Biruktawit Tasew's fingers glide over the strings of the begena, producing a deep, hypnotic sound. Along with six fellow ...

One of the country's oldest instruments, the begena was once reserved for the elite - and effectively banned during the ...

Wardruna are something of a modern musical phenomenon. Part Scandinavian folk revival, part prog rock epic and part pagan ritual, their wide-screen performances are a beautiful and mesmerising ...

Resembling a harp or a large lyre, trapezium-shaped and about a metre ... patients "forget their pain and drift into sleep" to the tune of the instrument. "It calms their heart rate, lowers ...

Savall, a celebrated conductor, composer and viol player, is the distinguished elder statesman of early music.

In the small concert hall at Kyiv’s National Museum of Literature, a group of men, most over 40, are tuning their instruments. The banduras—bulbous guitar-like instruments with a harp-like ... others ...