Name: Linz 0 by jcfischer
Duration: 9 min 25 s
Description: Preparing for a live performance with audience participation at a conference in Linz. Recorded early in the morning after a night out on the Danube in a thunderstorm

written by : Dirk L.
Lyrics and Tune: Julia P

The only one

Listening to the chaconne is as rich and layered an experience as the story behind the music. Whatever meaning you ascribe to the chaconne — personal, civic, divine, or none at all — it's certain to leave its mark.

Johann Sebastian Bach's chaconne has been arranged for nearly every instrument: from the ominous-sounding organ to the solo flute or the delightfully sparse marimba. Or, listen to these renditions by an enterprising clarinetist and an equally ambitious saxophonist. Or how about this menacing arrangement for trumpet and orchestra and this lyrical performance by two cellos. There is truly an arrangement for everyone.

But it's something spectacular when a great violinist performs the chaconne.

Tim Fain's live performance during Krista's conversation with Bernard Chazelle at WXQR's Bachstock is no exception. Before a full house at The Greene Space, he played Bach's chaconne, the fifth and final movement from Partita No. 2. As our executive editor Trent Gilliss observed, "It's a rarity and a privilege to be able to listen to a 15-minute violin solo without an orchestra." Especially a great performance like Tim Fain's, who is known for his electrifying recordings in Black Swan and 12 Years a Slave.

This performance is included in On Being's radio production, "Discovering the Cosmology of Bach" (http://www.onbeing.org/program/bernard-chazelle-discovering-the-cosmology-of-bach/7026)

Johann Sebastian Bach: "Chaconne" from Partita in D Minor for Solo Violin - Tim Fain

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Preparing for a live performance with audience participation at a conference in Linz. Recorded early in the morning after a night out on the Danube in a thunderstorm

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You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Stephan Thelen
© 2016 Inner Sunset Publishing
℗ 2017 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet
Recorded July 2017 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered and mixed by Alex Spencer
Assistant engineer: Peter Labberton
Production Assistant: Reshena Liao
Edited at Lazy Dog Sound Studios, Long Beach, CA
Mixed by Alex Spencer and David Harrington at Decibelle Recording, San Francisco, CA

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Here's the full recording of a live improvisation I did for Deep Happening PDX, a curated evening of art that's hosted at the stunning Bodecker Foundation in Portland, OR. 

All the performances happen in a skate bowl, with the audience surrounding the lip of the bowl. Some people even sit on the edge with their legs dangling over the side. Such an amazing space! The only complicated thing was setting my rig up in a space that had flat surface!

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