Richard Pennycuick wrote:

>One I've only recently found is the last movement of Britten's 2nd string
>quartet, which, in the Purcellian way, he calls a chacony.

I wonder whether we could class the "Dirge" from Britten's Serenade for
Tenor, Horn, and Strings a Chaconne? And when is somebody going to mention
the most sublime chaconne ever written: "When I am laid to earth," from
"Dido and Aeneas"?

Jonathan