The lute is the most intimately expressive of musical instruments. A descendant of the lyre with which Orpheus mythically tamed the wild beasts, the lute returned to Europe more than a millennium ago ...

Upon hearing this terrific release for the first time, I remarked to a friend that it could easily have been titled ‘Jakobean Lute Music’. Because, apart from its being an excellent survey of ...

When Joseph Mayes heard the lute, it was love at first note. The Collingswood resident was studying with guitar master Andrés Segovia in Spain in 1968 when the music coming from the pear-shaped ...

The Dutch ex-punk and Jim Jarmusch bandmate talks about his passion to free up a hidebound repertoire and make its strings ‘a real pop instrument’ Nobody can accuse Jozef Van Wissem of doing things by ...

Talk about having a penchant for "the oldies." When talking about old music, many people refer to the 1950s, '60s and '70s. But when Lakeside resident and lute player Edward Martin talks about old ...

It could be argued that he, even more than Andrés Segovia, established the guitar’s credibility as a serious solo instrument. By Allan Kozinn Julian Bream, the English musician who pushed the guitar ...

This Continuum program presents early music performed on four different instruments from the medieval and Renaissance periods. They are two string instruments and two wind instruments; the viola ...

Sonata No. 39 Silvius Leopold Weiss, Composer Jakob Lindberg, Lute Tombeau sur la mort de M. Comte de Logy Jakob Lindberg, Lute Silvius Leopold Weiss, Composer Sonata No. 50 Silvius Leopold Weiss, ...