My favorite other-person's response to Bach is in Spanish. Thanks to the late flamenco aficionado Donn Pohren, there is a quote in translation in English. Pohren is speaking of DUENDE.

"Let's see what García Lorca says about it in his 'Teoria y Juego de Duende' (Obras Completas/Complete Works). He says quite a lot, but one of his paragraphs should clear up the issue.
" ' All over Andalucía, from the rock of Jaén to the whorled shell of Cádiz, people talk constantly of the duende and they recognize it when it emerges....the old Gypsy dancer La Malena exclaimed one day while listening to [a recording of] Brailowsky play a fragment of Bach: "Olé! Eso tiene duende!" (Olé, that has duende!) and she was bored with Gluck, Brahms, and Darius Milhaud. "
published in the original Spanish in 1930 [Garcia Lorca]
translated by Donn Pohren in The Art of Flamenco, first edition 1962, reprinted many times since