Bach Violin Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin - Perfect for Classical Music Lovers & Violin Practice

The performances on these CDs show a devotion to the notion that the music as heard by the composer (during his lifetime) might just be closer to what he had in mind during the process of composition. Ms Wallfisch has great credentials as a sensitive performer on the Baroque violin. Anyone reading "Strad", for example, will find references to her in this specialization. The performances speak for themselves; the samples available at this site are sufficent to draw one into the complexities of single line music implying chords and rhythms not written in the text, but triggered in the mind of the listener (yes, I know there are double stops, but I prefer to think of these as road signs for change in the emotional flux within the line as well as chordal interplay).I would refer the reader to Anthony Tommasini's review of Christian Tetzlaff's recent performance of this same literature in April 28's NYT for a marvelous discription of what to look for in these Sonatas and Partitas.Past performances, both attempting innovative Baroque bowing techniques (Albert Schweitzer wrote the liner notes for that one) and sweetly saccharine Romantic tone (ala Tchaikovsky), have missed the musical point. The intense personal power of Bach requires differences in both attack and tone to bring out the dialoque potential along with a rhythmic pulse only found in the most passionate of performers...as close a music to Zen as is possible in Western Civilization. These performances are just such a reading of Bach's inspired compositions.