Okay here's a composition to separate the men from the boys...the hardcores from the lightweights...well you get the picture.
I am talking about a CD I bought years ago because I was curious about what a "Fugue" and contrapuntal were all about. In this case the most glorious example I can think of is "The Art of Fugue" performed by Louis Bagger on the harpsichord. This is the kind of music the aristocrats would have heard in the background of their drawing rooms, although I doubt that many of them had J.S. Bach himself playing his magnificent piece.
I usually post a song, but in this case I don't want to scare anybody out of the thread permanently, I enjoy a solo harpsichord myself, but that doesn't mean I play it all the time either.
(Check the name of the label this CD was released on, it made me smile when I read it after I scanned it tonight.)