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 ...
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 ...
What is so engaging is her ‘ensemble approach’ to the music: Busch illustrates Bach’s textures with her bow by subtly differentiating articulations of melody, accompaniment and inner voices. The ...