The first performance took place on 11th July 2018 as part of the Third Altamira Hong Kong Guitar Symposium. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra toured and recorded the piece in the second half of July. The first English performance took place at the North York Moors Chamber Music Festival on 18th August. The version for theorbo and string quartet was first performed at the Fishguard Festival in July 2019 by Matthew Wadsworth and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet. Recorded on Landscape and Memory, Deux-Elles (DXL 1202© 2024)

Published by Doberman-Yppan © 2020.
Full Score ISBN: 978-2-89796-090-2
Solo Theorbo Part ISBN: 978-2-89796-089-6
Theorbo and string quartet ISBN: 978-2-89796-091-9

“The world’s first concerto for theorbo is unashamedly clever. Listen without the contextual notes and 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. Between the Scottish Chamber orchestra’s tightly-executed themes that combine a whiff of Elgar and Shostakovich with bach and Blues, Wadsworth shimmers, jostles, and dances – holding his own in this new territory…”

Hannah French – BBC Music Magazine – May 2019