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Sarah Mead discovered her sound at a young age through a unique instrument — the viola da gamba. Familiarly known as the ‘viol’ with a similar appearance to a cello, this instrument has six strings, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The owner of a 17th-century instrument was left devastated after a 2018 an Alitalia flight, but we're delighted to report that there's been a happy ending. In January 2018, musician Myrna Herzog ...

The viola da gamba, Jordi Savall said, “started a long sleep” around 1800, when the instrument fell out of widespread favor. Savall is one of the world’s leading gamba players, and on Sunday afternoon ...

The viola da gamba has been destroyed (Picture: Myrna Herzog) Fans of centuries-old musical instruments should look away now as the following sight is not suitable for those of a nervous disposition.

A master of the viola da gamba and other stringed instruments, she was a central part of the early-music scene. By Neil Genzlinger Judith Davidoff, who mastered an assortment of stringed instruments ...