What is the best Bach recording?

What is the best Bach recording?

Here’s our list of Essential Bach Recordings.

• My Favorite Bach: Six Favorite Cantatas BWV 147, 80, 140, 8, 51, 78.
• Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.
• Bach Organ Works.
• Bach Arrangements.
• Magnificat from Cantata 51: Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen.
• Sinfonias.
• The English Suites.
• Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.

What is the most well known of Bach’s keyboard works?

Taken from the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier, the Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846 is among Bach’s most famous works and occupies a special place within classical music.

Is Bach Well-Tempered Clavier hard?

Some of the preludes alone are not as difficult to learn as the combination of both prelude and fugue together. This is down to the fact that the fugues are written in a complex polyphonic way that is always a major challenge to play well.

Are there any original recordings of Bach?

The earliest recording of a segment from a ‘real’ Bach’s vocal work is probably from c1917. The earliest recordings of Bach’s solo keyboard works are probably by Violet Gordon-Woodhouse from 1922. There are piano rolls of Busoni playing his Bach transcriptions from 1920-1921.

Which is the best Bach Passion?

St Matthew Passion
This monumental St Matthew Passion is hailed as the greatest setting of the Passion story in western music, but surprisingly it was not until almost 100 years after its premiere that Bach’s music got the recognition it deserved.

What is JS Bach The Well Tempered Clavier?

The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893, is two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer’s time clavier, meaning keyboard, referred to a variety of instruments, most typically the harpsichord or clavichord but not excluding the organ.

Are Bach inventions easy?

Re: Easiest of the bach inventions? True. Although I would assume those are more difficult than the Inventions which I still struggle to play. Yes, they are a bit more complicated, since they all have 3 voice counterpoint.

Who is the best Bach pianist?

Glenn Herbert Gould
Glenn Herbert Gould (/ɡuːld/; né Gold; 25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was one of the best-known and most celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach….

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What are the best Bach recordings on ECM?

The first, a Decca recording from the 1980s, is poised and lyrical, if occasionally verging on the self-indulgent; the later, 2012 version on ECM would be my desert island choice. Schiff’s mature vision is more abstract, less sentimental: as such, we hear Bach’s music distilled to its essence, rather than the pianist’s personality.

Which instrument is most suitable for Bach’s ’48 piano works’?

Written ‘for the use and profit of musical youth’, the first of the two books of the ‘48’ appeared in 1722, the second following some 20 years later – a period when Bach played an active role in the development of various keyboard instruments. There is no easy answer to the question of which type of instrument is most suitable for these works.

Where can I find a list of all the Bach recordings?

[The entire list on Amazon (on CDs) can be found here and, alas incomplete/patched, as MP3s here. A Spotify playlist can be found Spotify List: Top Ten Bach Recordings, Forbes, but since Spotify lacks numerous labels and good meta-data, it has been padded with second and third choices.

What is Bach’s collection “Bach”?

Bach ’s collection of 48 Preludes and Fugues in all the major and minor keys has long been a bible for keyboard players, and was the inspiration for similar sets by Busoni, Chopin, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich, among others.