Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C first page (Breitkopf, 1885)

This past week, there was a Carnegie Hall broadcast which inspired me to really learn Bach’s Orchestral Suites. These are pieces which even a non-musician has probably heard snippets of here and there, from the playful Badinerie of the 2nd to the Air from the 3rd. But, for me at least, they tend to jumble together in my mind. I really want to learn their differences, and the individual personalities of each. So, I brought a bit of a rule, and chose these pieces in spite of the fact that they are not new to me by any stretch of the imagination.