Tag: Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale Ad nos ad salutarem undam

  • 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…