Suggestions for Solo Violin Recordings

Nice recommendations so far. Love the suggestions for Kyung Wha Chung, Rachel Podger, Sigiswald Kuijken and Johanna Martzy. I will add a few additional artists whose performances are always worth watching out for:

Chiara Banchini
Lisa Batiatishvili
Arturo Delmoni
Vilde Frang 
Janine Jansen
Sherban Lupu
Wanda Wilkomirska

I would avoid the Hilary Hahn solo Bach CD--she was in her mid-teens when it was done and I think she should have waited another ten years or more.  She's great with other stuff, IMO.

I would not argue with any of the  fine suggestions on here.Esp. Rachel Barton Pine and Wanda Wilkomirska .Kuijken is King in
early music style , often plays live here in Twin Cities .

I just  believe  Kyung Wha Chung has a musical soul that is a truly beyond comparison or comprehension .

Players in the "Historically Informed" camp have been fairly criticized for their sometimes less-than-world-class technique and pitch precision (more in the movement's early days than today). Still, I love Baroque music played without 18th and 19th Century vibrato added to notes, vibrato that was not employed at the time the music was written and originally performed. I also love the sound of antique stringed instruments (both original and reproductions), and prefer the harpsichord to the piano. I also highly value the music played at it's score-specified brisk tempi, rather than slowed down to Romantic ones. This was dance music!

AMEN .