Music in this episode:
JS Bach - Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004, 5. Chaconne (c. 1717-1720) performed by Viktoria Mullova
Juan Arañés - Una sarao de la chacona, “A la vida bona" (1624) performed by Piffaro
Francesca Caccini - "Ciaccona" (c. 1620) performed by Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angiolini & Gian Luca Lastraioli
Andrea Falconieri - "Ciaccona" (c. 1650) performed by Josetxu Obregón & La Ritirata
Alessandro Piccinini - "Passacaglia" (1639) performed by Ronn McFarlane
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger - "Passacaglia" (1640) performed by Luca Pianca
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber - "Passacaglia" (1674) performed by Matthew Wadsworth
Ethan Hein - Bach Chaconne Afro Rock Mix
Claude Debussy - Preludes, Book 1 No. 1. Danseuses de Delphes (1913)
Robert Schumann - Bach Chaconne with piano accompaniment (1853) performed by Daniel Sepec and Andreas Staier
Leopold Stokowski - Bach Chaconne orchestration (1950)
Christoph Poppen & the Hilliard Ensemble - Morimur (2001)
References:
Lydia Goehr, The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Michael Markham, “Bach Anxiety: A Meditation on the Future of the Past.” In Rethinking Bach, edited by Bettina Varwig, Oxford University Press, 2021.
Alex Ross, Listen To This. Picador, 2011.
Alexander Silbiger, “Bach and the Chaconne.” The Journal of Musicology, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer, 1999), pp. 358-385
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