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Radio 3,11 Apr 2012,20 mins

Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4

Discovering Music

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Stephen Johnson explores how Leipzig's thriving coffee society found its perfect counterpart in the music of J.S. Bach, and the orchestral suites which he performed amongst the clinking cups and impassioned conversations. And Bach being Bach, he found ingenious ways of encapsulating this unpromising performing environment in his music.

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