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 ...

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.