At 8:30 on a frigid Friday evening here, about 60 people, some holding musical instruments, have crowded expectantly into a small hotel meeting room. It's the first night of the Amherst Early Music ...
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 ...
Sarah Mead discovered her sound at a young age through a unique instrument — the viola da gamba. Familiarly known as the ‘viol’ with a similar appearance to a cello, this instrument has six strings, ...
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.
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 ...
Leonardo da Vinci invented numerous devices that he never built, including the viola organista -- a machine-like instrument that combines a harpsichord, an organ and a viola da gamba. This ...
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, ...
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.
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