Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo violin

[Kel]

HI ALL,

Anyone out there interested in Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo violin?

I recently acquired Johanna Martzy's 1950s recording on EMI Korea of these works to add to my Heifetz, Perlman, Modtkovitch, Mullova (selections), Hahn (selections), Kyung Wah Chung (selections), Sholo Mintz, Ida Haendel, Szigeti, Monica Huggett, Julia Fischer, Szeryng (his earlier SONY mono version) etc collection.

Martzy's version is difficult to find these days. But they're well worth the effort. Her playing, generally, is in between Szerying and Haendel, at least with regards to tempi. Note that I've only listened to the first 2 partitas. She favours a wide range of tempi (though not as wide as Haendel who probes thru' the famous Chaconne in just over 18 mins.!). But what was surprising was the sound...full-bodied (in 24 bit), beautiful altho mono. I have to spend more time on it before I'll say anything else.

But contributions/insights will be appreciated

[Clarissa]

Can you upload the CD here?:

http://icma.proboards104.com/index.cgi

Contributions are appreciated.

[Kel]

Unfortunately the only computer I have access to is the one in my office at the university and the university's policies do not allow downloading of files onto their hard drives or servers. I do not even have a CD-RW drive and can't down/upload anything on the server!