History

Estienne du Tertre published suyttes de bransles in 1557, giving the first general use of the term "suite" 'suyttes' in music, although the usual form of the time was as pairs of dances. The first recognizable suite is Peuerl's Newe Padouan, Intrada, Dantz, and Galliarda of 1611, in which the four dances of the title appear repeatedly in ten suites. The Banchetto musicale by Johann Schein (1617) contains 20 sequences of five different dances.

The "classical" suite consisted of allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue, in that order, and developed during the 17th century in France, the gigue appearing later than the others. Johann Jakob Froberger is usually credited with establishing the classical suite through his compositions in this form, which were widely published and copied, although this was largely due to his publishers standardizing the order; Froberger's original manuscripts have many different orderings of the movements, e.g. the gigue preceding the sarabande. The publisher's standardized order was, however, highly influential especially on the works of Bach.

Many later suites included other movements placed between sarabande and gigue. These optional movements were known as galanteries: common examples are the minuet, gavotte, passepied, and bourree. Often there would be two contrasting galanteries with the same name, e.g. Minuet I and II, to be played alternativement, meaning that the first dance is played again after the second, thus I, II, I.

The later addition of an overture to make up an "overture-suite" was extremely popular with German composers; Telemann claimed to have written over 200 overture-suites, J.S. Bach had his four orchestral suites along with other suites, and George Frideric Handel put his Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks in this form.

Handel wrote 22 keyboard suites; Bach produced multiple suites for lute, cello, violin, flute, and other instruments, as well as English suites, French suites and Partitas for keyboard. For Bach especially, the suite form was a base on which to spin more elaborate sequences. François Couperin's later suites often dispensed entirely with the standard dances and consisted entirely of character pieces with fanciful names.

By the 1750s, the suite had come to be seen as old-fashioned, superseded by the symphony and concerto, and few composers were still writing suites during that time. But since the 19th century composers have frequently arranged ballets, operas and other works into suites for concert performance. Arrangement into a suite can make the music more accessible and available to a wider audience, and has greatly helped popularize the music itself, such as in Tchaikovsky's suite from The Nutcracker, or Aaron Copland's suite from Appalachian Spring. Orchestral suites usually consist of one or more movements. An example of this could be Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt 

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Baroque Orchestral Suites from Cousins Bach & Others

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Mixed Baroque

Concerti grossi op. 6

Concerto grosso op. 6 no. 5 in D major HWV323: V. Allegro

Bach: Orchestral Suites for a Young Prince

Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D-Major, After BWV 1069: IV. Menuettes I & II

Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D-Major, After BWV 1069: III. Gavotte

Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D-Major, After BWV 1069: II. Bourrées I & II

Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D-Major, After BWV 1069: I. Ouverture

Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D-Major, After BWV 1069: V. Réjouissance

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, Fantasia on "Greensleeves" & Orchestral Works

Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis (Sinfonia of London) (Remastered 2022, Version 1962)

Grand Tour a Venezia

Ouverture No. 6 in G Minor: I: Allegro

Rameau - Zaïs 
Les Talens Lyriques - Christophe Rousset
AP109 
Available on september 2015

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Rameau - Zaïs (Ouverture)Les Talens Lyriques-Christophe Rousset

Tallis: Spem in alium; The Lamentations of Jeremiah

Spem in alium

Telemann: Ouvertures à 8

Ouverture for 3 Oboes, Bassoon, Strings and Basso Continuo in D Major, TWV55:D15: V. Harlequinade

Ouverture No. 6 in G Minor: I: Allegro

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