Although rooted in the fertile soil ofseventeenth-century German fiddle music,Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violinstand proud as works of matchless genius.

Gil Shaham sets out on an epic journey ofmusical discovery, creating the perfectconditions to experience the virtuosity,contrapuntal ingenuity and life-enhancingenergy of Bach’s Sei Solo. The Americanviolinist’s revelatory readings of the works,recently committed to disc, rest on threedecades of close study, thought andperformance experience.