Playlist 2026-03-29

This Week’s Links

Bach Birthday Bash Part 2
All music on today’s program is by Johann Sebastian Bach

Pop Songs Based on Bach

Bach & A Whiter Shade of Pale

Brandon Patrick George – flute (Suzanne’s interview)

Masaaki Suzuki – organ, harpsichord, conductor (Suzanne’s interview)

Mahan Esfahani – harpsichord (Suzanne’s interview)

Emmanuel Pahud – flute (Suzanne’s interview)

Anna Magdalena Notebook

Johann Sebastian Bach – biography

Bach Family Tree

Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes

First Hour

Well Tempered Clavier Bk.1: Prelude & Fugue #1 in C, Glenn Gould – piano, Sony, 89344, THE GOULD VARIATIONS: THE BEST OF GLENN GOULD’S BACH

Suite in e: bourree & gigue BWV996, Lutz Kirchhof – theorbo/lute, Sony, 48256, MASTERWORKS DINNER CLASSICS:

Anna Magdalena Notebook: minuets 1 & 2, Polonaise, & Minuet, Michael Parloff – flute, Gerald Ranck – harpsichord, ESS.A.Y, 1027, THE FLUTE ALBUM

Overture (Suite) #3 in D BWV1068, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki, BIS, 1431, JS BACH 4 ORCHESTRAL SUITES BWV1066-1069

Cantata 147: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner, EMI, 72064, SUNDAY PAPER

Partita in a minor BWV1013: Allemande, Brandon Patrick George – flute, Profil Hanssler, PH18039, FLUTE SONATAS & SOLO WORKS

Second Hour

Dein Blut, der edle Saft BWV136 & Cantata #140: Sleepers Awake, Amsterdam Baroque, Ton Koopman, Yo Yo Ma – cello, Sony, 60681, SIMPLY BAROQUE 2

Trio Sonata in d for oboe, violin and b.c. BWV527, Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin, Isabelle Faust – violin, Harmonia Mundi, HMM902335/56, JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH VIOLIN CONCERTOS

Italian Concerto in F BWV971 (Orchestrated), The Harp Consort, Andrew Lawrence King, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 77366, ITALIAN CONCERTO

Goldberg Variations: aria & Var.1-3, Simone Dinnerstein – piano, Telarc, 80692, J.S. BACH GOLDBERG VARIATIONS

Motet BWV229:Komm, Jesu, komm, Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, Ivars Taurins, CBC, 1136, JS BACH MOTETS

Third Hour

Sinfonia from Cantata BWV52, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Decca, 4782718, BACH SINFONIA

Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in Eb for lute BWV998, Zoltan Katona – guitar, Peter Katona – guitar, Channel Classics, 34713, KATONA TWINS JS BACH

Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus 4-7, Academy of Ancient Music, Mahan Esfahani, BBC Music, BBCMM403, ART OF THE FUGUE

Concerto in E BWV1053 (arr. for recorder), Orchestra of the 18th Century, Lucie Horsch – recorder, Decca, 4870642, THE BRUGGEN PROJECT

Fourth Hour

Wer nur den lieben Gott…BWV647, Ton Koopman – organ,, Deutsche Grammophon, 413638, J.S.BACH: WORKS FOR ORGAN / WORKS FOR HARPSICHORD

St Matthew Passion BWV244 (1727 version): Part 1. Chorus. Kommt, ihr T chter, helft mir klagen! (Come daughters …), Part 2. Aria. Mache dich, mein Herze rein (Make yourself pure …), Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr, Christopher Maltman – bass, AAM Records, AAM004, JS Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244 (1727 Version)

Concerto in G after Vivaldi BWV973, Alexandre Tharaud – piano (Steinway), Harmonia Mundi, 901871, CONCERTOS ITALIENS JS BACH

Concerto for 4 Harpsichords BWV1065, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood – dir. & harpsichord, Christopher Hogwood, Davitt Moroney, Colin Tilney, Christophe Rousset – harpsichords, L’Oiseau Lyre, 433053, TRIPLE & QUADRUPLE CONCERTOS

Musical Offering – Trio Sonata BWV1079, Emmanuel Pahud – flute, Matthew Truscott – violin, Jonathan Manson – cello, Trevor Pinnock – harpsichord, EMI Classics, 84220, THE FLUTE KING

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