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 ...

The dry viol tones float like gondolas over the tinkling harpsichord, and yet are suitably dark and rich in the tomb-like Concerto funebre. Savall leads with solemnity through his curling lines. The ...

In the final pages of Charles Burney’s massive four-volume General History of Music published between 1776 and 1789 and the first of its kind written in English, there appears an elegy for an ...

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.

The San Francisco Early Music Society presents the Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort, a quartet of Japanese women who play the viola da gamba, a 16th and 17th century European stringed instrument. There will ...

The gamba or viola de gamba is one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments that emerged originally in 15th century Spain and was popular during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

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Sarah Small cycled all around the UK with a 4ft viola da gamba on the back of her bike A musician has completed a 10-week cycling tour of Great Britain with her beloved viola de gamba strapped to the ...

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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 ...