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I read an article in the Strad magazine about him recording Bach's violin solo (for the second time). Have you heard it? Any good? No I have not heard it. I have already a version of the Sonates and Partita's of Bach on LP of Thomas Zehetmair. I collect rare violinconcerto's, one version, and I am not so critically about the way the violinist plays. Only 4 cd's I replaced because of big intonation problems. I dislike violinist who play only all the well known pieces, like the Bruch, Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, 3th Saint-Saens pieces or play the Bach sonates or the 24 Paganini caprices or the Ysaye soantes, because there are enough good versions on the market. The most terrible violinist are the ones who dare to record an evergreenviolinpiece for the second time in their live, so show their improvements on that piece, instead of recording some less or unrecorded pieces for collectors like me and to promote good rare pieces. A lot of less recorded pieces are not second rank, but the problem is that nobody knows them, because professional violinist don't listen enough to rarities and listening should be part of their job. If a professional violinist is studying 4 hours a day he or she should listen every day 2 hours to unknown classical music or looking for 2 hours in archives for specialties. The result now is that non second rank rarities are seldom heard in the concerthalls.

Happily enough Tetzlaff had discovered the rare but beautiful 2th violinconcerto of Joseph Joachim and will soon record it.

I understand and agree about too many recordingss of popular violin pieces. I'm now almost running out of new CDs to collect without having duplicated pieces.

That said, I do have 6 different recordings of Bach's violin solo for learning/study purposes. There are those who play in baroque style, modern style, combination of both etc. I thought it's good to listen to different interpretations of the music.