Bach Recommendations

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

TIA

klimt12-08-2025 8:02pm

klimt OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 297 posts 12-12-2025 at 09:37pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete This is great!@ Thanks guys!
apm18 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 5 posts 12-13-2025 at 10:40pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete A few favorites of mine: Cello Suites - Starker or Rostropovich recordings Goldberg Variations - Gould Art of the Fugure (arr. for string quartet) - Emerson String Quartet Violin Partitas - Hahn (1997)
mahler123 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 4,033 posts 12-18-2025 at 12:10pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I prefer Bach on the piano. I have many harpsichord albums but always wind up preferring piano. My favorite Bach Pianist is little known: Sergey Schepkin, who records on the Boston based Ongaku label
mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 15,052 posts 12-18-2025 at 02:47pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I love Schepkin rhytmic pulse mastery as much as Feltsman sensible touch and unable to pick one over the other... I too prefer piano to harpsichord but it does not impact my love for harpsichord... I cannot live without any of the two ... I prefer Bach on the piano. I have many harpsichord albums but always wind up preferring piano. My favorite Bach Pianist is little known: Sergey Schepkin, who records on the Boston based Ongaku label