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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fift movement of Bach’s Partita in D minor for solo violin clocks in at 15 minutes — longer than its four other movements combined. The chaconne is 15 minutes of grace and beauty, and it’s ...

Ticciati’s own performance of Bach’s Chaconne, which forms the heart of the album, is something that warms into gloriousness. For the most part, Ticciati’s interpretation is careful and inconsistently ...

In his new novel, “Gould’s Book of Fish,” Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan memorably labels Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” as “that vile anthem of contemporary retailing.” Is Bach’s Partita in D Minor ...