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 ...

THE Ebor Singers will be joined by guest lutenist Matthew Wadsworth for Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 at their St Cecilia Gala concert at the NCEM, York, on November 25. Bridging Renaissance ...

Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, is also patron saint of the blind: nice confirmation that blindness and music have always gone comfortably hand in hand. As the pianist Bernard D'Ascoli, ...

THE UK premiere of Stephen Goss's Theorbo Concerto, given by Matthew Wadsworth and the SCO Strings, also happened to be the first concerto ever written for this 17th century lute-like instrument.

Some great polyphonic choral music arose from the religious flux of the late- 16th Century and Stile Antico's 12 voices expressed this turmoil with perfect musicality and grace. I had never realised ...

Music does not come in much smaller packages than the early-17th-century lute-song. It is more attuned to the boudoir than the concert hall. But in this delightful recital the soprano Carolyn Sampson ...

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