Johann Sebastian Bach

condition (record/cover): VG (some  surface noise) /  VG (general wear) Released October 1968. Ten Bach pieces, each recorded note-by-note on an eight-track machine because the Moog modular was monophonic. Roughly 1,100 working hours of overdubbing. …

Before the epigones take over the stage we are given a chance to hear out Bach himself: the unfinished four-voice Contrapunctus XIV from the Art of the Fugue marks the starting point of Andreas Grau's and Götz Schumacher's remarkable exploration of t…

Bach's three gamba sonatas BWV 1027-1029, played on cello and accordion, alternating with Adriana Hölszky's Wolke und Mond, Miserere and Nouns to Nouns II, by Julius Berger and Stefan Hussong. Recorded 2001 and 2003.

András Schiff plays both books of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (BWV 846-893) on piano, recorded in August 2011 at the Auditorio RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher. Four CDs, ECM New Series 2270-73, 2012.

András Schiff plays Bach's Capriccio BWV 992, Inventions and Sinfonias, Four Duets, Ricercar à 3 and Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue on a 2003 Joris Potvlieghe copy of a 1743 Specken clavichord. Recorded July 2018 at the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn; produced b…

Kim Kashkashian plays Bach’s six cello suites BWV 1007-1012 on viola, the Sixth on a five-string viola by Francesco Bissolotti. Recorded November 2016 and February 2017 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.

Thomas Zehetmair’s second recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin BWV 1001-1006, on two Baroque violins with gut strings. Recorded August 2016 at Propstei St. Gerold, Vorarlberg; released 2019.

Swiss cellist Thomas Demenga’s second recording of Bach’s six cello suites BWV 1007-1012, played with gut strings and a Baroque bow. Recorded February 2014 at the Hans Huber-Saal, Basel; released 2017.

Michelle Makarski (violin) and Keith Jarrett (piano) in Bach's six sonatas for violin and keyboard, BWV 1014-1019. Recorded November 2010 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.

András Schiff plays Bach's six keyboard Partitas, BWV 825-830, on two CDs, in his own order (5, 3, 1, 2, 4, 6). Recorded live on 21 September 2007 at the Historischer Reitstadel, Neumarkt; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Bach's complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, BWV 1001-1006, played by Gidon Kremer on two CDs. Partitas recorded September 2001 at the Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus, Lockenhaus; sonatas recorded March 2002 in Riga.

Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (24 preludes and fugues, BWV 846-869) played by Austrian pianist Till Fellner on two CDs, his ECM debut. Recorded September-October 2002 at the Jugendstiltheater, Vienna; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Thomas Demenga (cello) plays Bach's Cello Suites Nos. 5 and 6 between chamber works by Toshio Hosokawa and Isang Yun, with Teodoro Anzellotti, Asako Urushihara, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Thomas Larcher, Aurèle Nicolet and Heinz Holliger. Recorded 1985-…

Keith Jarrett plays Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book I (BWV 846-869) in concert at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, New York, on 7 March 1987. Archival recording first released in 2019.

Anja Lechner's first solo cello album for ECM New Series: Bach's Cello Suites Nos. 1 and 2 framed by viola da gamba pieces by Tobias Hume and Carl Friedrich Abel, played with a Baroque bow. Recorded May 2023, Himmelfahrtskirche Sendling, Munich.

Paul Giger (violin, violino d'amore) with Marie-Louise Dähler, Pudi Lehmann, Franz Vitzthum and the Carmina Quartett in his own pieces and Bach, much of it from a film score on Giovanni Segantini. Recorded January 2015 in Maloja, with Guggisberglied …

Bach organ chorale preludes, cantata arias and a sinfonia transcribed by Fred Thomas for piano trio and solo piano, played by Thomas with Aisha Orazbayeva (violin) and Lucy Railton (cello); recorded 2012 and 2018 at the University of Huddersfield.

Fifth and final volume of the Danish String Quartet's Prism series: Beethoven's String Quartet No. 16 Op. 135, Webern's String Quartet (1905), Bach's chorale prelude BWV 668 and Contrapunctus 14. Recorded June 2021 at the Festsal KFUM/KFUK, Copenhage…

Fourth volume of the Danish String Quartet's Prism series: Bach's Fugue in G minor BWV 861 (arr. Förster), Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15 Op. 132 and Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 2 Op. 13. Recorded 2018-2019 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt; produc…

Third volume of the Danish String Quartet's Prism series: Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 Op. 131, Bartók's String Quartet No. 1 and Bach's Fugue BWV 849 (arr. Förster). Recorded November 2017 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt; produced by Manfred Eicher…