According to Kristian Bezuidenhout, “The Sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014-1019 are some of the composer’s most elusive and puzzling works… this is music that poses tantalising ...

FINNISH guitar virtuoso Timo Korhonen has adapted Bach’s three Sonatas for Solo Violin: Sonata No 1 in G minor, No 2 in A minor and No 3 in C major for his own instrument.

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 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 ...

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Borne on the breath of the bow, Bach's works for solo violin offer perhaps the most intimate connection to the composer. As Beznosiuk puts it, "the notion of interpretation seems irrelevant". Yet 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 ...

Stradivarius violins are lately on the minds of many Americans, thanks to the media’s coverage of the theft and subsequent recovery of a Strad owned by the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony. One ...

The deliberation of the piano playing at the opening of the Sonata in B minor, BWV1014, and the way both piano and violin negotiate a little extra space between phrases, like time taken to ensure a ...

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 ...