Monday, March 31, 2025

A student, Bach’s “Bourrée anglaise” for solo flute, and a coincidence

Today, I commented on a week's worth of texts by several students from my class "111 Words a Day: A Writring Project." In one text, Celine mentioned hearing Johann Sebastian Bach's flute composition "Bourrée anglaise", which reminded her of her sister. As I love Bach's works for flute, I checked and discovered that it is the third movement of the Partita in A Minor for Solo Flute. Although I mostly listen to Bach's Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord, I noticed that I have that partita on an album by Peter-Lukas Graf. When I mentioned that in my comments on her text, Celine said that was the very version she had heard. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 31 March 2025)

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