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J.S. Bach wrote six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, which are rarely played, but really fantastic works. It is an utter shame that they are so largely ignored- so we took it upon ourselves to record all six of these pieces. Through the course of each Sonata, Bach gets even more interesting- you can actually hear his music developing. It's completely fascinating, and we couldn't recommend these pieces more highly! This is the second part to our recording, Sonatas No. 4 through 6.

Pianist Ramin Bahrami has concentrated to an unusual degree in performance and on recordings on the music of a single composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. He plays Bach in a traditionally pianistic way, with little influence from the historical performance movement. Bahrami was born in Tehran in 1976. When he was five, his father was imprisoned and killed after the fall of the Shah of Iran to fundamentalist Islamic forces. He fled the country with his mother and brothers, landing in Italy. There he studied at the Milan Conservatory, at the Accademia Pianistica "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola, and then at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, Germany, working there with Wolfgang Bloser. Bahrami took master classes with Alexis Weissenberg, András Schiff, and Rosalyn Tureck, the latter a Bach specialist who exerted a major influence.

Maria Banaszkiewicz-Bryla In addition to her teaching activities, she cooperates permanently with the Poznań Philharmonic, performing basso continuo parts in orchestral and vocal-instrumental works (thanks to which she had the opportunity to collaborate with S. stuligrosz, J. Kurczewski, S. Harth, N. petri, H. szeryng, I. ojstrach, D. hope and CH. Hogwood). She performs with many Polish orchestral ensembles (Collegium Viridimontanum, Collegium F, the Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra, The Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra, The Świętokrzyskie Philharmonic, the Sudetenland Philharmonic, the Lubusz Philharmonic, the Gorzow Philharmonic), and as a chamber musician she cooperates with outstanding soloists – instrumentalists and vocalists performing music the old one. As a soloist and chamber musician she has performed in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, the United States, Mexico, Hong Kong and Taiwan.