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.

Some valuable things are chucked out on the road of progress. Although they faded from general use in the Baroque, the once-popular viola da gamba and always-obscure viola d'amore make sounds that ...

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 88th annual Bach Festival comes to a close this weekend with the chance for Central Florida music fans to experience two instruments rarely heard these days. The harpsichord had its heyday in ...

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, ...

Kitty Burns Florey, author of, The Music Of Eight: Learning In Old Age, at her home in Amherst. The Music Of Eight: Learning In Old Age, Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential ...

Leonardo da Vinci invented numerous devices that he never built, including the viola organista -- a machine-like instrument that combines a harpsichord, an organ and a viola da gamba. This ...

Last November, the New York Times Magazine published a feature entitled “A Brief History of Failure,” which listed, among various devices and technologies that have fallen by the wayside, the viola da ...