Jennifer Koh Bach & Beyond Part I

Violinist Jennifer Koh’s „Bach & Beyond Part 2“ is the newest installment in a three-album cycle based on her ground-breaking, multi-year recital series of the same name. Koh, “a masterly Bach interpreter and a champion of contemporary repertory” (The New York Times), performs J S Bach’s landmark violin Sonatas and Partitas alongside 20th and 21st century solo violin works they’ve inspired, including new commissions.

Jennifer Koh’s Bach & Beyond Part 3 concludes her critically acclaimed series of recordings based on her groundbreaking, multi-season recital series of the same name that The New York Times has called “indispensable.”Koh, “a virtuoso with quirky and wonderful ideas” (San Francisco Chronicle), again pairs two of J.S. Bach’s landmark Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin with Bach-inspired 20th- and 21st-century works. On this series-finale album, Bach’s florid and fanciful Sonata No. 2 in A minor and Sonata No. 3 in C major, celebrated for its colossal Fuga movement, frame Luciano Berio’s expressive, chaconne-like Sequenza VIII and Pulitzer Prize winner John Harbison’s alluring For Violin Alone, a dance suite inspired by Bach’s partitas, written for Koh (a world-premiere recording).

American violinist Jennifer Kohs Bach & Beyond Part 3 concludes her critically acclaimed series of recordings based on her groundbreaking, multi-season recital series of the same name that The New York Times has called indispensable.

Jennifer Koh, a 'brilliant violinist' (The New Yorker) who performs with 'conviction, ferocity, and an irresistible sense of play' (Washington Post), showcases works by Kaija Saariaho, the visionary and much-honoured Finnish composer with whom Koh has closely collaborated and feels a deep personal bond.