British theorbo virtuoso Matthew Wadsworth is set to perform at the Tallinn feat. Reval Early Music Festival this weekend. Speaking on ETV show "Ringvaade," Wadsworth said he first started playing ...
This giant bass lute can be over 6 feet long, typically has 14 or so strings and is characterised by it’s rich but clear sound, an ideal accompaniment to the human voice Towards the end of the 16th ...
Things got a little crazy this morning on Classical 101. The concert, presented by Early Music in Columbus, will feature a potpourri of mad songs and instrumental selections conveying madness and ...
Most of the period instruments played by members of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra look perfectly familiar to modern audiences. The one likely exception is the theorbo, a 6-foot-long relative of ...
Not being an active member of the YouTube community and new to the MetalSucks team, today was my first time hearing about Rob Scallon. After binge-watching several of his videos I can attest to his ...
While engaged in graduate studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in the cornetto, a Renaissance wind instrument that sounds like the blend of a trumpet and oboe, Nathaniel Cox decided to pick up a ...
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Baroque in Beacon
Richard Kolb has never met anyone in Beacon who owns a theorbo. Ditto for a 10-string Baroque guitar, but there could be a few lute owners, he says. Kolb also plays standard classical guitar, which he ...
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Piffaro presents 'exuberant' Christmas music but with hurdy gurdy, theorbo, bagpipes, and more
NEW YORK — Christmas concerts are God’s gift to early music groups such as Piffaro (Philadelphia’s Renaissance wind band). Audience love taking refuge in holiday exuberance from what we imagine as a ...
Stories of falling head over heels for an instrument are not unusual. What is unusual is love at first sight — or sound — when that instrument is the theorbo. In fact, it was the combination of both ...
Time-travelling indeed. Following on from his superb 2015 solo theorbo work The Miller’s Tale, also written for the lutenist and theorbo player Matthew Wadsworth, the Theorbo Concerto takes its ...
The similarities between baroque music and jazz are obvious enough: the centrality of improvisation, of course; the freedom given to performers who extrapolate from lead sheets or figured bass lines ...
Magnificat soar in Schütz’s Cantiones sacrae, Elizabeth Kenny excels in old and new music for theorbo, and Private Passions continues to delight Among the neglected figures of the musical past, one of ...
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