All of you who searched for a great or true recording of Bach violin sonatas and partitas know how difficult it is to find one that shows more than effort to overcome technical difficulties and manages to express the richness of ideas and feelings that these pieces embed. Well, this is a recording that it's all music. Milstein surpassed in another life the pure technical difficulties and all it concentrates here on is to make Bach's message as transparent as possible. At one time you only hear Bach telling about love, suffering, friendship , and so many more, while the violin and the violinist himself are not a noticeable presence anymore. All you hear is sound so pure and coming so straight from the place souls are born that all is an unbelievable experience.
Talking by the fire maybe you can remember about technique, about dance, virtuosity and so many other things you might hear about this recording, but when you are just listening is all about finding things that you believe coming to you through music. You meet your inner self in a way possible only through music.
Maybe this is the best of all recorded sets (I haven't listen to all) but sure is one that can set a standard. But believe me you won't care about any classifications once you've listened to it. And make sure you have this set. Nathan Milstein has another set on EMI, yet getting older and wiser did a lot of good to his approach to this music
A very must for everyone for whom music is a life keeper.
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