Johann Sebastian Bach: Suggested Listening

Violin Concertos BWV 1041, 1042, 1043
 Anne-Sophie Mutter, English Chamber Orchestra, EMI #47005
 (Try to get this one!)

Violin Concertos, Orchestral Suites #1-3, Concerto for Oboe and Violin
 Yehudi Menuhin, Bath Festival Orchestra, EMI/Seraphim #68517

Orchestral Suites #1-4
 Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, London Classics #30378

Brandenburg Concertos (1-6)
 Yehudi Menuhin, Bath Festival Orchestra, EMI/Seraphim #68516

Brandenburg Concertos (1-6)
Benjamin Britten, English Chamber Orchestra; Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, London #43847

Harpsichord Concertos
 Karl Richter, Ansbach Bach Week Soloists, Teldec #99873

Selections from Well Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in d minor
 Rosalyn Tureck Collection, vol. 4 VAI#1139

Various cantatas (including Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80)
 Helmuth Rilling, conductor  VOX #3039

Solo violin sonatas and partitas
 Henry Szeryng, or Itzhak Perlman or Arthur Grumiaux

Organ works
 Organists Helmuth Walcha or Marie-Claire Alain
 Fugue in g minor  BWV 578

Suggested reading:

The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents, edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel, W.W. Norton & Co.  This edition is still available, but there is a new, revised edition that was published in 1998.  It is also published by Norton – ISBN 0393-04558, edited by Christoph Wolff.

The New Grove Bach Family by Christoph Wolff, et al.  W. W. Norton and Co.
 

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