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Jennifer Koh and Reiko Uchida anchor SoFlo concerts with Bach / Palm Beach Daily News

The Chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor is arguably the greatest piece of music for solo violin ever composed. No less an authority than Johannes Brahms declared that with only the violin, "the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and the most powerful feelings." Violinist Jennifer Koh has her own thoughts on the partita's final movement. "For me, the Chaconne has always been this struggle to reach some kind of transcendence beyond our physical selves."

The partita anchors two concerts Koh will play with pianist Reiko Uchida on Monday at the Boca Raton Museum of Art and Tuesday at The Breakers for the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach. The programs, which differ for each venue, are a spinoff of her Bach and Beyond project, which traces the connections between Bach's six partitas and sonatas and subsequent solo violin works. Koh brought it into the present with commissions of new work.

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