Stockholm's O/Modernt ensemble, founded and directed by the iconoclastic violinist Hugo Ticciati, is a protean thing that gives concerts and carries out educational projects. The group also mounts an annual festival devoted to an older form (O/Modernt means "un-modern") as it might manifest itself in the present day. These festival concerts in turn become recordings. This one, as the title suggests, is devoted to the chaconne, one of the early Baroque forms featuring structures built from many variations on a short "ground ...
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Stockholm's O/Modernt ensemble, founded and directed by the iconoclastic violinist Hugo Ticciati, is a protean thing that gives concerts and carries out educational projects. The group also mounts an annual festival devoted to an older form (O/Modernt means "un-modern") as it might manifest itself in the present day. These festival concerts in turn become recordings. This one, as the title suggests, is devoted to the chaconne, one of the early Baroque forms featuring structures built from many variations on a short "ground bass" passage. You do hear the most famous Chaconne of them all, the one from the Bach Partita No. 2 for solo violin in D minor, BWV 1004, played by Ticciati himself, along with a couple of other Baroque chaconnes, played more traditional ways, or less traditional ones. There are vocal chaconne-like pieces with mezzo-soprano Luciana Mancini, and improvisations on chaconne patterns. Then things go further beyond the norm at the end with the three pieces labeled remixes, all three...
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