All just my personal opinion
Bach: Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971 — Walter Gieseking (1940), Wanda Landowska (1933), Gustav Leonhardt (1965), Andreas Staier (1993), Ton Koopman (1986), Christophe Rousset (1990);
Bach: Partita in B minor, BWV 831, “French Overture” — Walter Gieseking (1950), Glenn Gould (1970), Christophe Rousset (1990), Andreas Staier (1993)
Silvius Leopold Weiss: Music for Lute — Yasunori Imamura (3 CDs); Jacques Duphly: Pièces de Clavecin — Christophe Rousset
(…) there isn’t such a thing as “objective” judgement / rating in classical music, for many reasons: How people listen to music, how music “works on them”, what specifically they like about music, which kind of music they like, which / what type of musical expression “goes straight to their heart”, causes them to get goose bumps…
Bach: Cantata BWV 140, “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” — Comparing 5 recordings: Leppard/English Chamber Orchestra, London Voices (1981), Harnoncourt/Concentus musicus (1984, partial), Gardiner/Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists (1992), Koopman/Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir (2006), Lutz/J.S.Bach-Stiftung St.Gallen (2008, DVD)
Totally addicted!! In most of baroque Europe, the number of chamber music works for deep string instruments is rather small. Also, viols were very popular in France and in England (to some degree), but rarely used in Italy in baroque times, but at the French Court there was an entire school of famous viola da gamba players…
(…) without consistent, standardized labeling, a music library with over 10000 tracks would be a real mess, finding a specific track might be hard and time consuming, sorting & grouping would definitely fail. In the end, I found that in practice I can leave nothing as is! Luckily this does not imply that I need to retype everything…