Partitas

Love outshines the fact of pain in the same way that Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, which Mom loved so passionately, outshine all the bad music in the world, though on any given day Bach is outnumbered.

Frank Schaeffer: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics -- and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway Frank Schaeffer 2011

Love outshines the fact of pain in the same way that Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, which Mom loved so passionately, outshine all the bad music in the world, though on any given day Bach is outnumbered.

Frank Schaeffer: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics -- and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway Frank Schaeffer 2011

Love outshines the fact of pain in the same way that Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, which Mom loved so passionately, outshine all the bad music in the world, though on any given day Bach is outnumbered.

Frank Schaeffer: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics -- and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway Frank Schaeffer 2011

Love outshines the fact of pain in the same way that Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, which Mom loved so passionately, outshine all the bad music in the world, though on any given day Bach is outnumbered.

Frank Schaeffer: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics -- and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway Frank Schaeffer 2011

Isabelle Faust: Bach/Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin

Bach: The Art of Fugue, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin – review 2010

The results can be heard on his recordings of the "Goldberg Variations," the six English Suites and three of the six Partitas (the other three will be recorded next month), as well as the complete keyboard concertos, all of which he plays with pronounced musicality and a gossamer touch.

The Pianist's Passions: Constant, Recent and Renewed 2009

This year, he released his first studio recording since 2005, of Bach's Partitas No. 2, 3 and 4, and on this tour he will play varied programs featuring one of the partitas, Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata, a good dose of Chopin and in some places a Mozart sonata.

Time Off: Cultural Events Around Asia 2008

Such high standards apply to his entire career, which he has forged championing hard-core classics, particularly the concertos of Beethoven, Brahms and Berg and Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin.

Portrait of the Violinist as a Very Serious Musician 2008

This month and next, Mr. Tetzlaff will be touring the States performing four of Bach's six Sonatas and Partitas.

Portrait of the Violinist as a Very Serious Musician 2008

Most recently, he released “Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo” as a 2-CD set on ECM in fall 2005.

Latvian Violinist Gidon Kremer to Perform at UCLA on Sunday, Nov. 19 2006