Midori plays the Chaconne from Bach’s Partita no.2 in D minor, BWV 1004, at the Castle of Köthen, where Bach wrote the Sonatas and Partitas during the time he served as Kapellmeister (1717-1723).
Midori plays on the 1734 Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ ‘Huberman’.
Read The Strad’s 7 ways to play perfect chords and see how other great violinists tackled the same work:
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Robin Stowell reviews Márta Ábrahám’s treatise on the famed Chaconne, another in her series of discussions of Bach masterpieces
The violinist will head the institute’s piano and strings programme beginning this autumn, succeeding Miriam Fried
Thomas May discovers how Midori’s remarkable range of commitments reflects her belief in art’s power to transform
The cellist appears alongside the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and its music director Stuart Malina
Philharmonia musicians perform one of Finland’s most popular Christmas carols, Jean Sibelius’s Julvisa
Double bassist Théotime Voisin and pianist Maurice van Schoonhoven perform an arrangement of the popular opera overture in a tribute to the bel canto tradition
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