I. Orchestral Music
1.Bach Orchestral Suite no. 3 BWV 1068 (includes the “Air for G String”)
just the “air”
“Voices of Music”
Singapore Symphony playing the Stokowiski arrangement
2.Three performances of the 2nd Brandenburg Concerto
Brandenburg Concerto No 2 (filmed in Coethen where Bach composed the music)
Freiburger Barockorchestra (notice the “low” Baroque pitch when compared with the Abbado performance)
Brandenburg Concerto No 2
From the Teatro Municipale Romolo Valli, Reggio Emilia, 21 April 2007
Orchestra Mozart, conducted by Claudio Abbado
Brandenburg Concerto No 2
Karl Richter with the Munich Bach Orchestra at 20:51
II. Organ Music
Two performances of the Toccata and Fugue in d BWV 565
Karl Richter
Two performances of the Prelude and Fugue in E flat BWV 552 (“St Ann”)
David Szabo at the Palace of Arts in Budapest
arranged by Arnold Schoenberg for orchestra
Passacaglia and Fugue in c BWV 582
organist Hans-André Stamm on the Trost-Organ in Waltershausen, Germany.
III. Solo music
1. Cello Suites
#6 in D Major
B. Rostropovich
C. Casals
complete
IV. Klavier
A. “French” suites
Andras Schiff (piano), complete
Alan Curtis (harpsichord), complete
B. Well Tempered Klavier
Maurizio Pollini (complete vol I)
Kimiko Ishizaka (complete vol I)
Andras Schiff (complete vol I)
C. The Goldberg Variations
V. Cantatas, Passions
A. St. Matthew Passion
Biller with the St Thomas choir (partial)
B. B minor Mass
St Thomas Kirche
C. Cantatas, etc.
A. Cantata #140
B. Canatata #82, “Ich habe genug”
Edwin Crossley-Mercer
C. Magnificat
D. Christmas Oratorio
VI. Documentaries
St. Thomas Choir in Leipzig (German with subtitles)
Bach: A Passionate Life (Elliot Gardiner’s companion to his book)