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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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These well-known and much-praised Phillips recordings have been around for many years. Grumiaux plays with precision and accuracy - not everyone does in this music - and his approach is without eccentricity and absolutely convincing. It all seems very faithful to Bach's intentions, even if this is not a 'period' or 'authentic' performance. I think the best word to describe these performances is 'satisfying'. Grumiaux never loses focus, the sound he makes is most beautiful, he does not seem to step between the music and the listener, and the Phillips recording is clean and spacious. Just as many have done before, I would recommend this highly.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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These works are surely up there with the St Matthew Passion and B Minor Mass as among the greatest and most influential achievements of JS Bach - the craftsmanship, virtuosity and sheer intensity of the sonatas and partitas remains, as far as I can see, unmatched to the present day. Who else but Bach could have conceived of writing fugues for an instrument not used to playing more than one note at once; and who else could pull it off so resoundingly well?! Not to mention the monumental Chaconne, a movement so vast, profound and virtuosic it leaves you gasping for breath.....
The almost legendary status of this recording (I see it has recently been re-released on a special Philips series commemorating 50 great recordings) needs very little comment. The most astounding thing for me was the way Grumiaux really manages to make his violin sound like at least two or three - the melodic line continues clearly and perfectly unbroken through all the double stopping and chords around it. And the music's intensity is brought out frightening effectively.
Yet another musical destruction of the opinion that Bach's music is excessively planned out and is nothing more than unemotional theory - anyone finding this at all dry and lacking in feeling needs their head examined!
26 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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Grumiaux is to Bach as Ashkenazy is to Rachmaninov. This has to be among the most intense and exciting violin playing in existence. Yes, Bach himself was a violinist, but it takes a player the calibre of Grumiaux to interpret it the way it ought to be performed.
When you've checked this one out, it's worth taking a listen to his rendition of the Violin Sonatas as well.
When you've checked this one out, it's worth taking a listen to his rendition of the Violin Sonatas as well.
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