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 ...

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 ...

Lara St. John, violin (Well-Tempered Productions). Look past the alluring but inapt cover photo of waif-like Canadian violinist Lara St. John wearing naught but her fiddle and turn the volume down on ...

Violinists often take on a movement or two of a Bach sonata or partita to show off their chops. Unaccompanied, the violinist is out there alone to roll out harmonies and contrapuntal textures that you ...

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All the movements are worthy of equal listening but the final chaconne of this Partita has a greatness of its own. It is as if Bach, a deeply religious man, wrote this Partita to convey his ...

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Bach wrote six keyboard partitas over five years in the late 1720s — suites of French dances, but far from the ballroom. Pianist Vladimir Feltman plays the Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor at the Great ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The five movements of Bach’s Partita No. 2 take their names from baroque dances, but this famously difficult solo for ...

Bach Partita No. 2 Audio will be available later today. Fred Child talks with pianist Richard Goode about Bach's Keyboard Partita No. 2.