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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JS Bach’s employment at the Cöthen court in the late 1710s and early 1720s coincided with one of his most fruitful creative periods. Many of his finest string compositions date from this time, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alexandre Oguey and Diana Doherty perform a new arrangement of Bach's Chaconne for solo violin.

"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) ...

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 ...

For pianist James Rhodes, the composer’s music expressed feelings that he could not put into words – and kept helping him as his mental health suffered in adulthood When I found a cassette tape of the ...