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 ...

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 ...

The three partitas are in suite form with five to eight “dance” movements; the second in D minor ends with the famous Chaconne, a monument of contrapuntal writing, running more than 13 minutes.

In the grim pandemic nadir of September 2020, violinist Soovin Kim stepped out on an empty stage at the New England Conservatory in Boston and performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas ...