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 ...
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.