Bookspan writes, “The celebrated Chaconne from the D Minor Partita represents one of the highest peaks of Bach’s creation in this medium.” The medium to which he refers is unaccompanied violin, ...

Arnold Steinhardt is the author of Violin Dreams, a memoir about his ultimate challenge: playing Bach's Chaconne, a 15-minute-long piece for solo... 'Violin Dreams': Chasing Bach's Elusive Chaconne ...

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 ...

Stradivarius violins are lately on the minds of many Americans, thanks to the media’s coverage of the theft and subsequent recovery of a Strad owned by the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony. One ...

St. John’s College’s Great Hall will be echoing with the sounds of great music in the coming weeks when the faculty and guest artists of the Heifetz Institute turn Annapolis into a summer music ...

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 ...

The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts was abuzz Wednesday evening with a sense of anticipation usually reserved for a rock band or royalty. This time, the capacity audience of adoring fans and ...