This beautifully-performed and produced recording is one of a kind…a mesmerising voyage through the history and possibilities of the chaconne…The O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra traverses these diverse styles with admirable skill and flexibility. The ensemble’s delightful performance of 17th-century works are a particular highlight.

Bach’s Chaconne in D Minor is beautifully played by violinist Ticciati. At the end of the disc it is then “remixed” for piano and percussion as a background to a reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 and other readings. Shakespeare bumps up against “beat” poetry. This is a unique presentation, and uniquely appealing in many ways.

Ticciati surrounds himself with instrumentalists so at one with the chaconne repertoire, musicians who bring the genre’s inherent sexiness and sway to every note…Ticciati’s own performance of Bach’s Chaconne, which forms the heart of the album, is something that warms into gloriousness…O/Modernt improvise music that flows between the performers’ bodies as if it were the oxygen that they share.