Christoph Poppen, violin; Hilliard Ensemble (ECM New Series). Welcome inside the head of J.S. Bach. The composer often embedded familiar Lutheran chorales in his music so as to create devout ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin. Miriam Fried one of the world’s pre-eminent violinists returns to Curtis to shepherd the students through Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas ...

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.

Music for unaccompanied violin reminds me of the “challenging” category on the sushi menu. It’s not for everybody. There’s a certain stark nakedness about it. Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili ...

Agreat musician, one could argue, is part scholar, part showman, and part mystic. Talk to Christian Tetzlaff for half an hour, and you’ll hear hints of each of those qualities. The acclaimed German ...

Hilary Hahn gives an exclusive performance of unaccompanied Bach from her new album, 'Hilary Hahn plays Bach'. Here, Hilary plays the Double (Presto) from Bach's Partita for Violin Solo No. 1 in B ...

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 ...

Separate period instruments – and baroque bows – for the partitas and sonatas add drama to Zehetmair’s immense subtlety Thomas Zehetmair was only 21 when he recorded Bach’s solo violin sonatas and ...

Were I to append a subtitle to this memorable album it would be ‘the art of the bow’, the reason being that although DG’s recording comprehensively reports the tonal beauty of the 1733 Guarneri violin ...