About this album

Who doesn’t like the ciaccona, ciacona or chaconne – the exuberant dance in which the upper voices fantasise over a bass scheme, imitating and inspiring each other. The ciaconna, which may have come to Spain from South America, quickly spread throughout Europe and even found its way into popular music. Leila Shayegh and her musician friends from La Centifolia play a whole round of chaconnes, some famous, some unknown, by Bertali, Purcell, Schmelzer, Matteis, Corelli or anonymous composers from the famous collection from the “Schrank no.2” in Dresden. The climax and conclusion is the famous “Canon” (with “Gigue”, which is usually neglected) by Johann Pachelbel, played with a liveliness and transparency that is rarely heard in this frequently played piece!

   Reviews

Die Chaconne ist eine der bekanntesten Variationsformen im Barock. Sie hat Komponisten zu den aberwitzigsten Werken inspiriert. Layla Schayegh hat ihr Programm auf der ersten CD mit ihrem Ensemble La Centifolia diesem Genre gewidmet: virtuos und mitreißend.

– Elisabeth Richter, Deutschlandfunk, 29. Januar 2023

[Leila Schayegh's] playing throughout is stylish and dazzling. She achieves what in my experience is a very rare feat: playing fast in the high registers on the violin, baroque or otherwise, and maintaining a rounded sound, never straying into harshness or shrillness. Her five colleagues in La Centifolia […] are equally good."

– David Barker, Music Web International, April 25, 2023