Arnold Steinhardt is the author of Violin Dreams, a memoir about his ultimate challenge: playing Bach's Chaconne, a 15-minute-long piece for solo... 'Violin Dreams': Chasing Bach's Elusive Chaconne ...

Arnold Steinhardt. Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Old Greenwich Presbyterian Church, Bloomsbury, as part of the Raritan River Music Festival. When: 7 p.m. Friday in New York, 7:30 p.m.

Violinists often take on a movement or two of a Bach sonata or partita to show off their chops. Unaccompanied, the violinist is out there alone to roll out harmonies and contrapuntal textures that you ...

Bookspan writes, “The celebrated Chaconne from the D Minor Partita represents one of the highest peaks of Bach’s creation in this medium.” The medium to which he refers is unaccompanied violin, ...

Melissa Block and Michele Norris read from listeners' e-mails, including comments about our "Crossing the Divide" series, and our story about Bach's Chaconne. And we have a few corrections to mention ...

The fift movement of Bach’s Partita in D minor for solo violin clocks in at 15 minutes — longer than its four other movements combined. The chaconne is 15 minutes of grace and beauty, and it’s ...

Amid the landscape of Bach's music for solo violin, the Chaconne in D Minor stands out like a lone towering mountain. Ostensibly just one movement of the five that make up the Partita No. 2, it is ...