![]() Creating art then and there was not an act of personal expression but one of civic or religious service. Such Romantic notions would never have occurred to a court composer who had trained in the late 1600s as a Lutheran town organist. ![]() “There is no evidence that Bach himself considered the chaconne to encode an entire vista of the universe or to sound out his own emotional depths. In an essay for the LA Review of Books, Michael Markham writes: If one doesn’t have the greatest violinist around, then it is well the most beautiful pleasure to simply listen to its sound in one’s mind.”īut while Brahms was a composer of the Romance era of music (for whom personal emotions were paramount), Bach did not inhabit the same world. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind. “On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. Fellow composer Johannes Brahms, in a letter to Clara Schumann described the piece like this: ![]() Historians speculate that Bach composed it after returning from a trip and found his wife (and the mother of seven of his children) Maria Barbara had died. As our executive editor Trent Gilliss observed, “It’s a rarity and a privilege to be able to listen to a 15-minute violin solo without an orchestra.” Especially a great performance like Tim Fain’s, who is known for his electrifying recordings in Black Swan and 12 Years a Slave.īach composed the chaconne sometime between 17. Before a full house at The Greene Space, he played Bach’s chaconne, the fifth and final movement from Partita No. Tim Fain’s live performance during Krista’s conversation with Bernard Chazelle at WXQR’s Bachstock is no exception. There is truly an arrangement for everyone.īut it’s something spectacular when a great violinist performs the chaconne. Or how about this menacing arrangement for trumpet and orchestra and this lyrical performance by two cellos. Or, listen to these renditions by an enterprising clarinetist and an equally ambitious saxophonist. Johann Sebastian Bach’s chaconne has been arranged for nearly every instrument: from the ominous-sounding organ to the solo flute or the delightfully sparse marimba.
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