J.S. Bach: Violin Partitas Viktoria Mullova, violin (Philips) J.S. Bach: Violin Sonatas and Partitas Arthur Grumiaux, violin (Philips Duo). Viktoria Mullova’s readings of the Bach Partitas are ...

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 ...

The repertory on these discs overlaps somewhat, with Anne-Marie McDermott playing two of the Partitas, Andrew Rangell all six. Both pianists display admirable digital prowess and keen musicality, and ...

The violinist explores the extraordinary works, which he has just recorded for Naïve For this week's Gramophone Podcast Editor Martin Cullingford is joined by the acclaimed violinist and conductor ...

ASPEN – She stands quietly in the middle of the stage at the 2,050-seat Benedict Music Tent, looking mildly amused. A long ponytail drapes over the shoulder that does not have a violin tucked above it ...

It is extraordinary that of over a thousand pieces written by J S Bach only about a dozen were published in his lifetime. The pieces he chose as his opus 1 – although published in 1731 when he was in ...

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: Christmas at St George’s Windsor and ...

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, ...

Includes essays by Kenneth Slowik, James Weaver, Thomas G. MacCracken and Jaap Schröder. Booklet may accompany 6 sound cassettes also published by Smithsonian ...