Christoph Poppen, violin; Hilliard Ensemble (ECM New Series). Welcome inside the head of J.S. Bach. The composer often embedded familiar Lutheran chorales in his music so as to create devout ...
Find out more about Bach's dazzling piece which remains the pinnacle of the solo violin repertoire. J. S. Bach's Chaconne - more correctly named in Italian, Ciaccona - is the final movement of the ...
To the “Three Bs” of the classical pantheon — Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms — pianist Hélène Grimaud makes a strong case for the addition of a fourth: The composer, pianist, and conductor Ferruccio ...
Arnold Steinhardt is the author of Violin Dreams, a memoir about his ultimate challenge: playing Bach's Chaconne, a 15-minute-long piece for solo... 'Violin Dreams': Chasing Bach's Elusive Chaconne ...
For pianist James Rhodes, the composer’s music expressed feelings that he could not put into words – and kept helping him as his mental health suffered in adulthood ...
St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, sitting on a lush lawn among towering evergreen trees in Gresham, will soon echo with the brilliant violin music of Johann Sebastian Bach. and leader of , will perform a ...
Chaconne in D minor, transc. for piano [from Bach's Partita for violin solo, BWV 1004]Chaconne in D minor, transc. for piano [from Bach's Partita for violin solo, BWV 1004] ...
Amid the landscape of Bach's music for solo violin, the Chaconne in D Minor stands out like a lone towering mountain. Ostensibly just one movement of the five that make up the Partita No. 2, it is ...