classical guitar at St. Pauls Without The Walls

Monday 11th November 2019
St. Pauls Without The Walls, Canterbury

Incredible playing from Michael Butten: Dowland, Gerhard, Rodrigo, Bach (a violin sonata MB arranged for guitar), Legnani, Britten and Albeniz. It was the Dowland that drew me to the event (as well as a chance to spend some time in the best-named church in England!), but the fugue movement of the Bach was a real revelation, and Britten's Downland-inspired piece was entirely new to me. He hadn't prepared an encore, so played Downland's "Frog Galliard" a second time (his favourite, and one of mine). Thanks to the good people of the Canterbury Guitar Society for putting this on.