Your favorite J.S. Bach

Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould second version (first is still good)
4th partita - Willian Kappel
Cello Suits - Paolo Beschi on Winter&Winter (this is pretty much the best quality recording ive ever hear) recorded on period baroque cello with no processing in an italian villa...it sounds pretty much perfect, and the performance is excellent.

Another vote for Nathan Milstein's sonatas and partitas.

I'm also partial to the cello suites, but I prefer Starker's readings on Mercury.

I'll second the votes for Milstein's violin sonatas and partitas on DG and for Pierre Fournier's cello suites on DG.

I find lute player Nigel North' version of the cello suites fantastic, he has transformed the suites' basic two part inventions into beautiful, at times almost orchestral sounding, 3 and 4 part harmony, while still maintaining the intimacy of the suites.
His phrasing is as natural as breathing.
I rank his interpretations as good as Bylsma and Wispelwey.
Linn is having a sale on the complete collection of ''Bach on the Lute'' right now.
Highly recommended.

Gould, 2nd Goldberg; Lucy Van Dael, unaccompanied violin S&P;Eliot Fisk or Oscar Ghiglia, guitar transcriptions