Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin, BWV1001-1006
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin, BWV1001-1006
Ning Feng (violin)
[ Channel Classics / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 19 January 2018
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It seems as if Bach demands the extremes from the violin, even more than it is capable of. Was there any violinist during Bach's lifetime capable of playing them? Maybe Pisendel, the leading German violinist of his time? Or had he intended his solo works for none other than himself? We still aren't sure, but what is for sure is that Ning Feng would have impressed Bach with his reading of the complicated chords and figurations.
Established at the highest level in China, Feng performs regularly with major international and local orchestras, in recital and with the Dragon Quartet which he founded in 2012. Now based in Berlin and enjoying a global career, Ning Feng has developed a reputation internationally as an artist of great lyricism and emotional transparency, displaying tremendous bravura and awe-inspiring technical accomplishment.
Played on a 1721 Stradivari violin, known as the 'MacMillan'
"Yes, there are other ways to play this music - more extrovert, or austere, or heated, or overtly virtuoso - but if you want to take Bach's solo violin music to your heart, intimately and as food for musical thought, then Feng's recordings strike me as well-nigh ideal." Gramophone
