I just got this in the mail, and am enjoying it. It's wonderful. To me, Bach transcriptions sound like one of four things: (A) Bach, with the arranger's own flavor clearly stamped on it, but still recognizable enough, and enjoyable. (B) Bach, with the original character of the work so evident that it hardly sounds like a transcription at all. (C) Something that hardly sounds like Bach, but is still interesting. (D) Something that may or may not be Bach-like, but where i don't really care because I just don't like it. This set is very much A. In contrast, and surprisingly, the Simpson/Delme Art of Fugue falls into category (C). I guess that says more about me than about the recordings in question, or I'm more sensitive to pitch than I realized. (Simpson transposed up to G minor. Perhaps he did more to warrant getting his name on the recording!) In case anyone was wondering what I would consider (B), I was wondering myself. I guess (for me) the modern-instrument Orchestral Suites would fall into category B, or the WTC on piano by Gould. (Some would not consider a piano performance of a clavier work a transcription at all but merely a performance, while others would refuse to even consider it!) The Stokowski arrangement of BWV 565 would be category D. Arch