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So much Bach, where do I start?

I think I could really get into J.S. Bach, but I want to start with music that has characteristics I know I like.
Likes:
up tempo,
percussive/choppy
different voices simultainously playing different melodic lines,
modern recording,
virtuosity (duh)

Dislikes:
harpsicords,
organs (from what little I've heard...no percussive faculty)
quiet music (for the moment)

I've been researching some with Napster and for soloists I like really like Casalas and Segovia, but the recording quality is kind of distracting to me. I also quite like the Double Violin Conerto Viviance (even despite the harpsicord ;) it's the only non-solo music I've found so far) and the piano Fugue stuff.
So, any particular CDs to check out? I need something to compliment my first good stereo system!
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Piano: English Suites, French Suites, Sonatas and Partitas, Well-Tempered Clavier, Art of the Fugue, 2 and 3 Part Inventions, Notebooks of Anna Magdalena Bach.  Glenn Gould is idiosyncratic but great, Angela Hewitt a great contemporary Bach interpreter.

Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, Itzhak Perlman, Hillary Hahn among contemporary artists.

Solo Cello Suites, Yo-Yo Ma. 

Violin Concertos, Oboe Concertos.

Chorale, Motets, in addition to what others have named. 

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