There are at least three major virtues: the recording and surfaces are faultless, Telmányi’s performances range from good to superlative, and a most interesting endeavour has been made to approximate to the instrument Bach had in mind when originally writing the works... Broadly, then, the effect of the bow is to make the audible music correspond much more closely to its appearance on paper; and the works really do, in the places concerned, take on a new lease of life. But Telmányi goes beyond just demonstrating the new bow; he has mastered it and made it his servant. And he uses it to give wonderful performances of the exhaustingly difficult works. Telmányi, again following the shape of his bow, presents it (Chaconne) as an enormous arch; it is wholly satisfying. Gramophone
Tracklist:
A Sonata No. 1 G Minor BWV 1001
B Partita No.1 B Minor BWV 1002
C1 Sonata No. 2 A Minor BWV 1003
C2 Partita No. 2 D Minor BWV 1004
D1 Sonata No. 3 C Major BWV 1005
D2 Partita No. 3 E Major BWV 1006
Composed By – Johann Sebastian Bach
Mastered By – Rainer Maillard
Violin – Emil Telmányi