I have become fascinated by Bach’s famous Partita No. 3 in E major BWV 1006 / Preludio, and its later re-working as the Sinfonia for ‘Wir danken dir’ BWV 29 in D major.
Do you have any favourite versions of either? Ones that I can hear online and download legitimately? As it happens, I don’t much like organ music, and I’d be very interested in any decent version of the Sinfonia arranged without an organ part.
I like Itzak Perlman’s recording of the Partita, as well as adaptations/transcriptions for guitar by Julian Bream, Angel Romero and others. And I have always liked Wendy Carlos’s synth rendering of the Sinfonia from the first ‘Switched on Bach’.
Which other versions are worth knowing about?