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| Marc Destrubé |
Concert at St. Anselm's Tomorrow June 21 at 1 PM
Our Vancouver has many gems that are mostly hidden to us if we depend on media now that journalism is as dead as Béla Bartók and Heinrich Ignaz Frans van Biber.
Some of us are lucky to be in email lists that inform us of these gems.
It was around 1991 that I first met violinist Marc Destrubé. Besides being a stellar performer he has that charm to be able to educate and inspire us to listen to music of all genres.
Few might know that Destrubé is the leader of the Axelrod Quartet that is based in the Washington DC’s Smithsonian. They play on a beautiful set of Stradivarius instruments. Best of all Destrubé lives in BC.
Destrubé not only plays baroque and early baroque music but his local group the Microcosmos Quartet plays much more modern music, some if it never played before in Vancouver. Some of these concerts are in intimate house locations.
Listening to Béla Bartók in Intimate Surroundings
In the last two years Destrubé played Bach’s magnum opus his Sonatas & Partitas for Solo BWV 1001-1006 at St. Anselms Anglican Church close to UBC.
Because I am 82 I calculate that statistically my being at those performances will not be repeated in my lifetime.
Now here is the good news. Tomorrow at St. Anselm’s at 1pm Destrubé will be playing on his 17th century Italian violin (1685), in baroque set-up with a baroque style made by Michelle Speller of Vancouver in the following program:
Program:
Johann Joseph Vilsmayr (1663 - 1722)
Partita No. 1 in A Major, from Artificiosus Concentus pro Camera (Salzburg, 1715)
Heinrich Ignaz Frans van Biber (1644-1704)
Passacaglia in g minor, from the ‘Rosary Sonatas’ (Salzburg, 1676)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Partita No. 1 in b minor for violin without bass, BWV 1002 (Köthen, 1620)
Presented in co-operation with Early Music Vancouver, with the generous support of the Drance family.
Consider that the price for admission $30 includes food and non-alcholic drink.
