JS Bach - Sei Solo (Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin) | Sony 19439903132

JS Bach - Sei Solo (Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin)

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Label: Sony

Cat No: 19439903132

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 4th February 2022

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An exclusive Sony Classical artist since 2018, Leonidas Kavakos now stands ready to release his most significant recording yet: Bach - Sei Solo, his first account of Bach’s Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin.

The release also includes the famous Chaconne in D minor from the Partita no.2, for many, Bach’s single greatest span of music. Like many of his coevals, Bach was capable of creating great structures in sound, making use of the full panoply of choir, orchestra and soloists. He was unique, however, in his ability to conjure similar architectural marvels out of a single instrument. Bach titled his set Sei Solo – both a description of the work itself (‘six solos’) and a reminder of the challenge to the player: ‘you are alone’.

Leonidas Kavakos tackles that challenge and ‘keeps a firm grip on the rhythm, but one never gets the feeling that he is merely metronomic. Indeed, in the Double of the Courante, he wrestles the flood of notes into long, well-formed phrases, establishing a structure of impressive breadth and integrity (…) every line seems sharply etched, and Kavakos takes unusual care to balance the voices’Gramophone Magazine.

Kavakos’s account of Bach’s scores, which have been interpreted by every major violinist throughout history, will be a major moment in his career. The recording was made in December 2020 in Berlin, with Kavakos playing his 1734 ‘Willemotte’ Stradivarius.

Ever-restless, ever-questioning & consistently captivating, Leonidas Kavakos ‘the violinist’s violinist’ (The Strad) is recognised as one of the greatest musicians alive. Kavakos is a laureate of the great violin competitions and a visitor to the great orchestras of the world – as both violinist and conductor. In 2017 he joined the likes of Shostakovich, Rostropovich and Rubinstein as a laureate of the Sonning Music Prize.

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