Event Durham

In Echo

Gawain Glenton, cornett & director

Oliver Webber, violin

Rachel Byrt, viola

Emily White, sackbut

William Hunt, viol

Silas Wollston, organ

The sea-faring nations of Northern Europe have always been connected, never more so than during the heyday of the Hanseatic League, that great trading community connecting London to Tallinn via Lübeck, Hamburg, and the ports of Holland, Denmark and Sweden in a network that cemented ties by trade in everything from iron, wool, books, salt and soldiers, to music and ideas - all dependent on the North and Baltic seas.

This fascinating programme explores the instrumental music that passed between these ports and countries in the 16^th and 17^th centuries, from dances to sonatas, including Pavans inspired by John Dowland’s famous Lachrimae to elaborate music by major figures such as the German/Danish organist Dietrich Buxtehude, a precursor of Bach.

In the virtuosic hands of Gawain Glenton’s In Echo, these rarely-heard gems will sparkle as brightly as they did in centuries past.