Since Viktoria Mullova first recorded Bach's works for solo violin in the late 1990s for Phillips, she has rethougjht her whole approach to baroque music. for this newest set of performances, she has strung her Guadagnini instrument from 1750 with gut, tuned it down to baroque pitch and played it with an 18th - century bow. the result is very different from those impressive if slightly steely, earlier accounts. A trace of the earlier Mullova gives Bach's lines more freedom to breathe; it's impossible to imagine the younger, more fiery and austere performer presenting the great Chaconne from the D minr Partita in the amusing, affectionate way she delivers it here. She still winds up the tension in a superbly convincing way, however, just as she dispatches the technical challenges of the fugue in the C major Sonata with tremendous elan. In everything she plays, Mullova's sense of an ongoing musical line is immaculate and totally unselfconscious, if occasionally just a shade cool and under -characterised; the authority of her performances is never in doubt.**** -( sursa amazon.co.uk)