Ouverture from Orchestral Suite No3 in D BWV 1068

Chiltern Recorder Consort Series

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March- 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. Since the 19th-century Bach revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. 

Alex Ayre was a British recorder teacher and performer who arranged over 500 pieces, of mainly English Renaissance and Baroque music, for recorder ensembles. 

The four orchestral suites BWV 1066–1069 (called ouvertures by their composer), are four suites by Johann Sebastian Bach from the years 1724-1731. The name ouverture refers only in part to the opening movement in the style of the French overture, in which a majestic opening section in relatively slow dotted-note rhythm in duple meter is followed by a fast fugal section, then rounded off with a short recapitulation of the opening music. More broadly, the term was used in Baroque Germany for a suite of dance-pieces in French Baroque style preceded by such an ouverture.

Score: 24 pages. 5 parts @ 3 to 11 pages ea.