Favourite Bach performances not on original instruments

[doversoul1]

Does Bach by the Swingle Singers count ?

… and the Jacques Loussier Trio?

[MrGongGong]

bah-dum-tschhhhh

Surely you mean

bucket-of-fish

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Too much vibrato for my taste, these days.

I wish.

[gamba]

I wish.

Cello suites on bass viol - no thank you.

3 suites for bass viol played on cello ( very common - both meanings of the word ! )

[BBMmk2]

My favourite is Arnold Schoenberg's transcription, of prelude and Fugue in Eb, "St Ann", BWV537. Admirably played by the BBCPO/Slatkin on Chandos. I do rather like how Slatkin conducts. He had a bad time at the BBC

[Pabmusic]

Here's my take (I have a few hours of internet!!).

I've conducted mainly amateurs, and they (on the whole) are not versed in HIPP. Therefore, you have to play Bach like a friend you haven't seen for absolutely yonks - familiar, but perhaps unfamiliar as well. Thus I find Boult's recordins of the Brandenburgs (massed strings, romantic bowing, but crisp, alert rhythms and 'unusual' instruments, like recorders and harpsichords) essential listening. Britten produced much the same marriage of old and new.

[cloughie]

… and the Jacques Loussier Trio?

...or Beach boys Lady Lynda?

[BBMmk2]

Procul Harum's Whiter Shade of pale?

[aeolium]

Thus I find Boult's recordins of the Brandenburgs (massed strings, romantic bowing, but crisp, alert rhythms and 'unusual' instruments, like recorders and harpsichords) essential listening.

Yes, Pabmusic, and I like some of Boult's Handel accompaniments too.

I think most of my favourites have already been mentioned: Lipatti in the first partita, Edwin Fischer in the 48, Perahia in keyboard concertos, Grumiaux in the violin concertos (and the violin partitas). Of the arrangements by others, the ones that stand out for me are Schoenberg's version of the St Anne prelude and fugue and Webern's wonderful setting of the Ricercare a 6 from the Musical Offering.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Webern's wonderful setting of the Ricercare a 6 from the Musical Offering.

... and Stravinsky's recomposition of Von Himmel Hoch

[BBMmk2]

... and Stravinsky's recomposition of Von Himmel Hoch