Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin, BWV1001-1006:
Partita for solo violin No. 1 in B minor, BWV1002
Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004
Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV1006
Sonata for solo violin No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001
Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003
Sonata for solo violin No. 3 in C major, BWV1005

Hearing guitarist Sean Shibe’s Bach recital, recorded in Delphian’s fifteenth-century Scottish venue, Baroque violinist Bojan Cicic was inspired during the first lockdown to begin recording Bach’s iconic Partitas and Sonatas. Amid the gloom of the pandemic and restrictions on performances, Cicic travelled north – when allowed – to explore the intense rigours of Bach’s fugues and shining virtuosity of the Partitas’ fast movements. Dedicated to his late violin professor and with a booklet essay written by Mahan Esfahani, for Bojan Cicic the making of this recording in the snowbound Scottish countryside has been his greatest career highlight – a journey for him from darkness into light.