![]() I have to give credit to my former teacher, because it has become the most respected piece in my repertoire. ![]() I always had a good prima vista-sorry for being egoistical-and my right-hand fingerings somehow come quickly, which is not always good, of course. So, my journey was without any particular studying methods, though I had a very good score with many fingerings ready to use. So once, when I got in a bit heavy mood, I just took the scores and started to play the piece, discovering all the stories connected to it and the difficulties in playing it much later. I was not like that-I actually had no idea about it at that time. For him, it was and possibly still is one of the hardest and most mystical works. One of my former teachers at the music school spent much of his life studying and playing the Chaconne, trying to find the right character, the best fingerings, even creating a whole recording studio to record a CD with his Chaconne-which he never did!). Can you tell me a bit about your journey in learning and mastering it? The Bach Chaconne has become one of the “heavyweight” works in the guitar repertoire. Right below, too, you’ll find an exclusive interview in which the guitarist talks about playing the Chaconne and more. You can go directly to this page to find more Petra videos! Poláčková playing a variety of six-string guitars, visit the site of Guitars International, which is one of the biggest U.S.-based dealers of contemporary handcrafted classical guitars. ![]() And if you’d like to see more high quality videos of Ms. In this video, as well as in the special bonus performance at the bottom of the page, Petra plays a great-sounding Jan Tuláček reproduction of a 19th century Romantic guitar. She has played all over Europe and in the United States, in both concerts and competitions, and she is also one of the driving forces behind the Guitar Festival Mikulov in the Czech Republic. Petra has been studying the guitar since she was 6, and received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the prestigious University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, where she studied primarily with professor Paolo Pegoraro. This truly wonderful recent version is played by an excellent young guitarist from the Czech Republic named Petra Poláčková. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004-is one of the most famous in the entire solo-guitar repertoire a sprawling, emotional, highly virtuosic benchmark for classical guitarists since Segovia. ![]() The work-the “Chaconne” movement from Bach’s Violin Partita No. ![]() It feels somehow appropriate that our last Video Pick of the Week before Christmas 2019 is a piece rooted in J.S. ![]()
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