Favourite Bach performances not on original instruments

[Barbirollians]

Probably a better title than favourite non HIPP performances as they do not necessarily go together .

I have been very taken with the Abbado set of the Brandenburgs with the Orchestra Mozart but I should not say they were anything other than HIIP informed .

Non HIPPs - Lipatti's Partita No 1 , Ferrier in Bach especially that Karajan Passion as well as the Boult arias CD . Menuhin/Ferras in the Double Concerto and Britten's Brandenburgs all have lots to say . Perahia too on the piano.

[ostuni]

Jeremy Denk's Goldbergs. Richard Goode's Partitas.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Munchinger's St Matthew Passion, with excellent soloists and fine choral singing and orchestral playing. a touch of artificial cold-nose stereo innthe opening chorus from the Decca engineers, makes this uncomfortable for headphone listening.

His Christmas Oratorio is in the same league, but I'm less happy with his B Minor Mass and Brandenburgs. But the Suites sound well.

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Arthur Grumiaux playing the Violin Concertos - sublime by any standard.

[mathias broucek]

Jochum's EMI B minor Mass is terrific.

Off topic but the Richter/Gavrilov Handel Suites are stunning.

[richardfinegold]

Jeremy Denk's Goldbergs. Richard Goode's Partitas.

[richardfinegold]

Karajan's Galumphing Brandenbergs.........not!

[richardfinegold]

There are a lot of recordings I could mention here. Most of the Golden Age Fiddlers have had a crack at the Violin Concertos and the Solo Violin Works and there are many that satisfy: I'll nominate Milstein in the Sonatas and Partitas and the aforementioned Grumiaux in the Concertos. How about Casals or Ma in the Cello Suites? Does Glen Gould count? My favorite Bach Piainists are Schepkin, Angela Hewitt, Richter, Lipatti, Goode....there are to many.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

on piano all the Gould; all the Hyperion transcription series; Tureck; Fineberg

if it is not on original instruments in the HIPP sense of original instruments
then the 6th Brandeburg by Klemperer/Philharmonia has haunted me since my mid teens

[jayne lee wilson]

Almost any of Hermann Scherchen's Bach... The Matthew Passion (JVC/Westminster, VSOO/Laszlo/Majdan/Cuenod/Standen etc. - just try Standen and those Vienna strings in Mach dich mein herze, rein - it will change your life), The Art of the Fugue (MCD, VSO/VRO), and the Roger Vuataz instrumentation of the Musical Offering (Archipel)... this is musical performance as a profound meditation, the physical and metaphysical experience of sound.

[akiralx]

Karajan's Galumphing Brandenbergs.........not!

But don't forget that HvK's Berlin PO Bach Orchestral Suites were once insinuated anonymously into an Interpretations on Record programme on R3 - the delight with which they were received was only matched by the participants' horror when the performers' identity was revealed...

[akiralx]

Lisa de la Salle's Toccata in D, BWV912.

[MickyD]

Wendy Carlos' Bach on the Moog!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Karl Richter in the B Minor Mass

[mathias broucek]

But don't forget that HvK's Berlin PO Bach Orchestral Suites were once insinuated anonymously into an Interpretations on Record programme on R3 - the delight with which they were received was only matched by the participants' horror when the performers' identity was revealed...

LOL. I occasionally dust off Herbie's Handel Op 6. There's much that's anachronistic but some of the string playing is truly lovely.