The trio sonatas that Bach wrote, probably for his son Wilhelm Friedemann to master his skills at the organ, are so perfect that you can understand why others have plundered them for different ...

(5) Trio Sonatas, Movements: C Ensemble Diderot Johannes Pramsohler, Violin (5) Trio Sonatas, Movements: B flat Ensemble Diderot Johannes Pramsohler, Violin (5) Trio Sonatas, Movements: A minor ...

Adaptation was the prime resource for a rather ad hoc ensemble that presented the last recital in Ballarat's annual serious music festival. Trio Sine Nomine comprises a mixed bag of instruments - oboe ...

Separate period instruments – and baroque bows – for the partitas and sonatas add drama to Zehetmair’s immense subtlety Thomas Zehetmair was only 21 when he recorded Bach’s solo violin sonatas and ...

TRIO SONATAS fell out of fashion long ago: composers haven’t written them for over 150 years. But lockdown is the ideal time to rediscover them, as we argue in a piece in this week’s issue of The ...

After years of silence following an injury it seemed Kyung Wha Chung had retired. Then came a return to live recitals (her Royal Festival Hall appearance sparked headlines when she berated a noisy ...

Even in a movement such as the presto finale of the G minor Sonata, which is normally played as a virtuoso blur of scorching semiquavers, Hélène Schmitt finds room to shape the music with tremendous ...

It’s brave of Julia Fischer to tackle the Mount Everest of music for solo violin at the age of 21. The young German is up against some stiff competition, but she acquits herself well. The great ...

The young Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova has been a name to watch for some time, through her Hyperion recordings of music by Hartmann, Roslavets and Szymanowski, and through her participation ...