Toby Carr
Softest Thunder
Album launch concert
Join Gramophone Award winner and Purbeck Arts Week regular Toby Carr for a luxurious listening experience, and hear the unique sound of the lute, its ‘Softest Thunder'.
‘Toby Carr made the delicate lute harmonies gleam like rain drops on a spider’s web.’ - Rachel Halliburton, The Arts Desk
Purbeck Art Weeks Festival
Sat, 30 May 2026
The Priory Church of Lady St Mary, Wareham
8:30pm
£15 (£2 students, £12 conc)
Full Event Details
This intimate and atmospheric concert brings together music spanning hundreds of years, united by a common sense of soft-edged, delicate but resonant beauty. Lutenist composers John Dowland and Robert Johnson represent the zenith of the English Renaissance, with their 400-year-old dances and fantasies interwoven here with transcriptions of Erik Satie’s dream-like, genre-defying dances and Blue, a new commission by Laura Snowden for this project.
Join Gramophone Award winner and Purbeck Arts Week regular Toby Carr for a luxurious listening experience, and hear the unique sound of the lute, its ‘Softest Thunder'.
‘Toby Carr made the delicate lute harmonies gleam like rain drops on a spider’s web.’ - Rachel Halliburton, The Arts Desk
Venue Details & Map
Location
The Priory Church of Lady St Mary, Wareham
18 Church St, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 4ND