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 ...

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 ...

Early Music is a stimulating and richly illustrated journal that is unrivalled in its field. Founded in 1973, it remains the journal for anyone interested in early music and how it is being ...

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 ...

To play music in LotRO, you'll need an instrument. Instruments vary in their effectiveness in battle, yet for the music system you only need to know the nine basic types: Clarinet, Harp, Horn, Flute, ...

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 ...

When music demands extended bass range, interesting things happen. In the baroque era, bass range was all the rage in opera, and so new instruments were brought into being, the theorbo and the ...

Radio 3’s weekly series in which a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside. This week, one of the world’s leading lute and theorbo players, Elizabeth Kenny brings old musical ...

You might expect a baroque German theorbo to be a more faithful vehicle for Bach’s solo cello music than a modern viola. But Hopkinson Smith’s approach to the first three suites goes much further than ...

The lute song duo Dulces Exuviae (Sweet Reminders) played the final concert of their first season in Seattle. The principals, soprano Linda Tsatsanis and lutenist John Lenti, have provided the best ...