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Lucie Skeaping meets the gamba player Hille Perl, theorbo player Lee Santana and harpsichordist Patrick Ayrton for highlights from a concert of "Intimate Bach" from the 2011 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music.

It is widely believed that JS Bach composed six sonatas for the viola da gamba, although only three of them still exist. Bach often recycled his work so that the same music appears arranged for different instruments. Hille Perl wondered whether the three "missing" gamba sonatas might be found elsewhere in Bach's output, as arrangements. This set her on a quest to discover potential "new" music for gamba by Bach, and in this concert from St John's Smith Square in London, we hear official music for gamba, alongside other items by JS Bach, and the opportunity to hear what could be a restoration of sonatas for viola da gamba by Bach.