Tobias Hume and Georg Philipp Telemann can truly be considered extremes in the viola da gamba world. They did share a passion for this extraordinary instrument, but other than that their lives could not have been more different. Hume: the maverick, army captain, selfmade man and not at all esteemed by his renowned colleagues like John Dowland. And Telemann, a real celebrity avant la lettre, whose star even eclipsed that of Johann Sebastian Bach at the time. This programme puts them side to side, united in what bound them: the love for the sound of the viola da gamba. With music from the new album A pritty thing and some newly discovered fantasies by Telemann