Steve Schwartz:

[In the Bach D Minor Suite]
>one hears a concern for inter-movement correspondences, most
>clearly in the similarities between the Sarabande movement and the
>Chaconne.  Steinhardt doesn't want to treat the suite's capstone as an
>encore piece, but as something Bach prepares us for in the earlier
>dances.

In the notes of her very satisfying recording of this suite, Hilary
Hahn wrote of a moment some years into her recital career: "I...remember
the feeling of revelation...  when in the middle of playing the D Minor
Partita I suddenly heard for the first time exactly what was going on
harmonically in the Ciaconna [sic]: it was one of the great insights of
my life."

Jim Tobin

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