Tag: Solemn March to the Holy Grail from Parsifal

  • PROGRAM NOTES: TONY SIQI YUN

    PROGRAM NOTES: TONY SIQI YUN

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    Johann Sebastian Bach Chaconne in D minor  BWV 1004 (arr. Busoni) The 19th century witnessed a revival of interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. But the sound world of the 19th century with its new spacious concert halls and louder, more powerful instruments (played by ego-driven virtuoso performers) flourished at some remove from…

  • 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…