All the movements are worthy of equal listening but the final chaconne of this Partita has a greatness of its own. It is as if Bach, a deeply religious man, wrote this Partita to convey his ...

Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin (HAM-eh-lin) performs Busoni's arrangement of J.S. Bach's Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004, a piece Bach originally wrote for solo violin. This recording ...

Uto Ughi recounts the life and artistic career of Johann Sebastian Bach, performing several of his pieces: Concerto in E major for violin and strings, BWV 1042; Partita in D minor, BWV 1004; Concerto ...

One of Britain's most popular young violinists, Nicola Benedetti, is joined by her friends the pianist Alexei Grynyuk and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, in a concert of Bach, Korngold and Brahms. The ...

Much of the composing had already been done by Bach back in 1720, but Busoni's version is so brilliant that one masterpiece for the violin became a new one for piano.