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 ...

Much of the composing had already been done by Bach back in 1720, but Busoni's version is so brilliant that one masterpiece for the violin became a new one for piano. Composer: Ferruccio Busoni ...

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 ...

Chaconne on guitar We hear guitarist David Leisner playing his own arrangement of the Chaconne from J.S. Bach's (1685-1750) Partita in D Minor, originally for solo violin. We're in concert at the ...

It's more than six years since Mikhail Pletnev gave a recital in the UK. He's spent much of that time concentrating on conducting, and it's only recently that he has returned to the piano. This disc ...

Much of the composing had already been done by Bach back in 1720, but Busoni's version is so brilliant that one masterpiece for the violin became a new one for piano.