Passacaglia

Its nine short movements unfold as if from one musical seed, flowering in the final Passacaglia, which is almost as long as the total of the preceding sections.

Miklós Perényi: Britten, Bach, Ligeti 2012

Ms. LeCrone ' s duet for the event, " Passacaglia, " will be her 21st dance to date, and it reflects the fluid style of movement she ' s been honing as choreographer-in-residence at the city ' s New Chamber Ballet and the Columbia Ballet Collaborative.

Stepping Into the Future Elaine Stuart 2010

The most noticeable choice - "the boldest" selection, according to Scorsese - is the thundering "Passacaglia" movement from Krzysztof Penderecki's "Symphony No. 3."

CTV News RSS Feed 2010

The most noticeable choice - "the boldest" selection, according to Scorsese - is the thundering "Passacaglia" movement from Krzysztof Penderecki's "Symphony No. 3."

Fore, right! JAKE COYLE 2010

Mr. Watkins and his violist colleague Larry Power cited Krása's "Passacaglia and Fugue" and "Tanec" "Dance", both for string trio, as pieces they particularly admire.

Still, the Music Played On Barbara Jepson 2012

Goode certainly exploits that tonal weight and coherence in this recital; the sombre power he generates in the magisterial C minor Passacaglia and Fugue, and the crispness of the bravura flourishes of the Toccata, Adagio and Fugue are equally effective, while the two preludes and fugues, the introspective B minor and distinctly perky G major, are brilliantly contrasted.

Bach: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C; Preludes and Fugues in B minor and G, etc – review 2011

Mikhail and members of the New York Philharmonic will be performing music written by legendary violin virtuoso and composer Nathan Milstein, the notoriously difficult Passacaglia for violin and viola on a theme by Handel by Johan Halvorsen, and Schumann's gorgeous Piano Quartet.

Michelle Edgar: Music Unites Gets Behind Mikhail Simonyan To Raise Funds for Afghanistan National Institute of Music 2010

Mikhail and members of the New York Philharmonic will be performing music written by legendary violin virtuoso and composer Nathan Milstein, the notoriously difficult Passacaglia for violin and viola on a theme by Handel by Johan Halvorsen, and Schumann's gorgeous Piano Quartet.

Michelle Edgar: Music Unites Gets Behind Mikhail Simonyan To Raise Funds for Afghanistan National Institute of Music 2010

Cummings is more measured and grave, but the cumulative effect of the eight suites (especially the seventh, with its tremendous Passacaglia) is quite wonderful – this is like Handel playing to you in your own living room.

Handel: Eight Great Harpsichord Suites; Handel, Purcell, Haydn: Suites and Sonatas 2010

The last one may not make as much sense, er, visually, but excepting the former's "Jesus of Suburbia" and the latter's Passacaglia they both have a knack for brevity.

Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene Matthew Guerrieri 2007