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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Such was Sergei Rachmaninoff's admiration for Bach's Violin Partita in E Major, BWV 1006, that he arranged three of its seven movements — Prelude, Gavotte and Gigue — for solo piano. Bachmaninoff, if ...

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 Thursday and Friday evening at Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the La Jolla Music Society presented violinist Midori in the six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.