Whether you call it a passacaglia, chaconne, or ground, the technique of virtuosic writing over a repeated theme in the bass seems to bring out the best in a composer! We'll hear favorites by Buxtehude, Bertali, Falconieri, and more! 

• Andrea Falconieri: Ciaconna. Performed by Capella de la Torre.
• Tarquinio Merula: Ciacona. Performed by Ensemble Badinerie. 
• Maurizio Cazzati: Passacaglio. Performed by Ensemble Badinerie.
• Henry Purcell: Three Parts upon a Ground. Performed by Hesperion XXI.
• Henry Purcell: Mark how readily each pliant string. Performed by Anna Prohaska, soprano & Arcangelo.
• Henry Purcell: Curtain Tune from ‘Timon of Athens’. Performed by Arcangelo. 
• Dieterich Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor. Performed by Harald Vogel.
• Girolamo Frescobaldi: 2 Passacaglias. Performed by Ingrid Matthews, violin & Byron Schenkman, harpsichord. 
• Samuel Capricornus: Ciaconna in D major for violin and viola da gamba. Performed by Ensemble Echo du Danube.
• Giovanni Felice Sances: Lament on the Passacaglia. Performed by Maura Pederzoli, soprano & Sergio Vartolo, harpsichord.
• Robert de Visee: Chaconne des Harlequins de Mr. Lully. Performed by Nigel North, lute.