The most intriguing items on this carefully manicured disc from Joshua Bell are new “arrangements” of the mighty Bach Chaconne and the jaunty Gavotte en Rondeau, adapted for strings by Julian Milone ...

It looked like an interesting swap. Joshua Bell had been billed to open his NCH concert with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, in Bach's Double Violin Concerto, with an unidentified partner. At ...

Find out more about Bach's dazzling piece which remains the pinnacle of the solo violin repertoire. J. S. Bach's Chaconne - more correctly named in Italian, Ciaccona - is the final movement of the ...

Much of the composing had already been done by Bach back in 1720, but Busoni's version is so brilliant that one masterpiece for the violin became a new one for piano.