Remixing the Bach Chaconne

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