Bach's Partitas for Solo Violin

I usually do this alphabetically by album, but I’ve been straying a bit from that this year.  Currently, I’m in the midst of listening to all of the music I have by Bach.  This includes listening to a 10-CD set of his that I got for Christmas last year.

I’m currently listening to the partitas for solo violin.  I’ve heard the first one before, but it was the version that Chris Thile did on mandolin.  So I’m fairly familiar with this music, but not in this form.

While it may be just because I’d heard the mandolin versions first and I’m prone to stick with the first version of something I listen to, I think I actually like the partitas better on mandolin just because they’re on mandolin.  In an interview with PBS News Hour, Thile briefly mentions the differences between mandolin and violin.  In order to play double, triple, or quadruple stops on a violin, the player has to put in more effort because of the curved bridge, but this is not the case on mandolin.  Listening to the first partita - especially the beginning of the tempo di borea, the difference in emphasis because of the instrumentation is clear, and the violin seems to over-emphasis the notes purely because of the way in which its played.  While the mandolin is more precise, I think it also allows for more subtlety.