the different recordings of bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin has their own attributes and their special particularities. there are for exapmle numerlous transcriptions like; pepe romero, bach-busoni, bach-brahms etc. Of the transcirptions i cant pick a favourite, this is because they all emphasise different parts of the original work and do not recite the OG bach to the fullest (for the record i have cried and felst immense joy in all of these transriptions (especially pepe romero playing, evgeny kissin and daanil triofinv playing). when it comes to violin recordings, where do i start?!?! i first heard the hillary hahn recording, this is an amazing recording to start with, it is simply terrific. after many years of a long relationship with bach (as i imagine you all have) i think the henryk szeryng is a solid recording, and solid is a key word here for me. I could not go on about this piece without mentioning menhuins recording which is bold and coragious. Menhuin is an extremely talented violinist who performs bach in an original way without compromising anything (truly amazing). I could go on and talk about heifitz, perlman, grimaux, but my favourite is Nathan Milstein. Milstein combinates the perfection in which bach is needed and the boldness in which it takes to preform this overwhelming, (and i would say) perfectly composed piece of music. truly one of the greats.
I hope you all would listen to the other recordings i recommeneded,