It features creative harmonisations of the underlying chorale and meandering Buxtehude-style flights of fancy that remind one of the following remonstrance against Bach’s novel approach to liturgical music as a young and inventive organist.
This sort of music is not common fare. Every moment in each sonata and partita was given its opportunity to sing. In the parts one can glimpse the whole, as though in a fractal. Hence the title – A Universe of One.
Easton provides an opportunity for those who may have missed this initial performance to experience one of Bach’s most iconic compositions by one of Australia’s finest practitioners. Get there if you can.
And it has been a gift, too, to her audience to have been able to share her survey of these “wondrous” works which express the entirety of the human condition.
Something extraordinary happened in Sydney this weekend. Under the rough sandstone blocks of a small church in Paddington, virtuoso violinist Madeleine Easton conquered one of the behemoths of the solo violin repertoire.
