Hopkinson Smith has been called a poet of the lute, but today he brings his vihuela (vee-WHAY-lah) into the PT studio to play music by 16th-century Spanish composer Luis Milan (loo-EESS mee-LAHN). The ...

The sweeping emotional reach of Johann Sebastian Bach's Suites, BWV 1007—1012) cannot be underestimated. Heard performed incandescently on two different instruments helps also. Throw in the Sonatas & ...

And there’s no one better to hear play it than Hopkinson Smith, for decades now the greatest exponent of this instrument and repertoire. The Elizabethan era was a golden age for English music, which ...

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In his only New York appearance of the season, Hopkinson Smith performs his own transcriptions of JS, Bach, Suites 1-3, BWV 1007-1009.Hopkinson Smith Performs Bach After concentrating in Musicology at ...

From his visit to NPR in 2002, early-music string virtuoso Hopkinson Smith performs music first published in 16th-Century France for solo lute. He also talks with NPR's Fred Child about the instrument ...

You might expect a baroque German theorbo to be a more faithful vehicle for Bach’s solo cello music than a modern viola. But Hopkinson Smith’s approach to the first three suites goes much further than ...

If anything, ‘late style’ is more about a renewed sense of freedom, of expanded possibilities, of a more capacious creativity, than diminishing powers. But with his latest release veteran lutenist ...

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