Composer: Stephen Goss
Performer: Matthew Wadsworth
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor:
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deux-Elles
Catalogue: DXL1182
Release: 2019
Size: 326 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Theorbo Concerto
01. I. Prelude
02. Interlude 1
03. II. Scherzo
04. Interlude 2
05. III. Passacaglia
06. Interlude 3
07. IV. Finale
The world’s ‘first concerto for theorbo’ is unashamedly clever…you experience a sensory whirlwind in which the theorbo is catapulted into the present, reinventing itself with a range of extended techniques and, under Matthew Wadsworth’s deft fingers, soloistic effects it never knew it was capable of…Wadsworth shimmers, jostles, and dances – holding his own in this new territory.
Here is the giraffe-like time-travelling theorbo, in the beautiful Prelude to Stephen Goss’s hauntingly variegated concerto, startled to find itself in the midst of a modern string orchestra…As always, Wadsworth finds the greatest expressive potential in the smallest element without losing sight of the whole.