{"id":5707,"date":"2016-12-16T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T22:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2016-12-16T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T22:46:12","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-ben-verdery-plays-bachs-magnificent-chaconne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-ben-verdery-plays-bachs-magnificent-chaconne\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Ben Verdery Plays Bach&#8217;s Magnificent  &#8216;Chaconne&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Chaconne<\/em> from J.S. Bach&#8217;s <em>Partita for Solo Violin in D Minor BWV 1004<\/em> has, through the years, become one of the most popular works of the entire classical guitar canon. Segovia conquered it; John Williams, Julian Bream, Angel Romero and many others have performed and recorded it. It&#8217;s an inspiring and deeply moving work that is also a tremendous challenge for any guitarist. To play this sprawling yet intricate piece <em>well<\/em> requires a very high level of technique and passion. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjaminverdery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Verdery<\/a>\u2014chair of Yale University&#8217;s superb Guitar Department, a composer of considerable renown, champion of other modern composers, innovative arranger, and all-around good guy\u2014is brimming with both of those qualities. And they are very much in evidence on this wonderful <em>Chaconne<\/em>, which seems all the more magnificent in this video shot on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Maui, where Verdery teaches a guitar course every summer and calls a second home. Stunning!<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you get the chance, go to Ben&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjaminverdery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> and read his extensive and very thoughtful notes on his long relationship with the <em>Chaconne<\/em>, and how the threat of planetary global warming helped inspire this particular rendition, which was recorded and then shot this past summer. (A previous Verdery <em>Chaconne<\/em> appeared on his 2006 CD, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hXIIAR\" target=\"_blank\">Branches<\/a>, which also included other arrangements of Bach, Strauss, Mozart, and Jimi Hendrix.) \u00a0<em>\u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chaconne from J.S. Bach&#8217;s Partita for Solo Violin in D Minor BWV 1004 has, through the years, become one of the most popular works of the entire classical guitar canon. Segovia conquered it; John Williams, Julian Bream, Angel Romero and many others have performed and recorded it. It&#8217;s an inspiring and deeply moving work that is also a tremendous challenge for any guitarist. To play this sprawling yet intricate piece well requires a very high level of technique and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BenVerdery1c_600.jpg?fit=500%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}