Two years after her disc of the D minor and E major Partitas and the C major Sonata, Isabelle Faust completes her set of Bach's works for solo violin with G minor and A minor Sonatas and the B minor ...
Eleonor Bindman’s Bach pianism is all about clarity and order. Her strong and assertive fingerwork complements her firmly centred rhythm. Although Bindman cites the late harpsichordist Igor Kipnis’s ...
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.
In the 16th century, the word ‘Partita’ described a single movement in a larger set. By Bach’s time it was a collective name for a suite made up of varying French dance movements such as the Courante ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. This recording of Bach's six sonatas and partitas for solo violin has lightness, nuance, colour and plenty of Tognetti's personality.
Sometimes the pulse is perfect, with a strong sense of the dance that should be in every movement (the Preludio of the E major Partita). Or the tempo is exactly right (the Fuga of the Sonata in G ...