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)
eldragon
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.
Rustler,
I am not trying to turn this thread in another direction, but what is the difference between an athiest and an "aggressive athiest"?
St. Matthew Passion, Gardiner is my long standing favourite, nowadays, however, I listen more the St. Johannes Passion, Harnancourt.
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.