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 ...

At first blush, Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin played on the humble mandolin might be akin to making a Rusty Nail with single-malt scotch. A successful performance will require, at the ...

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.

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 ...

First, the rivals listed above. Felix Ayo, one-time leader of I Musici, has recorded Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Philips on only two discs. To make this possible, he cuts most of the repeats, and ...

The violinist discusses his recording of the suites, out today on Sony Classical Leonidas Kavakos's recording of the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin is newly released on Sony ...

Viktoria Mullova's gradual evolution as a Baroque violinist has now reached a crucial stage. In days gone by, as on her early Nineties recording for Philips (475 7451), she played Bach on her famous ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Faust, one of the most unshowy of modern violinists, completes her survey of Bach’s six unaccompanied masterpieces ...

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 ...