Viola de gamba recital

Viola da gamba player Sarah Small is on a mission to demonstrate how touring can be done differently. 

Disillusioned by the lack of support for sustainable touring within the arts, along with concerns about the impact and cost of audience travel from rural areas to venues in cities, she’s taking matters into her own hands and cycling from venue to venue to share her programme ‘Good Again?’ with audiences far and wide. 

Centred around the title work ‘Good Againe’ by Tobias Hume, this programme for solo viola da gamba features music expressing the feelings of grief, contemplation, and hope felt by many of us during these unstable times, along with tales from the road that remind us of the beauty in slow travel.

The programme will include Marais’ ‘Les Voix Humaines’, Caix D’Hervelois’ ‘Plainte’, selected movements from Bach’s Cello Suites, Hume’s ‘Love’s Farewell’ and ‘The Spirit of Gambo’.

Sarah will also play a newly commissioned piece by composer Lillie Harris, pondering our wish to return to what was before and whether the future can, in actual fact, be brighter.

More information can be found here.