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Bach's second partita is one of the most demanding and exciting works in the repertoire for solo violin. It has the usual four movements of a suite with the addition of a final brilliant chaconne. ...The chaconne is a series of thirty variations on the same eight bar theme. The soloist for this recital is Ruggiero Ricci, one of the world's leading virtuoso players. Here he plays the first four movements of an unmodernised violin of the 18th century. For the final chaconne he uses his own Guarnerius del Gesu of 1734.
Bach's second partita is one of the most demanding and exciting works in the repertoire for solo violin. It has the usual four movements of a suite with the addition of a final brilliant chaconne. ...The chaconne is a series of thirty variations on the same eight bar theme. The soloist for this recital is Ruggiero Ricci, one of the world's leading virtuoso players. Here he plays the first four movements of an unmodernised violin of the 18th century. For the final chaconne he uses his own Guarnerius del Gesu of 1734.
| Module code and title: | A304, The development of instruments and their music |
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| Item code: | A304; 04 |
| First transmission date: | 27-03-1974 |
| Published: | 1974 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:24 |
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| Producer: | Richard Callanan |
| Contributors: | Owain Edwards; Ruggiero Ricci |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Subject terms: | Chaconne |
| Footage description: | The programme is briefly introduced voice over by Owain Edwards. Ruggiero Ricci plays "Partita no.2 in D minor" for solo violin by J.S. Bach on an old fashioned violin. First movement: Allemande. Second movement: Courante. Third movement: Sarabande. Fourth movements: Gigue. Fifth movement: Chaconne, played on a 'modern violin', a modified Guarnerius del Gesu constructed in 1734. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71070 |
| Production number: | 00525_3177 |
| Videofinder number: | 2626 |
| Available to public: | no |
