Essential Bach

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On the plus side, most if not all of the music is instantly recognizable, by melody if not by name. Everything from the Brandenburg Concertos to "Air on a G?String" to the B?Minor Mass and St.?Matthew Passion is represented. Performances range from 1960 to 1993, encompassing both early instrument and modern orchestra interpretations by a wide variety of forces, including Sir Neville Marriner with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Raymond Leppard leading the English Chamber Orchestra. Given such diversity the result is unavoidably a patchwork, albeit one made from the finest materials, and as such is perhaps best treated as a sampler to aid exploration of the vast legacy of one of the very greatest composers who ever lived. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk

General CDs

• Styles > Classical
• Chamber Music > General
• Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Bach, Johann Sebastian
• Forms & Genres > Concertos > Concertinos
• Concerto Grossi
• General
• Preludes
• Suites
• Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > Forms & Genres > Variations
• General
• Early Music
• Instruments > Keyboard > Organ
• Strings > Cello
• Lute
• Violin
• Sacred & Religious > General
• Symphonies > General
• Opera & Vocal > General
• Arias
• Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830)
• Oratorios
• Vocal Non-Opera > Cantatas
• Masses
• Passions
• Bach, Johann Sebastian - Works by J.S. Bach