With this record Foné is inaugurating a series of the complete recordings of the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach interpreted by the violinist Roberto Michelucci. Even if much of Bach's chamber music has been irredeemably lost making it impossible to follow the entire evolutionary arch of his style, the surviving works, nevertheless, give us an exact measure of the level of perfection that Bach reached in this musical genre. As do his compositions intended for other solo instruments, his Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin also attain peaks which will be difficult to superceed. At the end of the Seventeenth Century polyphonic writing for violin in Germany had already reached a high degree of accomplishment. According to contemporary witnesses, among whom Mattheson was a creditable musician in his own right, many German violinists distinguished themselves far and wide by way of the polyphonic character of their performances. Nikolaus Bruhns sat at the organ realizing, with the pedals, harmonic passages while simultaneously playing them on the violin. Another respected violinist, Nikolaus Struck, astounded Corelli during a stay in Rome in 1686 by playing double stops on the violin. Corelli, both surprised and amused, is said to have exclaimed: "I am called Archangel (Arcangelo), but you should be called Archdevil!"