This is violinist Kyung Wha Chung's first recording since she was sidelined by illness in the early 2000s, and it's fair to say she's returned with a bang. Legions of violinists have recorded Bach's monumental set of Sonatas and Partitas , but Chung, in her late sixties when the recordings were made for the Warner Classics label, offers something distinctive. Indeed, it's the kind of reading that an artist in mid- to late-career often comes up with: careful, flawless, and born of deep acquaintance with the music. Chung ...
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This is violinist Kyung Wha Chung's first recording since she was sidelined by illness in the early 2000s, and it's fair to say she's returned with a bang. Legions of violinists have recorded Bach's monumental set of Sonatas and Partitas , but Chung, in her late sixties when the recordings were made for the Warner Classics label, offers something distinctive. Indeed, it's the kind of reading that an artist in mid- to late-career often comes up with: careful, flawless, and born of deep acquaintance with the music. Chung alternates passagework sections that pay close attention to subtle phrasing with sharp blasts in the chordal double- and triple-stops. Her deadpan passagework seems to owe something to the historical-performance movement, but this is otherwise a resolutely modern violin reading. The six pieces are taken in order, with the Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004, at the beginning; in the outsized chaconne at the end, the tensions that have built up over the course of this...
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