lute recital and album launch
The Priory Church of Lady St Mary, 18 Church St, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 4ND
20:30 - 21:30
£15 (£2 students, £12 conc)
Organiser: Purbeck Art Weeks Festival / hannah@purbeckartweeks.co.uk
This intimate and atmospheric concert brings together music spanning hundreds of years, united by a common sense of soft-edged, delicate but resonant beauty.
Lutenist composers John Dowland and Robert Johnson represent the zenith of the English renaissance, with their 400-year-old dances and fantasies interwoven here with transcriptions of Erik Satie’s dream-like, genre-defying dances, and Blue, a new commission by Laura Snowden for this project.
Join Gramophone Award winner and PAW regular Toby Carr for a luxurious listening experience, and hear the unique sound of the lute, its ‘Softest Thunder.’
‘Toby Carr made the delicate lute harmonies gleam like rain drops on a spider’s web.’
Rachel Halliburton, The Arts Desk