Bach: 6 Partitas

Zhu Xiao-Mei occupies a place all her own in today’s musical world. Deliberately keeping her concerts few and far between, she appears in public only to perform especially demanding works, ‘mountains of the soul’ which she judges essential, in interpretations matured over a long period of gestation, taking music to the most varied audiences in places that appeal to her and where she enjoys playing. But though she is nowadays the guest of the leading concert halls and the most prestigious festivals, from the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris to the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, from the Festival de La Roque d’Anthéron to La Folle Journée in Nantes, Bilbao and Tokyo, her career very nearly never took place at all.