At the website for the Oregon Bach Festival, Tim Smith has created a quite beautiful analysis and performance of the Well-Tempered Clavier. I found this weeks ago by accident and finally re-found it; to my layperson's mind the B minor fugue is one of the best examples I've seen of Bach's religious symbolism. Highly recommended!
There is also an older article at his Northern Arizona University website on the 25th variation of the Goldberg Variations, "That Crown of Thorns" - another good example of Bach and extramusical references.
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