Antje Weithaas, Violine Alexander von Heissen, Cembalo

The Leipzig Bach Competition honours its winners: almost everything that can be heard successfully today with the music of the Thomaskantor has won there at some point; Antje Weithaas in 1988, Alexander von Heißen in 2022. Now they have formed a duo and devote themselves to the chamber music of Bach, his son and Darius Milhaud.  
There are probably seven-digit numbers of works for violin and harpsichord as an accompanying instrument in the Baroque period, but only a few for violin and the obligatory harpsichord, and Bach's are certainly the best of all. In the fast movements, Bach the father writes exclusively for three voices: violin + right hand + left hand harpsichord, but within this contrapuntal restriction he ignites a firework display of breathtaking virtuosity. 
His son Carl Philipp Emanuel is in no way inferior; the final Presto could have been written by his father, but the Adagio from Potsdam in 1749 already points towards Mozart and Vienna. And the first movement? Grand opera! Two sopranos duel each other!
It's not far from Darius Milhaud, who wrote his unfortunately very rarely heard sonata in the USA in 1945. Although unmistakably inspired by Bach, a habanera nevertheless sneaks into the last movement! 

(Christian Kabitz)