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The French Suites have a special place among Bachs keyboard works. Besides containing music as profound and poetic as any Bach wrote, their textures have a transparency and sparkle that reflects a move towards the galant style fashionable among Bachs contemporaries. In this, the third instalment of Peter Hills acclaimed Bach series, Hill has chosen to follow the suites with his own completion of Mozarts Suite in C, K399. With Bach and Handel as his models, this work epitomises Mozarts fascination with Baroque music. Hills celebrated return to the studio with Delphian four years ago continues to reap rich artistic rewards, with a Diapason dOr and a recent Gramophone Award nomination for his premiere recording of Messiaens rediscovered La Fauvette passerinette; here in Bach, too, his abundant energy and passion are deeply informed by a lifetime of scholarship.