Some valuable things are chucked out on the road of progress. Although they faded from general use in the Baroque, the once-popular viola da gamba and always-obscure viola d'amore make sounds that ...
Viola da gamba players are a special breed — a tiny subset in the already small world of early classical music. They rarely meet their own kind, but once a year they come together for a week in July ...
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Music was an important part of any aristocratic household in the 17th and 18th centuries, where the viola da gamba reigned supreme as a marker of fine musical sensibilities. The bass member of the ...
Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Cembalo Obbligato. Vittorio Ghielmi, Lorenzo Ghielmi. Ars Musici. $16.99. "Felix Austria": Works for Viola da Gamba Consort. Klaus Mertens, Simone Eckert.
Last year around this time, Ronn McFarlane and Carolyn Surrick, who are usually quite busy with their early music ensembles, had the time and space to finally make music together. That special musical ...
Who knew a metal classic could sound so good on an old Renaissance string instrument? Metallica are big classical music fans – they recorded their album S&M with the San Francisco Symphony in 1999, ...
A master of the viola da gamba and other stringed instruments, she was a central part of the early-music scene. By Neil Genzlinger Judith Davidoff, who mastered an assortment of stringed instruments ...
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The viola da gamba, Jordi Savall said, “started a long sleep” around 1800, when the instrument fell out of widespread favor. Savall is one of the world’s leading gamba players, and on Sunday afternoon ...
After a United Airlines flight during which his viola da gamba was badly damaged, the owner is calling on airlines to make their instrument policies more consistent. International early music ...
Viola da gamba players are a special breed — a tiny subset in the already small world of early classical music. They rarely meet their own kind, but once a year they come together for a week in July ...
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