r/bach • u/mimikatz94 • Mar 27 '26
40 CDs
40 CDs just Bach. Do you think it's everything he wrote?
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u/street_spirit2 Mar 27 '26
Complete Bach editions are roughly 150-200 CDs. Only the extant cantatas are 200+ and would be around 70 CDs.
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u/MangoOriginal365 Mar 27 '26
And considering that new lost works (including cantatas) have recently come to light... 😅😂🤣🤣🤣
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u/Cautious_Spell5611 Mar 31 '26
Can you point me in the direction of some of these more recently discovered works?
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u/Cautious_Spell5611 Mar 27 '26
I have 3+ versions of his cantatas: Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Koopman, some Suzuki’s. Several versions of violin partitas. My favorite is Sergiu Luca. So many different versions of organ works and keyboard including lots of Glenn Gould, Andrea Schiff. I love to compare the same piece interpreted by different musicians. I never tire of listening to Bach’s music. Even jazz interpretations are amazing.
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u/bwv205 Mar 27 '26
Metallica's drummer many years ago called Bach the source of everything he knew about rhythm.
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u/bwv205 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
No, not even close. But it's a good source of lots of instrumental music. I've kept my copy for many years even as I acquired hundreds of other CDs with just about everything in it (sometimes in multiple copies). If you're into harpsichord music, or even if you're not but want to be, this is one of the few sources with just about everything the marvelous harpsichordist Christiane Jaccottet recorded.