Miriam Fried, one of the world’s pre-eminent violinists, returns to Curtis to shepherd the students through Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin. The sonatas and partitas for ...
In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...
According to Kristian Bezuidenhout, “The Sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014-1019 are some of the composer’s most elusive and puzzling works… this is music that poses tantalising ...
Bach Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001, Mvt: Adagio, Fuga (Allegro) Paganini from 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1, No. 21 in A minor Mozart Violin Sonata in A ...
The deliberation of the piano playing at the opening of the Sonata in B minor, BWV1014, and the way both piano and violin negotiate a little extra space between phrases, like time taken to ensure a ...
Often she takes us persuasively towards her vision of the music’s significance and character, as in the spectacularly energetic Preludio to the Third Partita, and the sweetly expressive Largo in the ...