On Thursday and Friday evening at Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the La Jolla Music Society presented violinist Midori in the six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Unaccompanied violin music relies for its effect on a player whose approach to the instrument treats athleticism and acute tonal shading as priorities. Like solo Bach, Ysaÿe’s Six Solo Violin Sonatas ...
Music for unaccompanied violin reminds me of the “challenging” category on the sushi menu. It’s not for everybody. There’s a certain stark nakedness about it. Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili ...