Viola da Gamba Society

The account for the Viola da Gamba Society UK

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

A VdGS zoom, Decoding Marin Marais, by Vittorio Ghielmi was just riveting. He's identified Marais' scheme for his didactic & aesthetic wishes, setting it all into an historical context. In Oct. 1978 Early Music published my study of Ornamentation in French solo bass viol music!

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

'In a Timely Manner', a Viola da Gamba Soc. zoom yesterday, led by Alison Kinder, proved v. popular with all our best viol performers. Ali playing to a v.slow metronome, still arriving correctly at the next barline, was fascinating. Listening well really helps to stay in time!

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

@BaroqueNorth @ContinuoFndn Didn't you get money from the https://t.co/WdDixQuQF1, so an acknowledgement of that support would have been nice.

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

@ContinuoFndn @HHChamberMusicF @cellojohnston The patron listed on the festival website is sadly no longer with us. Please get it changed!

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

AND on November 4th, there'll be a VdGS zoom with the strict Peter Wendland, who was given his first viol aged two, on how to improve string crossing.   He calls it Back to Basics, and asks everyone to have a viol (any size, tuned in 415 hz) to hand to join with his exercises!

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

Tomorrow VdGS members meet at Blackheath. A talk on music manuscripts in the British Library will be replaced by Jo Levine & Esha Neogy leading dialogue & discussion between panel and players on PRACTISING. That's important for a quite different audience, non-musicologists maybe

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

@badgerlyminge I think you're right about Abel as teacher. And it could well have been Johann Christian Bach and Thomas Linley who played with them. It seems he owned two Barak Normans as well as the Jayes.

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

Richard Boothby looks at the Drexel MS during a
VdG Soc. zoom Thursday 18th Sept. 7pm (UK time), a product of the relationship of composer Karl Friedrich Abel with one our greatest portraitists Thomas Gainsborough. Both were brilliant players... a zoom for painters & violists?

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

@westonconcerts @PiattiQuartet So sad: a last concert due to the combined forces of Covid and, what you've politely described as, new financial constraints. Keeping Chamber Music Live is what a new Fund (with grants to venues & promoters) is aiming to do.....

[Jonathan Dunford @stecolombe]

🎶 A musical journey... straight from Paris! 🇫🇷✨
I’m excited to share with you a playlist of pieces recorded on historical French viols, all performed right here in Paris 🎻🏰
👉 Listen here: https://t.co/NwrSrhMGFV

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

'Take your consort playing up a notch' is the next VdGS zoom. Monday July 7 at 7pm, Joanna Levine of Fretwork shares ideas to help you play with greater colour and expression.  She'll talk through exercises aimed at greater control over the bow, adding a few for the left hand.

[Jonathan Dunford @stecolombe]

Check out Bach - 3 Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord by Jonathan Dunford & Pierre Trocellier on Amazon Music https://t.co/NR1K6awrmi #AmazonMusic

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

May 6: Viola da Gamba Soc. triumph. Alison Crum looking at phrases & rhythmic patterns in Gibbon's fantasias was life-enhancing. Her playing of three viols was inspirational for 44 members across the globe. Years of experience shared with verbal and musical precision.

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

They're an interesting and varied group of musicians. Their concert @KLFestival last year centred around the European travels of the famous mid-18th century King's Lynn resident and organist at its Minster, Charles Burney. Their CD, 'Musical Wanderlust' is also a joy.

[Kirckman Concerts @KirckmanCS]

This spring Kirckman artists Apollo’s Cabinet are touring Europe with their programme inspired by the travels of 18th Century musician and music historian Charles Burney. More details here: https://t.co/zZNZFcwSyR

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

It'll be a brilliant VdGS zoom on May 6 at 7pm. Alison Crum celebrates 400 years since Gibbons' death by looking closely at phrases & rhythmic patterns of his consort music. Members playing extracts of fantasias will learn how bowing must enhance the music, as can fingering.

[Andrew Mellor @operalastnight]

The crisis facing musicology degrees is down to their commandeering and misrepresentation.

This used to be the most challenging degree in the humanities: science, art, language, physical technique. It should never be a soft option.

February's Long View https://t.co/GG9L0Ee0mY

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

Not to be missed, given what VgGS listened to this evening.

[Houston Early Music @HouEarlyMusic]

HEM board member Pedro Funes-Whittington is developing the next generation of early music musicians in Houston!

His student viola da gamba ensemble, Viols of the Creek, will be performing on Thursday, May 6th at 6pm CDT at Woodcreek Middle School Amphitheater. 🎻

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

Really interesting zoom hearing 2 gamba consorts, each player making good sound, trained by Pedro Funes Whittington. Competitive Texan life is set aside as consort players have equal voices! @wadejacqui, teacher of young consorts 1998 to 2016 described Pedro as a miracle worker!

[Viola da Gamba Society @gamba_viola]

Next VdGs lecture on 10 Feb at 7pm. Pedro Funes-Whittington presents"Viols Blooming in Texas", featuring students on his pioneering viola da gamba program. Age 12-14 kids performed at the prestigious Boston Early Music Festival in 2017, 19, 21 & 23. Witness talent & dedication!

[City Music Foundation @CityMusicF]

Join violinist @michael_foyle and pianist @MaksimStsura at the newly opened @Bechstein_Hall for some wonderful #Beethoven and R. Strauss on Wednesday 15th January.

Grab your tickets now!
https://t.co/wRqsiApyM3