There is certainly no shortage of young violin talent in today's CD world, but Julia Fischer's name should certainly be remembered. Her debut CD with PentaTone (with the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Yakov Kreizberg) contained violin concertos by Glazunov, Kachaturian and Prokofiev. With the second CD for this label she immediately enters musical heaven: the Sonatas and Partitas by Johann
… Sebastian Bach. Julia Fischer also asks herself why she has been recording this 'non plus ultra' of the violin literature at the age of 21. Nevertheless, she has played Bach on the violin almost every day since she was nine; she had already started two years earlier with the Well-Tempered Clavier. 'My day has to start with Bach. I find it very difficult to concentrate on the music of another composer before I have first, as it were, cleansed myself with Bach ', says Julia Fischer. (HJ)more