The six suites were recorded for DVD in June 2005. The following links illustrate two of the view options available on this 3-DVD set.
Prelude of Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major
Performance with score
Score and Manuscripts
The manuscripts edition includes a line by line layout of the copies made by Anna Magdalena Bach and Johann Peter Kellner, facilitating the comparison of these two primary sources, as seen below. This is available on the DVD set in pdf format.
This example from the Prelude of Suite No. 1 in G Major illustrates the agreement of the two sources in the third beat of measure 26 - a point of disagreement in many standard editions.
The letters in parenthesis refer to the different sources as follows:
A Anna Magdalena Bach manuscript, written between 1727 and 1731. B Johann Peter Kellner manuscript, part of a large volume of Bach's works copied by Kellner,
including part of the violin sonatas and partitas in which he wrote the date 1726.C "Westphal" manuscript, made by two anonymous copyists, dating from the second half of
the 18th century; discovered in 1830 in the estate of Johann Christoph Westphal, a
Hamburg organist, printer, and music dealer.D "Traeg" manuscript, made by an anonymous copyist, dating from toward the end of
the 18th century, offered for sale in 1799 by the Viennese art and music dealer
Johann Traeg.E First Edition, published by Janet et Cotelle in Paris in approximately 1824; according to
the preface of the edition, it is based on an unidentified manuscript found in
Germany by the cellist Pierre Norblin (1781-1854).H J.S. Bach autograph manuscript of Suite No. 3 in G Minor for Lute, BWV 995, written
between 1727 and 1731.