This 2016 box set containing Bach's complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin combines two earlier releases by violinist Isabelle Faust, each containing three of the six sonatas. Both have been rapturously reviewed, and if you missed the initial releases you now have the chance to obtain the pair for the price of one. Faust's performances of these physically and mentally taxing works are among the best ones available. She is capable of steely resoluteness in the thorny contrapuntal movements (sample the fugue from the ...
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This 2016 box set containing Bach's complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin combines two earlier releases by violinist Isabelle Faust, each containing three of the six sonatas. Both have been rapturously reviewed, and if you missed the initial releases you now have the chance to obtain the pair for the price of one. Faust's performances of these physically and mentally taxing works are among the best ones available. She is capable of steely resoluteness in the thorny contrapuntal movements (sample the fugue from the Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003, CD one, track 14), but can wrench considerable tempo variation out of the slow movements. Faust excels in the brutal technical challenges of the big chaconne in the Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (CD two, track five), keeping vibrato to a minimum and developing an extreme level of tension over the course of the giant movement. But the most spectacular part of her performance is a certain unity that develops between the player and her...
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