 | Bach: The Toccatas by Johann Sebastian Bach
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $14.98 The imagination of a young musician.
I would recommend a version played by Pommier on EMI, but it's out of stock. This Hewitt (maybe too) gentle version is recommended (also on the piano).
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 | Bach: The Organ Works (Box Set)
Buy new: $86.49 / Used from: $52.94 Whether we like or dislike, it's impossible to pass up the organ works... Trio sonatas BWV 525-530, BWV 542, 565, 582, 639, Schübler Chorales BWV 645-650. Also consider Peter Hurford (except for the Schübler Chorales).
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 | Bach: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.85 At the Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen court.
A very pleasant version on modern instruments, it's sensible and polished, perfect for this Royal kind of music.
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 | David Oistrakh
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $11.26 At the Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen court (part II).
David Oistrakh.
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 | Johann Sebastian Bach: 6 Brandenburg Concertos / 4 Orchestral Suites - The English Concert / Trevor Pinnock
Buy new: $32.98 / Used from: $16.19 Dedication to Margrave of Brandenburg (1721).
The quality of the sound make this version a reference. Also to discover, Il Giardino Armonico, both on period instruments.
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 | Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $16.51 The virtuoso's Bach.
Partita Nos 2 & 3.
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 | Bach: The 6 Unaccompanied Cello Suites
Buy new: $15.93 / Used from: $13.50 The virtuoso's Bach Part II.
Suites Nos 1 & 3.
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 | J.S Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $22.98 For the practice and enjoyment (1722).
Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues (1744).
The two books are generally regarded as one of the most influential works in the history of Western Classical Music.
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 | Bach: Fantasia in C minor; Two-Part Inventions; Three-Part Inventions; Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $14.70 Inventions & Suites.
Again, I prefer Pommier version on EMI, but Hewitt's one is also recommended.
Two-Part Inventions.
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 | Bach: The Six French Suites
Buy used from: $22.38 Six suites written by Johann Sebastian Bach for the clavier. This version features Schiff on the piano, it also include the Italian Concerto.
Suites Nos 2, 4 & 5.
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 | Bach - Cantatas BWV 140, 147 / Holton, Chance, Rolfe Johnson, Varcoe, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $47.69 Two cantatas of Bach you can't ignore, even if your not very familiar with the genre. Gardiner's interpretation with period instruments reveals the dignity of these masterpieces.
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 | Bach: 6 Partitas BWV 825-830
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $18.60 Clavier-Übung I (1731).
The six Partitas for clavier were the first works Bach published, after more than twenty years of composing. This version features Schiff on the piano.
Partita Nos 1, 2 & 4.
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 | Bach: Concertos for Oboe and Oboe d'Amore
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.87 Concertos for Oboe and Oboe d'amore.
BWV 1056, 1060, 1052, 1055 & 1062. Bach wrote a serie of harpsichord concertos, though much of the material he used is believed to have come from earlier unpublished woodwind concertos. Those original scores have been lost, but it has been possible to reconstruct the works for the oboe and oboe d'amore. A most enjoyable disc!
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 | Bach: Magnificat, BWV. 243; Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.27 Bach in exelcis.
The Magnificat in D major is one of the major vocal works of Bach. Another high-level Gardiner recording on period instruments.
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 | Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $5.45 Concertos for keyboard.
BWV 1054, 1056, 1057 & 1058. The fusion of timbres is so striking that the piano seems to be the ideal instrument for these concertos. The nuances are also very important, because the piano must answer to strings, which can exploit a whole palette of nuances.
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 | Bach: The Goldberg Variations
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.95 Clavier-Übung IV (1741).
In this 1955 interpretation, Gould manages to associate a fragile sweetness, plaintive passages without being precious, with a liveliness, a sober but frank going.
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 | Bach: The Art of Fugue / Musical Offering
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $3.53 A Musical Offering.
Nikolayeva: Track 1 (Ricercare a 3)
Marriner: Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 12, 16.
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 | Bach - Mass in B minor / Argenta, Nichols, Chance, Stafford, Milner, W. Evans, Gardiner by Johann Sebastian Bach
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $10.85 Bach's musical testament.
Considered to be among the greatest choral works of all time, the supreme achievements of "classical" music.
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 | Bach: Die Kunst der Fugue
Buy new: $45.98 / Used from: $25.99 The Art of Fugue.
Walcha: Canonic Variations, BWV 769
Marriner: Track 1 (Contrapunctus 1)
Nikolayeva: Tracks 13, 11
Marriner: Track 15 (Contrapunctus 11)
Nikolayeva: Track 15 (Canon)
Marriner: Track 22 (Fuga A 3 Sogetti [Unfinished])
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