Lara St. John, violin (Well-Tempered Productions). Look past the alluring but inapt cover photo of waif-like Canadian violinist Lara St. John wearing naught but her fiddle and turn the volume down on ...

Miriam Fried, one of the world’s pre-eminent violinists, returns to Curtis to shepherd the students through Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin. The sonatas and partitas for ...

It’s brave of Julia Fischer to tackle the Mount Everest of music for solo violin at the age of 21. The young German is up against some stiff competition, but she acquits herself well. The great ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The pair of concerts—each presenting different selections of Bach's Partitas and ...

This is FRESH AIR. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin are as big a test for a violinist as his cello suites are for a solo cellist. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says there are many ...

J.S. Bach: Violin Partitas Viktoria Mullova, violin (Philips) J.S. Bach: Violin Sonatas and Partitas Arthur Grumiaux, violin (Philips Duo). Viktoria Mullova’s readings of the Bach Partitas are ...

Soovin Kim remembers studying Johann Sebastian Bach’s B Minor Partita, BWV 1002, for solo violin when he was 10 or 11 years — and his reaction predicted a lifetime surrounded by the music of Bach. “It ...

On this disc, Isabelle Faust actually plays only three of the six towering, exploratory masterpieces for solo violin that Bach composed in or before 1720. What we have here is the second half of the ...

Bach’s handwriting, says Isabelle Faust about the autograph of Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin, “radiates grandeur and resolution alongside pulsating vitality. What harmony and equilibrium ...