Bach, J S: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin, BWV1001-1006

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Feng’s technique certainly needs no hiding places, and the sound recording is agreeably warm, clear and intimate, but it’s something of a mixed bag. With restrained vibrato he nonetheless plants... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 19th Jan 2018
Catalogue No: CCS39018
Label: Channel
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

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Bach, J S: Sonata for solo violin No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001

Work length17:33

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II. Fuga

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IV. Presto

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Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 1 in B minor, BWV1002

Work length31:11

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II. Double

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III. Corrente

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IV. Double Presto

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VI. Double

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VII. Tempo di Borea

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VIII. Double

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

Work length25:37

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II. Fuga

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III. Andante

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IV. Allegro

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Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004

Work length30:48

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II. Corrente

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III. Sarabanda

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IV. Giga

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V. Ciaccona

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Bach, J S: Sonata for solo violin No. 3 in C major, BWV1005

Work length23:20

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II. Fuga

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III. Largo

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IV. Allegro Assai

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Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV1006

Work length18:42

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II. Loure

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III. Gavotte en Rondeau

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IV. Menuet I

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V. Menuet II

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VI. Bourée

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VII. Gigue

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It is highly debatable whether Grillparzer (a contemporary of Beethoven and Schubert) knew Bach’s six works for violin solo. Nevertheless he manages in this poem, without actually intending to do so, to go right to their core. 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’

Reviews

June 2018

Feng’s technique certainly needs no hiding places, and the sound recording is agreeably warm, clear and intimate, but it’s something of a mixed bag. With restrained vibrato he nonetheless plants his flag in the Romantic camp…cultivating a rhythmic freedom that can yield momentary confusion, and resolutely resisting the invitation to embellish or vary repeats.

March 2018

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.

Bach, J S: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin, BWV1001-1006

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