Did you try the easier pieces, like the Brandeburg concertos? Also, it may help for some more cerebral things such as the violin partitas to listen first the "a

Did you try the easier pieces, like the Brandeburg concertos? Also, it may help for some more cerebral things such as the violin partitas to listen first the "adaptations" such as Busoni's chaconne (which makes it easier to the untrained ear by providing all the notes that are implicit in the original version).