Tag: Chaconne

  • PROGRAM NOTES: ISATA KANNEH-MASON

    PROGRAM NOTES: ISATA KANNEH-MASON

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata No. 14 in C minor  K. 457 In 1785 Mozart’s Sonata in C minor was published together with the composer’s Fantasia in C minor as a single opus, with the Fantasia forming a kind of introductory ‘prelude’ to the sonata. Given that the Fantasia was composed many months after the sonata,…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: IGOR LEVIT

    PROGRAM NOTES: IGOR LEVIT

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    Johann Sebastian Bach Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004 (arr. Brahms) The Bach revival of the 19th century began with a performance of the
 St. Matthew Passion in Berlin in 1829, conducted by the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn. It reached its stride at mid-century with the founding, by Robert Schumann and others, of the Bach-Gesellschaft, a society…