Of those you've linked, the last by Moreno et al. seems pretty far removed from "[following] Bach's intentions."
Of Hopkinson Smith's later (2000) recording, John Duarte wrote in Gramophone, "Hopkinson Smith makes such a good case for Bach's Sonatas and Partitas on the lute that his recording is arguably the best you can buy of these works-on any instrument." "The centrepiece of the set, the Chaconne of the D minor Partita, is taken at an unusually quick pace (12'15"), though you would know this only if you read the insert-booklet beforehand. The flexibility we know as rubato cannot be measured, only felt, and the naturalness with which Smith applies it transforms the music into eloquent and, in each slow movement, noble speech." I might not be quite so bold as " his recording is arguably the best you can buy of these works-on any instrument," but I am at least fond enough to very highly recommend it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NA0wx0Ty44 Eugene -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of G. C. Sent: Monday, September 9, 2019 6:44 AM To: Lutelist <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] BWV 1004 Chaconne Dear list, I've looked in vain, in the archives, for the "best" version of Bach's chaconne. Remembering that there was a controversy in its day between guitarists Segovia and Williams on how to execute the piece, (interpreter-intermediary and all that), I was wondering if anyone on this list can recommend a version which follows Bach's intentions in a good way, also being idiomatic and not overly edited ("stripped", less is more kind of, without being just an edition of the violin version.) Tuning (Dm-vieil tone) is not an issue. BR G. [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMR_4KhbBc8 1:26 [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcy7E4uHYK8 [3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtjtuljFPa8 [4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdi1kf0mfi8 [5]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuY3KTm9HoE [6]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b3nwrWTNOA -- References 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMR_4KhbBc8 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcy7E4uHYK8 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtjtuljFPa8 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdi1kf0mfi8 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuY3KTm9HoE 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b3nwrWTNOA To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
