Nathan Milstein - J.S.Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (1998)

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Title: J.S.Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Year Of Release: 1998
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log)
Total Time: 02:05:43
Total Size: 706 MB
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Tracklist:

CD1
Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
01. I. Adagio (3:56)
02. II. Fuga. Allegro (5:01)
03. III. Siciliana (3:11)
04. IV. Presto (2:43)
Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002
05. I. Allemanda (4:06)
06. II. Double (2:13)
07. III. Corrente (2:35)
08. IV. Double. Presto (2:47)
09. V. Sarabande (2:10)
10. VI. Double (1:26)
11. VII. Tempo di Borea (2:02)
12. VIII. Double (2:03)
Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003
13. I. Grave (4:01)
14. II. Fuga (7:22)
15. III. Andante (4:35)
16. IV. Allegro (6:09)

CD2
Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
01. I. Allemanda (4:05)
02. II. Corrente (3:33)
03. III. Sarabanda (4:01)
04. IV. Giga (4:13)
05. V. Ciaccona (14:04)
Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005
06. I. Adagio (4:22)
07. II. Fuga (9:46)
08. III. Largo (3:15)
09. IV. Allegro assai (3:41)
Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006
10. I. Preludio (3:36)
11. II. Loure (4:12)
12. III. Gavotte en Rondeau (3:08)
13. IV. Menuet I (1:56)
14. V. Menuet II - Menuet I da capo (2:02)
15. VI. Bourrée (1:30)
16. VII. Gigue (1:59)

Nathan Milstein plays these magnificent pieces with patrician elegance, easily overcoming their all-but-insurmountable difficulties. His burnished tone has a warmth like that of mahogany, and his fine fingerwork and flawless bowing make for an assured connection of ideas. In the Chaconne to the D minor Partita--which can make even a very good violinist sound overmatched and inept--he zeroes in with the sort of concentration one usually sees in chess champions. Here, as elsewhere in the cycle, Milstein projects not only the music's emotive force, but Bach's grand architecture as well. And thanks to the "Originals" remastering, his sound is more burnished than ever. --Ted Libbey