Help
Skip to main content
Basket 0 items, $0.00

Special offer. JS Bach: ‘Sei Solo’

Christine Busch (baroque violin)

JS Bach: ‘Sei Solo’

Awards:

I find Busch's playing utterly compelling. As well as impeccable intonation, she sustains an eloquently punctuated and gently modulated dialogue, into which her listener is immediately drawn....

BBC Music Magazine, June 2013

More reviews

Special offer. JS Bach: ‘Sei Solo’

Christine Busch (baroque violin)

Purchase product

2 CDs

Original price $30.50 Reduced price $22.87

This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched.

A Musical Picture - up to 25% off selected titles

Special offer ends: 09/09/2026

Download

From Original price $13.25 Reduced price $9.25

Download

Audio formats guide

44.1 kHz, 24 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

Original price ($26.75) Reduced price $18.75

44.1 kHz, 16 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

Original price ($20.00) Reduced price $14.00

320 kbps, MP3

Original price ($13.25) Reduced price $9.25

This release includes a digital booklet

A Musical Picture - up to 25% off selected titles

Special offer ends: 09/09/2026
Stream now Hi-RES 44.1 kHz, 24 bit
Free 30 day trial

Awards:

I find Busch's playing utterly compelling. As well as impeccable intonation, she sustains an eloquently punctuated and gently modulated dialogue, into which her listener is immediately drawn....

BBC Music Magazine, June 2013

More reviews

About

Over the past 40 years Philippe Herreweghe has been working with some extraordinary soloists with whom he has had very fertile and stimulating dialogues, both musically and personally.

Philippe Herreweghe: “It seems important to give these musicians the opportunity to express themselves on the label PHI in works they are particularly fond of.”

This is the case of the present recording. Christine Busch, leader of the orchestra of Collegium Vocale Gent, recorded the Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin by J. S. Bach – a work she admires, and she has been playing since her childhood.

Philippe Herreweghe: “Christine Busch inspires by her technical perfection, her strength, her humility, her sense for poetry, as well as by her qualities needed to serve the greatest of all composer.”

  • Release date: 25th Feb 2013
  • Label: PHI
  • Catalogue number: LPH008
  • Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
  • Genre:

Contents and tracklist

Bach, J S: Sonata for solo violin No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001
Work length16:25
  • Christine Busch
  • Recorded: 18-21 December 2011, 8-10 February 2012
  • Recording Venue: Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Reitstadel
I. Adagio
Track length3:58
II. Fuga, allegro
Track length5:34
III. Siciliana
Track length2:57
IV. Presto
Track length3:56
Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 1 in B minor, BWV1002
Work length32:14
  • Christine Busch
  • Recorded: 18-21 December 2011, 8-10 February 2012
  • Recording Venue: Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Reitstadel
I. Allemande
Track length6:01
II. Double
Track length3:25
III. Corrente
Track length3:59
IV. Double, presto
Track length4:22
V. Sarabande
Track length4:07
VI. Double
Track length2:49
VII. Tempo di borea
Track length3:39
VIII. Double
Track length3:52
Bach, J S: Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003
Work length23:51
  • Christine Busch
  • Recorded: 18-21 December 2011, 8-10 February 2012
  • Recording Venue: Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Reitstadel
I. Grave
Track length4:07
II. Fuga
Track length8:27
III. Andante
Track length5:11
IV. Allegro
Track length6:06
Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004
Work length31:04
This work is only available as an album download.
  • Christine Busch
  • Recorded: 18-21 December 2011, 8-10 February 2012
  • Recording Venue: Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Reitstadel
I. Allemande
Track length4:42
II. Corrente
Track length2:39
III. Sarabande
Track length4:18
IV. Giga
Track length4:22
V. Ciaccona
Track length15:03
This track is only available as an album download.
Bach, J S: Sonata for solo violin No. 3 in C major, BWV1005
Work length23:56
  • Christine Busch
  • Recorded: 18-21 December 2011, 8-10 February 2012
  • Recording Venue: Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Reitstadel
I. Adagio
Track length4:17
II. Fuga
Track length11:10
III. Largo
Track length3:11
IV. Allegro assai
Track length5:18
Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV1006
Work length17:58
  • Christine Busch
  • Recorded: 18-21 December 2011, 8-10 February 2012
  • Recording Venue: Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Reitstadel
I. Preludio
Track length4:13
II. Loure
Track length3:45
III. Gavotte en rondeau
Track length3:04
IV. Menuet I
Track length1:38
V. Menuet II
Track length1:49
VI. Bourée
Track length1:36
VII. Gigue
Track length1:53

Awards and reviews

  • BBC Music Magazine
    June 2013
    Instrumental Choice

June 2013

I find Busch's playing utterly compelling. As well as impeccable intonation, she sustains an eloquently punctuated and gently modulated dialogue, into which her listener is immediately drawn. Her spacious tempos seem chosen to convey the musical argument with cogency and expressive charm.

June 2013

Busch brings a wide experience as a chamber and period-orchestra player as well as formidable technical and interpretative skills to these iconic works...Busch speaks directly through her instrument with a warmth and intelligence that engages and disarms.

16th July 2013

Her probing musicianship and reluctance to take anything - editorially speaking - at face value is allied to a considered approach to all six works, generating performances of illuminating intelligence...For a historically informed set of the Sonatas and Partitas that reflects technical and expressive control, these performances are highly commended.
View download progress

Download queue