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Paolo Pandolfo and Amélie Chemin perform virtuoso viol duets at the York Early Music Festival.

Devotees have always thought of the viol as the perfect instrument, able to sing as expressively as the human voice and play chords like the Orphic lute. And surely the only thing better than one viol is two viols, especially in the hands of virtuosos Paolo Pandolfo and Amélie Chemin. Together they take us on a trip through time and space, finding connections between the late Elizabethan music of eccentric soldier Tobias Hume and the later improvisatory divisions of Christopher Simpson, through subtle French baroque suites by the mysterious Mr de Ste. Colombe and the ‘devilish’ Forqueray, to reach the classical calm of Berlin-based Christoph Schaffrath, via the unmissable music of J.S. Bach.

Presented by Lucie Skeaping

This programme also includes a round-up of the latest news from the early music world, presented by Mark Seow.