In this video from 2002, Ida Haendel plays JS Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No.2 in D minor.
Her dog was called Decca.
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Robin Stowell reviews Márta Ábrahám’s treatise on the famed Chaconne, another in her series of discussions of Bach masterpieces
In this extract from January 1999, Simon Rowland-Jones shares the challenges encountered when recording Bach’s Cello Suites on viola
In this extract from the August 2021 issue, Esther Yoo shares her experience of the sudden silence brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic and how her positive attitude helped her through dark times
The live performance with the Wiener Symphoniker and Manfred Honeck features on Dueñas’s Deutsche Grammophon debut
Restoration of the instrument uncovers the history of the damaged 19th-century German violin
The violin and double bass duo performs an arrangement of a traditional American tune in an effort to expand repertoire for the instrumentation
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