Favourite Bach performances not on original instruments

[verismissimo]

It's GG for me.

[MrGongGong]

[gurnemanz]

Das Wohltemperierte Clavier - Edwin Fischer, Keith Jarrett (Book 1)
Boult Brandenburgs

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's GG for me.

... yes, his #17 is very good

I'm a Gould enthusiast, too - and Edwin Fischer in the 48 - and another thumbs up for Denk's Goldbergs
RVW's Live St Matthew Passion
Fritz Busch's Brandenburgs (and I'm very fond of Boult's, too - and I love Karajan's later recording)
Menuhin & Enescu in the Violin Concertos
Enescu's solo Violin recordings (the one saving grace of the monstrous "Bach Month" of a few years ago)
Ferrier, of course - and Janet Baker and Gundula Janowitz in individual arias.
And I'm just discovering Grimieaux (? - How many vowels does a chap need?!)

I don't seem to like "middle-road" performances (Marriner, Munchinger, Leppard, Richter, I Musici, ASMF, ECO - 'tho' Britten's Brandenburgs remain a favourite) - full-cream or skimmed - but not semi - for me!

[richardfinegold]

Wendy Carlos' Bach on the Moog!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wendy Carlos' Bach on the Moog!

I second rfg's and add a - but isn't this an "original instrument"?

[kea]

I like Schiff's 48 (the early one), some Gould, some Hewitt, Koroliov's French Overture & Italian Concerto, JSQ's Art of Fugue. Paul Galbraith playing the Sonatas & Partitas on guitar is fairly nice too.

[silvestrione]

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...

Great anecdote, revealing one too...must have missed that I on R, to which, like many on these boards, I was addicted. I did get rid of my HvK Bach LPs, though (Brandenburgs, haven't heard the suites).

My choice is the live first book of the Bach 48 played by Richter, recorded in Moscow, on the defunct Revelation label. Richter's late Bach recordings, in that Phillips series, I find a little 'plain'.

[Flosshilde]

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

I thought the thread was going to be about transcriptions Bach made.

Perahia too on the piano

& I read that as pariah on the piano

[MrGongGong]

I second rfg's and add a - but isn't this an "original instrument"?

It is indeed

(I thought Wendy was Walter when this was recorded?)

[MickyD]

I second rfg's and add a - but isn't this an "original instrument"?

Ha ha, yes, circa 1967/8!

And yes indeed, Wendy was Walter then...I think when the later Brandenburgs were recorded, it was Wendy. I think there is material here for quite a few tasteless puns, but I will resist.

[Roehre]

Does Bach by the Swingle Singers count ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Does Bach by the Swingle Singers count ?

Indubi-dubi-dubi-dubi-dubi-tably.

[Nick Armstrong]

Indubi-dubi-dubi-dubi-dubi-tably.

bah-dum-tschhhhh

[verismissimo]

Does Bach by the Swingle Singers count ?

Too much vibrato for my taste, these days.