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The Chaconne, From the Ground Up  (Ticciati,19)

Ticciati surrounds himself with instrumentalists so at one with the chaconne repertoire, musicians who bring the genre’s inherent sexiness and sway to every note…Ticciati’s own performance of Bach’s Chaconne, which forms the heart of the album, is something that warms into gloriousness…O/Modernt improvise music that flows between the performers’ bodies as if it were the oxygen that they share.

Originating as a sexy dance in South America, the ‘chacona’ crossed the Atlantic and established itself in Spain as an irresistible temptation. In 1615, it was banned from Spanish theatres for being ‘lascivious, dishonest, offensive to pious ears’, but the attractions of the chaconne held sway.
From the Ground Up traces its allure from early Spanish chaconnes, through the worlds of Purcell and Piccinini, to Bach’s magisterial example for solo violin. Reanimating the ‘lascivious’, Purcell’s ground basses furnish a harmonic groove for readings from Shakespeare by British actor Samuel West, accompanied by New York rapper Baba Israel.
Release Date: 7th Jun 2019
Catalogue No: SIGCD574
Label: Signum
Length: 55 minutes

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