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Jun 15
Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Karl Richter · 1958 Spin it Again - Karl Richter's 1958 recording of the St. Matthew Passion remains the blueprint for how to balance grandeur and transparency in Baroque choral music.
decade:1950s
Jun 14
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Glenn Gould · 1981 Spin it Again - He hummed through the entire thing, and the microphones caught every breath.
genre:Classical
Jun 14
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Violin
Nathan Milstein · 1975 Spin it Again - A 71-year-old violin genius, alone in a church, playing Bach with a bow arm that sounds like it was forged in another century.
decade:1970s
Jun 14
Cello Suites (Yo-Yo Ma)
Johann Sebastian Bach · 1983 Spin it Again - A 24-year-old cellist with a 250-year-old instrument and a score that had been nearly lost. What happened next changed classical music for a generation.
decade:1980s
Jun 8
Telemann: 12 Fantasias for Solo Violin
Alina Ibragimova · 2019 Spin it Again - She plays these twelve miniatures like they were written for her violin alone.
genre:Baroque
Jun 8
Bach: The Violin Sonatas
Isabelle Faust · 2010 Spin it Again - Finally, a recording of Bach's violin sonatas that sounds like the period, not the period drama.
decade:2010s
Jun 8
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin
Rachel Podger · 1999 Spin it Again - Jared Sacks put a pair of Schoeps in a London church and captured Podger's violin the way it sounds in your chest, not in your ears.
decade:1990s
Jun 8
Bach: Violin Partitas
Alina Ibragimova · 2018 Spin it Again - She plays the Ciaccona like she's discovering it for the first time, at two in the morning, alone in a church.
decade:2010s
Apr 4
Keyboard Works and Concertos
Johann Christian Bach · 1770 Spin it Again - Johann Christian Bach, the forgotten London Bach, writing keyboard concertos in 1770 that Mozart basically studied like homework and then never once credited.
decade:1770s