RESOUNDING ECHOES: From August 2022, Robert McCarney's regular series features little-known twentieth century classical composers.
ARTICLES BEING VIEWED NOW:
- Shocking and Gruesome - Ron Bierman reviews Richard Strauss' opera 'Salome'
- April 2025 Newsletter - 'Big Music', our April 2025 PDF newsletter, has just been published
- A Worthy Captain - Peter King marks BBC presenter Petroc Trelawny's move from dawn to twilight
- Just Shut Up and Play? - High profile musicians cancel tours of the USA
- Spotlight. Absolutely Stunning - Geoff Pearce listens to Lea Birringer's Sibelius, Szymanowski and Järnefelt
The archlute is a large bass lute which has extra strings to produce a deep sound for basso continuo parts. Originally developed in about 1600, it's a compromise between a Renaissance tenor lute and the unwieldy theorbo.
CD Spotlight. Unearthing Lost Cornerstones - John Dante Prevedini listens to music by seventeenth century composer Balthasar Erben. '... the disk itself becomes a curatorial introduction to the composer's entire life and work. The Coviello label evidently understands the weight of this responsibility very well ...'
CD Spotlight. Handel and the Roman Baroque School - Giuseppe Pennisi listens to Lorenzo Tozzi's Romabarocca Ensemble. '... a precious CD from which to learn little known aspects of baroque music ...'