All Bach's Chaconne articles
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Focus
Double Acts: cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and violinist Maxim Vengerov
Before he became friends with Mstislav Rostropovich, Maxim Vengerov had to learn how to drink. From October 2004
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Review
Book review: Chaconne Handbook I–II
Robin Stowell reviews Márta Ábrahám’s treatise on the famed Chaconne, another in her series of discussions of Bach masterpieces
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Video
Bach Chaconne on 11-string guitar
Moran Wasser performs his own arrangement for eleven-string guitar of the Chaconne from Bach’s Partita no.2 Watch some of our favourite violinists play the work in our Bach Chaconne on Film series: James Ehnes Ida Haendel Arthur Grumiaux Nathan Milstein Isaac Stern Ivry Gitlis Gil Shaham Viktoria Mullova ...
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Video
Santiago Cañón Valencia plays Bach Chaconne cello transcription
Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón Valencia, who was recently presented with the 2018 János Starker Award here performs his own transcription of the Chaconne from Bach’s Partita no.2. This video was made at the Luis Angel Arango Hall in Bogotá on 13 August 2017.
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Video
Bach's Chaconne, performed by Johnny Gandelsman and the Limón Dance Company
In this video from WQXR, members of the New York based Limón Dance Company dance to Bach’s Chaconne played live by violinist Johnny Gandelsman (of Brooklyn Rider and Silk Road Ensemble). The choreography is by the company’s founder José Limón.
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Video
Midori plays the Bach Chaconne at Castle Köthen
Midori plays the Chaconne from Bach’s Partita no.2 in D minor, BWV 1004, at the Castle of Köthen, where Bach wrote the Sonatas and Partitas during the time he served as Kapellmeister (1717-1723). Midori plays on the 1734 Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ ‘Huberman’. Read The Strad’s 7 ways to play perfect ...