SAMRAT MAJUMDER
By candlelight, Scottish-Indian guitarist Samrat Majumder brings together Dowland, Bach, and Schubert. Between Elizabethan melancholy and Baroque architecture, his luminous playing reveals the guitar’s quiet depth and humanity.
Programme
JOHN DOWLAND (1563–1626)
Praeludium & Fantasia No. 7 (arr. J. Hinojosa)
Three Songs
– Can She Excuse My Wrongs
– Flow My Tears, Now
– O Now I Needs Must Part
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
Lute Suite No. 2 BWV 997
Prélude, Fugue and Allegro BWV 998
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828)
Der Wanderer an den Mond D.870
Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen D.343
The programme unfolds like a journey through time. Dowland’s dances and songs open the evening in gentle melancholy, their Renaissance grace tinged with farewell. Bach follows with luminous structures — music of balance and devotion, where the guitar becomes a vessel for light. Finally, two of Schubert’s lieder, delicately transcribed, let the instrument breathe like a human voice.
A 2025 Young Classical Artists Trust laureate and one of today’s most poetic young guitarists, Majumder brings rare clarity and intimacy to this setting. In the candlelit Chapelle Protestante, every phrase seems to hover between silence and song.
DOWLAND Praeludium et Fantasia Nᵒ 7 (arr. J. Hinojosa)