A journey to Bach's Chaconne in D minor
Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps a musical landscape around Bach's chaconne with works by Tarquinio Merula, Johannes Brahms, Lou Harrison, Jeff Buckley and Niccolo Paganini.
One of the longest and hardest solo pieces ever written for the violin, the Chaconne is the fifth and final movement of J.S Bach's Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004.
In today's Music Map Sara Mohr-Pietsch plots the musical landscape around it, travelling down lamento bass lines, through shifts from minor to major and back again, and towards ever-increasing displays of solo virtuosity, through the sound worlds of Tarquinio Merula, Johannes Brahms, Lou Harrison, Jeff Buckley and Niccolo Paganini.
Producer: Ruth Thomson
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Music Played
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Partita no.2 in D minor BWV.1004 (Sarabande)
Performer: Alina Ibragimova.- HYPERION.
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Tarquinio Merula
Ciaccona (from Canzone op.12)
Music Arranger: Erik Rydval. Ensemble: Lodestar Trio.- NAXOS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (BWV 150) - final chorus
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- SDG.
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- Brahms: Symphonies 1-4. Berliner Philharmoniker - Rattle.
- EMI.
- 4.
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George Frideric Handel
Chaconne in G major HWV 435
Performer: Murray Perahia.- SONY.
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Lou Harrison
Suite for Violin and American Gamelan - Chaconne
Performer: David Abel. Performer: William Winant.- NEW ALBION.
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Henry Purcell
Dido's Lament: "When I am laid in Earth"
Performer: Leontyne Price. Orchestra: Orchestra della RCA Italiana. Conductor: Francesco MolinariâPradelli.- RCA.
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Nina Simone
Feeling Good
- I Put A Spell On You.
- Silva Screen.
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Louis Couperin
Suite in D minor (Chaconne)
Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.- Couperin: Dances From The Bauyn Manuscript.
- Hyperion.
- 7.
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Jeff Buckley
Lilac Wine
- COLUMBIA/LEGACY.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu No 2 in A flat major Op.142
Performer: Alfred Brendel.- DECCA.
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Anonymous
Diverse bizzarie sopra la vecchia sarabanda o pur ciaccona
Performer: Mirjam MĂŒnzel. Music Arranger: Mirjam MĂŒnzel. Ensemble: Lux Musicae London.- FIRST HAND RECORDS.
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NicolĂČ Paganini
24 Caprices Op.24: No 1 in A minor
Performer: Itzhak Perlman.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op.43: Variations 19-23
Performer: Nikolai Lugansky. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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