Shura Cherkassky joue SUITE DE PIÈCES de Jean-Baptiste Lully

Amsterdam Prinsengracht Concert 1992 The so-called Suite de Pièces was not actually assembled by Lully. Lully’s fame was so great that his editors often collected his dances and published them as keyboard suites. These transcriptions from Lully’s operas and ballets were particularly abundant in the nineteenth century and appeared in editions produced by Théodore Lack and Louis Oesterle. Shura Cherkassky permormed Lully’s Suite de Pièces utilizing as a point of musical departure Oesterle’s edition published by un 1904. Cherkassky changes the order of the pieces, making the suite more cohesive, and adds his own touches of ornementation in a very Romantic style. N.B: In this concert, doesn’t play “Sarabande“ and “Gigue“. La soi-disant Suite de Pièces n’a pas en réalité été assemblée par Lully. La notoriété de Lully était si grande que ses éditeurs rassemblaient souvent ses danses et les publiaient comme suites pour clavier. Ces transcriptions des opéras de Lully et des ballets étaient