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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like a lot of musicians, Charles Weaver started with the guitar and rock ’n’ roll. From there, he moved on to classical guitar. And then he saw and heard the theorbo, and everything changed. “I went ...

The original performance of the Christmas oratorio, “I Pastori di Betlemme” or “Shepherds of Bethlehem” likely took place Dec. 24, 1629 at the Apostolic Palace in Rome. On Dec. 18, the oratorio will ...

Baroque era composers called the theorbo “the most perfect instrument ever invented to accompany a singer,” said Joel Spears, a member of Black Tulip, an early music ensemble. Spears will play the ...

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 ...