This is FRESH AIR. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin are as big a test for a violinist as his cello suites are for a solo cellist. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says there are many ...
Such was Sergei Rachmaninoff's admiration for Bach's Violin Partita in E Major, BWV 1006, that he arranged three of its seven movements — Prelude, Gavotte and Gigue — for solo piano. Bachmaninoff, if ...
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 ...
On this disc, Isabelle Faust actually plays only three of the six towering, exploratory masterpieces for solo violin that Bach composed in or before 1720. What we have here is the second half of the ...