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Johann Sebastian Bach  (1685-1750)

For me, Bach is absolutely the tops! Not only was he a genius playing so many instruments such as clavichord, harpsichord and organ he was a most amazing man as a human being having had two wives and twenty children, many of whom were themselves notable musicians. In his time, according to an obituary notice, reported by The Oxford Companion to Music by Dr Scholes, he was the greatest organ and clavier player that had ever lived. He established order in the musical world regarding the piano and enabled we much lesser mortals access to a predictable system (think about his "well-tempered clavier").
I am always impressed how readily his music is adapted by such diverse media as the "traditional" chamber music in any ensemble of instruments whatsoever, choral works, my humble concertina, the synthesiser à Walter Carlos (later Wendy Carlos) and even recorder music.
For the biographical record he was born in Germany (actually Thuringia, if we want to be precise) in 1685 and died in Leipzig at the age of 65.
Bach has two items from BWV 1 and BWV 245 in Weihnachtliche Musik Alter Meister Für Blockflötenquartett as well as Gavotte, Polonaise, Menuett in Flötenbüchlein für kleine Leute (D/D/A) and Flötenbüchlein für kleine Leute (D/D).

Sheet Music:

1. [§] Cantata Nr. 142: "Uns Ist Ein Kind Geboren", D-Recorder
2. [§] Come Sweet Death, Descant/Treble/Tenor/Bass
3. [§] Contrapuncti I, III, IV & IX and Fugues II & V, Descant/Treble/Tenor/Bass
4. [§] Pastorale, Tenor/Tenor/Tenor
5. [§] Siciliano From Second Flute Sonata, Descant/Treble/Tenor/Bass
6. [§] Twenty Passages From Flute Parts in the Church Cantatas, Treble

Recorder Music CDs:
 Piers Adams on "The English Nightingale" 
 Antwerp Recorder Consort on "Dowland, Ortiz, Serocki, et al / Antwerp Recorder Consort" 
 Stefano Bagliano on "Bach: Sonaten für Blockflöte" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
 Pieter-Jan Belder on "Art of the Recorder" 
 Irmhild Beutler on "Galante Kurzweyl" 
 Irmhild Beutler on "L'Apothéose de Corelli -Triosonaten des Barock" 
 Frans Brüggen on "Frans Brüggen Edition Vol. 11 (Bach: Kammermusik und Orch.)" 
 Frans Brüggen on "The Art of Recorder" 
 Frans Brüggen on "Le Charme de la Flûte à bec" 
 René Clemencic on "Telemann, Bach, Handel and others" 
 Michael Copley on "Handel with Care" 
 Michael Copley on "Micro Classics" 
 David Munrow Ensemble on "The Art of the Recorder" 
 Flanders Recorder Quartet on "Abundance" 
 Flanders Recorder Quartet on "Armonia di flauti" 
 Flanders Recorder Quartet on "Bach: Flanders Recorder Quartet" 
 Flanders Recorder Quartet on "Banchetto Musicale" 
 Flanders Recorder Quartet on "The Nations" 
 Walter van Hauwe on "Block Flutes, Vol.1" 
 Helen Hooker on "Helen and Friends" 
 Dan Laurin on "Recorder Graffiti" 
 Dan Laurin on "Recorder Graffiti" 
 Dan Laurin on "Recorder Graffiti" 
 Hans-Martin Linde on "Meister der Flöte und Gitarre" 
 Hans-Martin Linde on "Musik für Blockflöte und Laute" 
 Hans-Martin Linde on "Music for Recorder from Renaissance & Baroque" 
 Judith Linsenberg on "Bach-Trio Sonatas" 
 Loeki Stardust Quartet Amsterdam on "Capriccio di flauti" 
 Loeki Stardust Quartet Amsterdam on "Die Kunst der Fuge - J.S.Bach" 
 Loeki Stardust Quartet Amsterdam on "Dutch Masters Volume 40" 
 Loeki Stardust Quartet Amsterdam on "Extra Time" 
 Loeki Stardust Quartet Amsterdam on "Fuge around the clock" 
 Christian Mendoze on "Bach-Brandenburg Concertos" 
 Christian Mendoze on "Sonates pour flute a bec & basse continue" 
 Dorothee Oberlinger on "Bach: a due per Flauto e Cambalo" 
 Clas Pehrsson on "Works for Baroque Flute and Recorders" 
 Clas Pehrsson on "Bach, Telemann, Babell: Flute & Recorder Concertos" 
 Michala Petri on "Artists of the Century - Michala Petri - Ultimate Collection" 
 Michala Petri on "Bach for Breakfast" 
 Michala Petri on "Bach Sonatas" 
 Michala Petri on "Bach Sonatas" 
 Michala Petri on "Bach/Telemann-Works for Recorder & Strings" 
 Michala Petri on "Bach: Sonatas / Keith Jarrett, Michala Petri" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
 Michala Petri on "Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos nos 1, 2 & 3 / Marriner" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
 Michala Petri on "Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos nos 4, 5 & 6 / Marriner" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
 Michala Petri on "Die virtuose Blockflöte" 
 Michala Petri on "Greensleeves" 
 Michala Petri on "Inspired Bach: Music to Enhance Your Spirit" 
 Michala Petri on "Recorder Favourites" 
 Michala Petri on "Recorder Sonatas" 
 Michala Petri on "Souvenir" 
 Michala Petri on "Works for Recorder, Guitar and Lute" 
 Valery Proshutinsky on "Deutsche Barockmusik aus russischer Sicht" 
 Quartettino on "Recorder Memories: Quartettino" 
 Helmut Schaarschmidt on "Delicacies for Sopranino Recorder & Oboe with Organ" 
 Nadja Schubert on "Bach Edition 6: Brandenburg Concertos I (1, 2, 3 & 6)" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
 Nadja Schubert on "Bach Edition 7: Brandenburg Concertos II (4 & 5)" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
 Nadja Schubert on "Bach: Multiple Concerti" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
 Nadja Schubert on "The Life and Works of Johann Sebastian Bach" 
 Nadja Schubert on "Trios" 
 The Schwanewede Recorder Consort on "Recorder Memories: Schwanewede Recorder Consort" 
 Gerald Stemfel on "Intuition - Ratio: Music from 1300-1750 for Recorder &Cimbal" 
 Richard Taylor on "Bach: The Concertos for One and Two Harpsichords" 
 Pamela Thorby on "Bach Trio Ensemble" 
 Unknown on "Oeuvres Pour Flute A Bec" 
 Marion Verbruggen on "The Art of the Recorder" 
 Marion Verbruggen on "Bach-Three Suites (arr for Recorder)" 
 Marion Verbruggen on "Bach-Trio Sonatas" CD(s) & MP3 Album(s)
 Marion Verbruggen on "Bach-Cello Suites transcriptions for Recorder, Vol. 2" 
 Marion Verbruggen on "18th Century Recorder Sonatas" 
 American Recorder Orchestra of the West on "The Teutonic Spirit"