Like an Around the World and Back snap, Bach’s Suite in B Minor for Flute and Strings takes the listener pretty much everywhere. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll dance fast and slow, you’ll wonder if you’re Polish or French, yet feel German. But don’t worry: Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music professor and flutist Leone Buyse will be your guide on this musical (spiritual?) journey.

Flutist Leone Buyse. Photo by David Long. Courtesy of leonebuyse.com.

Audio production by Todd “Tobias” Hulslander with Fünke by Dacia Clay.

Music in this episode: – J.S. Bach – Suite in B-Minor for Flute and Orchestra as played by Barthold Kuijken and Emmanuel Pahud (respectively)

For more about Leone Buyse: www.leonebuyse.com