Mood music

Here is Pablo Casals playing the last two movements of Bach's first Gamba Sonata.

I first heard this recording in 1997, although I don't know much about the pianist.  Casals had recently come onto my radar via a documentary about his life.

These two movements catch a good amount of the Casals approach to Bach, and I still refer back to this recording when working on the G major trio sonata (same as the second movement in this video, but rescored for the organ).  Casals gives this such a deeply musical reading, taste and fashion in early music performance techniques just melts into insignificance.