Recording: J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin (DVD, Accentus Music)
“[Midori] brings the music ‘home’ to the castle at Köthen where Bach wrote it, performing it in the castle’s various rooms. The idea is a nice one, and it’s equally nice to be able to watch the immersed concentration on Midori’s face as she puts in her graceful, heartfelt, neatly ornamented and technically superb performances.” (Gramophone, February 2018) “There is something profoundly moving about hearing Bach in the very spaces in which he would have played these works, and one cannot fail to be mesmerised by Midori’s flawless technique, by the orchestra of colours she coaxes from just four strings, by the eloquence and rhetoric of her phrasing. Her […]