Sarah Small – Viola da gamba
Kim Porter – alto and composer
Augustin Cornwall-Irving – lute

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 work ‘Good Againe’ by Tobias Hume, the programmes feature 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.

For this performance, Sarah has commissioned a new piece for viol and voice ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ written by Durham-based composer and alto Kim Porter.

Programme

Have You Seen the Bright Lily Grow?, Robert Johnson
Music for a While, Henry Purcell
Time Stands Still, John Dowland
Fairest Isle, Henry Purcell
Les Voix Humaines, Marin Marais
Une Jeune Fillette, Anon.
Lachrimae Pavaen / Flow my Tears, Johann Schop / John Dowland
Good Again?, Lillie Harris**
Nothing Gold Can Stay, Kim Porter (premiere performance)*
Fantasie en Rondeau / The Oak, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Good Againe, Tobias Hume
Never Weather-Beaten Sail, Thomas Campion
An Evening Hymn, Henry Purcell)

*commissioned with support from the Vaughan Williams Foundation
**commissioned with support from the Francis Routh Trust

The concert will last approximately 70 minutes without an interval.

Tickets on the door: suggested price £15 or pay what you can