Wesley Lunchtime Series
On Wednesday 22nd May 2024 from 12.40 to 1.20pm, the Wesley Lunchtime concert series welcomes back the dynamic Violinist/Violist and Viola d’amore player, John Ma, in a program that demonstrates the beautiful qualities of his main Baroque violin – an English violin made by Richard Duke in London around 1770.
In Early Music, we often think of music more as "speech" and we try to emulate the forms of spoken rhetoric. Hence “the Duke speaks”.
WHERE: Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, ACT
WHEN: 22nd May 2024, 1230pm.
Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/COLBI
Geminani, Prelude for solo violin
Vilsmayr, 6th Partia
Roman, Assaggio in g minor (BeRi 320)
Telemann, Fantasia E flat
Herschel, Caprices #1, #13, and #2
Biber, Passacaglia "The Guardian Angel"
"Ma played a solo concert featuring his baroque violin and it was a revelation. I'd heard of the importance of the bow and I know it, of course, but the way he made it speak spoke wonders."
"In that bow was such expression, delicacy, rhythm and note groupings, volume and dynamics."
"I'd heard the essence of this argument before but never witnessed it like this."
"...what I heard from that bow was the revelation of the day. Now I understand."
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Writer: Eric Pozza; Canberra Jazz Blog (23rd May 2024)
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