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.