The violinist Gunar Letzbor is an established specialist in performing Austrian baroque music. In particular, he has intensively grappled with works by Biber, Muffat and Schmelzer, to name but three examples. In so doing, he has sought a specifically Austrian baroque string sound.

He now turns his attention to the Sonatas and Partitas for Violin BWV1001-1006 by J S Bach – the Mount Olympus of every violinist, regardless of whether he/she has specialised in historical performance practice. After having immersed himself in these works and performed them in concerts, Letzbor is now introducing them on CD.

In this first volume he has pursued an unusual approach. Through the positioning of the microphones in direct proximity to the violin, the listener becomes a participant to a certain extent, and has the opportunity to perceive even the finest nuances in a 'private' setting.