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 ...

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 ...

Not being an active member of the YouTube community and new to the MetalSucks team, today was my first time hearing about Rob Scallon. After binge-watching several of his videos I can attest to his ...

The similarities between baroque music and jazz are obvious enough: the centrality of improvisation, of course; the freedom given to performers who extrapolate from lead sheets or figured bass lines ...

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 ...

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 ...

Les Voisins are performing in Whanganui next month. Photo / Supplied It is not often that we get to see and hear a theorbo — a Renaissance-era lute-like instrument but with a longer neck, and the ...

You might think building a theorbo or a rebec is a dying art. Yet there is a demand for these weird and wonderful objects Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...

If you're anything like us, you'll be well aware of Rob Scallon and his talent for turning almost anything into heavy metal. In his most recent video, Rob turns his metallic fingers to the theorbo for ...