The idea for this CD came about on the occasion of concerts on 28 and 31 October 2021, in which Bach works for violin and keyboard instrument were performed in front of enthusiastic audiences in the Bach House as part of the annual Eisenach Bach Festival.

The recordings were made in 2022 in the museum's instrument hall. The order on the double-CD follows the original live programme. David Shemer plays five historical keyboard instruments from the collection of the Bach House Eisenach, Walter Reiter a baroque violin by Matthias Klotz from 1727.

The Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV1014-1019, which form the core of the programme, date from Bach's Kothen period and are considered to be the forerunners of the classical sonatas for violin and piano by Mozart or Beethoven, for example. The first five of these sonatas are in the traditional form of the church sonata with the movement pattern slow–fast–slow–fast. The Sixth Sonata in G major, which has five to six movements depending on the version, is out of the series. Bach revised it several times, and in the second version, BWV1019.2, he added a new Cantabile based on the aria "Heil und Segen" from the cantata "Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille", BWV120, which is also played in the programme.

The Sonata in G major, BWV1021, for violin and basso continuo was only discovered in 1928. It is preserved in a manuscript made partly by Bach and partly by his second wife Anna Magdalena. Here Ira Givol also plays on a baroque cello by Pieter Rombouts from 1720. The Sonata in E minor, BWV1023, could have been written during Bach's Weimar period. Its only copy preserved in Dresden probably comes from the estate of the violin virtuoso Johann Georg Pisendel.

In 1739, on the 200th anniversary of the Reformation in Leipzig, Bach had the third part of his Clavierübung printed, the so-called Organ Mass, by his own publishing house. At the end of the mass he composed four duets that can be played on the harpsichord or organ. These works round off the concert and thus also the CD programme.