Maxim Vengerov - Chaconne (Bach)

My grandparents are survivors of the holocaust,and Armenian genocide. This piece is a prayer within itself.5:55-6:45 reminds of all the stories my grandparents would talk about the last gasp of breath before death,the feeling of seeing your loved ones killed before your eyes,question of faith!. Babies being thrown in the air shot infront of their mothers,rape to children helpless mother viewing. Maxim captures these feelings so well with the most complex piece of music.Bach is life!

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this version of chaconne , listen best the gidon kremer

@speedy2343,
Oh yes, thank you for the information, is just that since i was a child i play with the modern tuning, and when people change the tuning just as this case, i feel lso rare, well, i´m a bit freaky...
thank you by he way. : )

no. listen to Viktoria Mullova's interpretation of Chaconne. now THATS Baroque.

baroque or not it is still amazing :)

during the Jews' stay at the camps, they were forbidden from playing any German music, so I'm guessing that's why Vengerov did that?

during the Jews' stay at the concentration camps, they were forbidden to play any German music, so I'm guessing that's why Vengerov did that?

how is that possible when bach lived over 200 years before the holocaust or any war that predominantly includes the Germans?

i know, huh? it's hard to explain to these ignorant people that it's the technically correct tuning for the pieces during that era.

amen to that.