Chaconne a son gout #2217
. . . composers through history have satisfied every taste by creating intriguing variations over a repeated harmonic phrase via the chaconne.
Hour One
HENRI DESMARETS: Chaconne, fr Didon –Frédéric Desenclos (1751 Dupont-2003 Cattiaux/St. Jacques, Luneville, France) Alpha 651
J.-P. RAMEAU (trans. Rechsteiner): Chaconne, fr Les Indes Galantes –Henri-Charles Caget, percussion; Yves Rechsteiner (1741 Moucherel-1754 Lépine/Church of the Nativity of Mary, Cintegabelle, France) Alpha 650
J. S. BACH (arr. Schumann): Chaconne, fr Partita No. 2 in d, BWV 1004 –Anite Stroh, violin; Bryan Anderson (1997 Fisk-Rosales/Rice University, Houston, TX) PD Archive (r. 4/3/18)
HENRY PURCELL: Chaconne in F –E. Power Biggs (1958 Flentrop/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) Sony 62751
KARL HÖLLER: Ciacona, Op. 54 –Axel Flierl (1957 Steinmeyer-2003 Klais/Ottobeuren Basilica, Germany) IFO 130
Filler – RAMEAU (see above)
Hour Two
J. S. BACH: Chaconne (Meine Tage in dem Leide), fr BWV 150 –Euwe and Sybolt de Jong (1721 F.C. Schnitger/Michaelskerk, Zwolle, Netherlands) DeJong 7
JOHANN CASPAR FERDINAND FISCHER: Chaconne in F –Gustav Leonhardt (1708 Egedacher/Schlägl Monastery, Austria) Sony 68262
C. V. STANFORD: Prelude in the Form of a Chaconne, Op. 88, no. 2 –Tom Winpenny (1892 Binns/Queen’s College Chapel, Cambridge, England) Resonus 10104
LAMBERT CHAUMONT: Chaconne in A –Fenner Douglass (1976 Flentrop/Duke University Chapel, Durham, NC) Gothic 49203
FRANZ SCHMIDT: Chaconne in c# –Keith John (1999 Nicholson/Gloucester Cathedral, England) Priory 370
Filler – DESMAREST (see above)
The chaconne has a long and proud history…and so does the term chacun a son gout!
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