These Sonatas for Violin and piano are simply wonderful.  Both instruments share in the importance of the music, each trading leading roles in each piece.  Hahn and Zhu play beautifully, though perhaps not in a period purist style.  This is one of my favorite cds in my small but growing collection of violin music and it is a delight every time I turn it on.  Listen to excerpts after the break.

This two disk set of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin presents an wonderful interpretation of the music using a Baroque style instrument and gut strings.  John Holloway is a pioneer of the early music movement which seeks to reproduce early music in the manner it was originally intended and heard.  Holloway approaches Bach’s masterpiece from a perspective of the music that came before in contrast to many twentieth century violinists who approach these works with a perspective of what came after.
Check out the authentically Baroque Sonatas and Partitas …