Your favorite J.S. Bach


On 28 July 1750 J.S.Bach died. Lets hear what are you going to "spin" tonight to celebrate the remembrance to one of the greatest gifts to humanity?!

Goldberg Variations by Vladimir Feltsman (please listen to the 1. Aria)
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For me Bach's organ music is in a class by itself--inexhaustible. I've got a shelf full of it. My current favorites are Toccatas and Fugues, Joan Lippincott plays the Flentrop organ of Duke University Chapel, Gothic (a 1997 release), and Preludes and Fugues, Joan Lippincott plays the Paul Fritts organ of Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, Gothic (a 2002 release). Major music, superb performances on well-chosen instruments, state-of-the-art sound. The cumulative power of Lippincott's performance of the great Passacaglia in C Minor BWV 582) is spellbinding.
I'll second the votes for Milstein's violin sonatas and partitas on DG and for Pierre Fournier's cello suites on DG.