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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Nun komm der Heiden Heiland" (Come now, Saviour of the Gentiles): "Nun komm der Heiden Heiland" (Come now, Saviour of the Gentiles) "Nun freut euch, lieben Christen" (Now be joyful all ye Christians) ...