French Suite No. 1 in D Minor, BWV812
French Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV813
French Suite No. 3 in B Minor, BWV814
French Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV815
French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV816
French Suite No. 6 in E major, BWV817

There is little to say about the skill of Evgeni Koroliov, the Russian pianist who has settled in Germany, which has not been said already. Ligeti’s famous saying that he would choose to take Koroliov’s recording of the “Art of Fugue” (TACET 13) to a desert island, where he was "lonely and thirsting", has been frequently quoted; and Koroliov’s almost unbelievable capability of expressing each part in a polyphonic piece as clearly as if it were an individual person has been given many accolades. Those listeners who love his piano performance, and his Bach in particular, need no explanations of how subtly he expresses the nuances of the mood of individual moments and even individual notes. It is for all these people that he has made a new recording of Bach’s French Suites – two CDs for the price of one.