Duncan Honeybourne will give a recital on a virginals, a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. The instrument is renowned for its rich sound and was popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. Duncan’s instrument was made in Suffolk in 1948 by renowned builder Alec Hodsdon, whose wife was a pioneering virginals soloist and an important figure in the revival of the instrument. Duncan will play music by Bach, William Byrd and other composers whose music would have originally have been heard on an instrument like this. He will also play Gordon Jacob’s Suite for the Virginal, written for Margaret Hodsdon and premiered by her on the BBC in the 1950s on an instrument exactly like Duncan’s.