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 ...

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 ...

Program notes by Jaap Schröder (15 p. : ill.) inserted in container. Jaap Schröder, violin (Jacob Stainer, 1665). "Recorded in 1984 and 1985 in the village church of Oltingen in the Canton of Basel, ...

Sonata a violino solo senza basso: I. Sonata a violino solo senza basso: II. Allegro Sonata a violino solo senza basso: III. Giga Sonata a violino solo senza basso: IV. Variatione ...

The last 20 years brought only one great recording of these works–by Patrick Bismuth on STIL–and that was on baroque violin. Now Gidon Kremer’s second recording of the Sonatas (and third of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

At first blush, Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin played on the humble mandolin might be akin to making a Rusty Nail with single-malt scotch. A successful performance will require, at the ...

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 ...

Grammy-winning mandolin player Chris Thile is out with a new album. This time he is taking the music of J.S. Bach to different locations. It's easy to think of classical music as being confined to a ...