Antje Weithaas wanted to join J.S. Bach's Six Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin alongside Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Solo Violin Sonatas. "The works by Bach...

Antje Weithaas wanted to join J.S. Bach's Six Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin alongside Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Solo Violin Sonatas. "The works by Bach are rather well-known", she remarks. "But what about the Ysaÿe sonatas" Ysaÿe is invariably shoved into the virtuoso corner but as a composer he is to be taken quite seriously!"