According to the Amazon listing, this particular recording is relatively recent. I have had a Sitkovetsky recording of the unaccompanied sonatas for about 13 years. I have always adored these Bach sonatas and have listened to and played them with fervor. But in those 13 years, I've listened to the Sitkovetsky recording probably no more than a total of 5-10 times and never all at once. The notes are all there, no mistakes. Tuning is fine. But there is no passion and no sensitivity for Baroque violin performance technique that I can detect. Sitkovetsky's interpretation is totally clinical, sterile and completely uninteresting- rather like a surgical procedure. Certainly, these are austere compositions by nature, but I don't think Bach had this kind of sterile performance practice in mind when he wrote them.