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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

As anyone who is aware of the astonishing instrumentalist Chris Thile from his work with Nickel Creek as a precocious teenager, and since with Punch Brothers and elsewhere, will have guessed, this is ...

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 ...

Through his work with the innovative string quartet Brooklyn Rider and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, violinist Johnny Gandelsman has established himself as a performer of wide-ranging interests 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.

Deep influences Bach completed his six Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001-1006, by 1720, and they were first published in 1802. It is unlikely Bach ever heard them performed. The three sonatas each ...