Wigmore Lunchtime Concert Series | Samrat Majumder

Programme

John Dowland: Three Fancies - A Fancy, Forlorn Hope Fancy, Fantasia No. 7

Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite in E minor BWV996

Arthur Keegan: YCAT Composer Fellow commission 

Various/Anon: Scottish Lute Manuscripts 

John Dowland: Three Songs - The Earl of Essex, His Gaillard, Lachrimae Pavan, The Frog Gaillard

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Guitarist Samrat Majumder continues the YCAT Wigmore Lunchtime Series for the 2026-27 season with a programme of works including Dowland, J.S Bach and a special commission from our YCAT Composer Fellow, Arthur Keegan. 

This programme is a celebration of John Dowland and Johann Sebastian Bach’s legacy for the lute which the guitar is very fortunate to have inherited. Dowland and Bach were deeply inspired by the sensibilities of their time and their music offers a soundscape that retains the plucked nature of the lute whilst presenting these sensibilities with a different palette of colours unique to the guitar.