Vladimir Ashkenazy's new recording of the Bach Partitas - a follow-up to his 2006 account of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" - boasts many of the familiar virtues of the pianist's youth. The playing is ...

Happy Bach’s 331st birthday! To celebrate, we had a partita party with violinist Rachel Barton Pine. (What’s a “partita,” you ask? Listen and learn, my friends.) Rachel explains Bach’s sonatas and ...

Gandelsman has been celebrated for playing a wide variety of music, from purely classical to the most inventive contemporary pieces. He takes on Bach's complex sonatas and partitas on his new album.

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 ...

The young Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova has been a name to watch for some time, through her Hyperion recordings of music by Hartmann, Roslavets and Szymanowski, and through her participation ...

The violinist explores the extraordinary works, which he has just recorded for Naïve For this week's Gramophone Podcast Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by the acclaimed violinist and conductor ...

Mahan Esfahani, whose new album, “Bach: The Six Partitas,” was just released on Hyperion, wants to restore the harpsichord to the classical mainstream, where its position was usurped two centuries ago ...