Bach, J S: Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003

"For speed, dead-on accuracy, heated intensity, and blemish-free tone control in all registers, Jascha Heifetz…. refuses to yield the throne after ruling for nearly half a century.” Classics Today

“Heifetz's Bach was always perhaps more about Jascha than Johann Sebastian. There's no denying the urgency and passion of his playing, but there's indulgence too, and over time the relentlessness is wearing.” BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008 ***

“This young violinist is not only a formidable technician but also a musician who knows what she wants to say with every note” Financial Times

“Mildori's Bach is wonderfully suave and well ordered. With Bartók it's a very different story. There's the same beautifully polished technique, but also a wholehearted embracing of the music's emotional world, with its vivid contrasts of mood, tone and movement. Robert McDonald is a like-minded partner...” Gramophone Magazine, April 2008

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"Grumiaux comes closer than any other violinist I have heard to an ideal performance ... There is a kind of honesty to Bach's intentions here ... that I find deeply impressive and often very exciting." Gramophone

‘Technically Perlman is beyond reproach. There is brilliance in the faster movements, delicacy in the galanteries, and grave expressiveness in the slower music. As the coupling of the names of Bach and Perlman is not one that readily springs to mind, this fine recording has come as a real surprise.’ (Gramophone)

“Classic accounts by Milstein and Grumiaux have been usurped by this extraordinarily gifted newcomer” BBC Music Magazine, Proms issue 2005