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 ...
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 ...
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 ...