BBC Radio 3

Goldberg Variations

Reviewer:Nicholas Kenyon
Broadcast: 18th February 2012

Recommendation:

• Andras Schiff (piano)
• ECM 4721852 (CD)

Harpsichord recommendation:

• Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
• DECCA 4757079 (Download)

St John Passion

Reviewer: Simon Heighes
Broadcast: 2nd April 2011

• Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (conductor).
  BISCD921-922 (2CD)

Organ Works

Reviewer: Stephen Farr
Broadcast: 30th October 2010

• Bernard Foccroulle (organ)
• Ricercar RIC289 (16 CDs)
• Marie-Claire Alain (organ) – digital recordings from 1990s
• Erato – currently deleted, due for reissue April 2011

Mass in B minor

Reviewer: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Broadcast: 29th May 2010

• Emma Kirkby (soprano) / Emily Van Evera (soprano) / Panito Iconomou (alto) / Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor) / David Thomas (bass) / Tolz Boys' Choir Soloists / Taverner Consort / Taverner Players / Andrew Parrott (conductor)
• EMI 561998-2 (2CD, budget)

• c/w BACH: St John Passion BWV245; Easter Oratorio BWV249; Ascension Oratorio 'Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen' BWV11
• Emma Kirkby (soprano) / Emily Van Evera (soprano) / Panito Iconomou (alto) / Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor) / David Thomas (bass) / Tolz Boys' Choir Soloists / Taverner Consort / Taverner Players / Andrew Parrott (conductor)
• Virgin Classics 5 62068-2 (5CD, budget)

Cantata BWV56 "Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen"

Reviewer: Richard Wigmore
Broadcast: 20th March 2010

• Bach – Cantatas Vol 10 (Potsdam / Wittenberg)
• c/w BACH: Cantata BWV48 'Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlosen'; Cantata BWV5 'Wo soll ich fliehen hin'; Cantata BWV90 'Es reisset euch ein schrecklich Ende'; Cantata BWV79 'Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild'; Cantata BWV192 'Nun danket alle Gott'; Cantata BWV80 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott'
• Joanne Lunn (soprano) / William Towers (alto) / James Gilchrist (tenor) / Peter Harvey (bass) / The Monteverdi Choir / The English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
• Soli Deo Gloria SDG110 (2CD, mid price)

Cantata BWV 80 "Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott"

Reviewer: Simon Heighes
Broadcast: 19th September 2009

• Bach Cantatas Volume 10
• BACH: Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlosen BWV 48; Wo soll ich fliehen hin BWV 5; Es reisset euch ein schrecklich Ende BWV 90; Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen BWV 56; Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild BWV 79; Nun danket alle Gott BWV 192; Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80
• Joanne Lunn (soprano), William Towers (alto), James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
• Soli Deo Gloria SDG110 (2CD, mid price)

Two Part Inventions BWV 772-786 and Three Part Inventions BWV 787-801

Reviewers: Harriet Smith, Francis Knights
Broadcast: 28th February 2009

• (c/w Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor BWV 903)
• Angela Hewitt (piano)
• Hyperion CDA66746 (CD)

• Blandine Verlet (harpsichord)
• Naïve E8603 (CD)

• (c/w 12 Little Preludes (various); 6 Little Preludes BWV 933-938)
• Richard Troeger (clavichord)
• Lyrichord LEMS8047 (CD and download)
• [NB. There is currently no UK distributor for this item, which is available as a download]