This latest release from that great musical adventurer, violinist Isabelle Faust, is not only a homage to the multifaceted genius of JS Bach, but a tribute to her own.

It’s coming up for 20 years since Faust last explored Bach’s violin concertos, both reconstructed and original, in the studio. Back then, it was with Helmuth Rilling and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, as part of Hänssler’s ‘complete’ Bach edition. It’s now also nearly ten years since she recorded the master’s sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin. And just last year, she recorded the sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord, with the superb keyboardist Kristian Bezuidenhout.

Clearly the music of Bach is important to Faust, a musician who, while not...