Vitali Chaconne

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="a79015a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>906-910 W. Ainslie Condominiums </B></FONT><B>  </B><B>   |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="906910 W. Ainslie Condominiums "><B>home</B></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Chaconne in G Minor for Violin & Piano</B></I></div> <div> <B>by Tomaso Antonio Vitali</B></div> <div> <I>Asako Kremer, violin</I></div> <div> <I>Jean Shamo, piano</I></div> <div> <B>If your computer's sound system is working you should be hearing a commercially recorded excerpt.</B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="443" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 257 WIDTH="433"><div> Whereas Telemann composed more than 3,000 compositions - a world record according to Guinness - his Italian contemporary, Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composed but a few, with <U>Chaconne in G Minor for Violin & Piano</U> the only one still performed nowadays. As a musical form, chaconnes are very simple: a single brief harmonic pattern becomes the basis for an extended series of variations. Vitali's harmonic pattern here is the set of four descending chords that open the piece, and they stay firmly at the core of the 40+ variations that follow. But the virtuosic violin part have caused some to wonder about authenticity. Might this Chaconne be a fabrication by the 19th century violinist who popularized it? Either way - and with no orginal manuscript -- it is now a staple of the modern violinists' concert repertoire.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> <a href="JavaScript:window.close()">Close</a>  </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I> <p> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0" width=0 height=0 align="absmiddle"> <param name=movie value="mp3ss209s.swf"> <param name=quality value=best> <param name=wmode value=transparent> <param name=bgcolor value=#FFFFFF> <param name=loop value=false> <embed src="mp3ss209s.swf" quality=best wmode=transparent bgcolor=#FFFFFF loop=false width=0 height=0 type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" align="absmiddle"> </embed> </object> </p>  </I></FONT></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="614" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 149 WIDTH="150"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="149" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="150" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="453"><bR> <bR> <div> <I>                                            </I></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>