Bach Recommendations


Bach is my favorite composer. Please recommend his best recordings. I'm making a Christmas list!

TIA

klimt

For Bach Organ:

The greatest for me is Marie Claire Alain...Pick one of his many integrals of Bach organ...i recommend this one :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeJrv5SNZmo&list=PLxXjllvtBC_rRInshy8w7jGiypzlCU_7X&index=19

For Bach  Harpsichord:

A woman whose life could beat any novel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0npjHOVgJ8g&list=PLG8FqPi7zOyiggn8cJ-9BJ99fNBbSQbhI

 

Now you must read Ruzickova autobiography :

https://www.amazon.ca/One-Hundred-Miracles-Auschwitz-Survival/dp/1408896842

A masterpiece deeply moving explaining by events in his life why this harpsichordist, who make too much shadow on the greatest modern harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt who criticize his playing on modern harpsichord, is in my opinion the greatest one....

 

 

 

Don’t overlook his choral masterpieces—B minor mass, cantatas, St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, etc.  If I had to pick one Bach work, it would be the B Minor mass.  There are many great performances, like the 1962 Karl Richter recording, and one should own many different ones.

6 Trio Sonatas by Robert King: King's Consort
Bach Lute Works by Stephan Schmidt
The Well-Tempered Clavier by Till Fellner
Bach: Actus Tragicus Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot
 

Double Concerto in D minor with Isaac Stern & Itzhak Perlman. Have it on an old LP and and a remastered CD. Maybe not the best audiophile recording, but for pure Bach, I have never heard anything that compares.