Tabea Debus (recorder) and Alex McCartney (theorbo)

Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire Concert Society

Ode on an earworm

In 1668, Samuel Pepys put into words what millions of others have experienced: the power of music and its mysterious ability to continue playing inside the listener’s mind.

Tabea’s and Alex’s programme includes music by Purcell, Handel, Bach, Freya Waley-Cohen, Corelli and Falconieri.

Debus is a charismatic virtuoso - The Times / XXIV Fantasie per il Flauto CD / 2018
Only very rarely do we get the chance to encounter musicians in full artistic control and bestowed with a technical ability that makes you sit and listen in awe - Early Music Review / XXIV Fantasie per il Flauto / 2018

Alex is ‘A consumate lutenist…’ Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3 InTune
‘With the rich, deep tones of the theorbo, and some rippling and cascading runs, deftly articulated here by McCartney, this is a delightful programme.’ Classical Notes (about Alex’s album Toccata:Touched; theorbo music by Kapsberger).