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The quiet adventure in the warm depths of Abzû game scored by Austin Wintory
American composer Austin Wintory made history after becoming the creator of the first-ever Grammy-nominated videogame...
Electric Guitar
Monnette Sudler: the first lady of jazz guitar
Grammy-nominated jazz guitarist Monnette Sudler is known as the “First Lady of Jazz Guitar,” among other titles. Her...
SYNTHESIZER
Classical modernity in Anna Meredith's underwater reality
The Scottish composer Anna Meredith has already worked with the BBC and countless orchestras and chamber ensembles...
HANG
Electronic jazz achieves ambiance with exotic Swiss-made drum
The Portico Quartet is a contemporary jazz and ethnic fusion ensemble from South London. The band is known for their use...
FILM
Full-method approach to the score for Shakespeare's play
The classic Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice had seen many adaptations, one of them a 2004 venture for the big...
Violin
Sweet little waltz from a traveling Swedish fiddler
Early Swedish music was primarily characterized by ballads and kulning, songs typically sung by women for the purpose of...
VIOLA
Indecent Ciaconne dance came from the New World and swept Europe off its feet
Chaconne or Ciaconne is a fiery dance popularized in Spain in 17th century which later gave birth to a new musical form...
Classical Guitar
Swiss-made prelude gifted to Segovia was never played by him
Andrés Segovia had one of the longest and most distinguished careers in the history of Western music. In his lifetime,...
FIDDLE
The jig dance tradition: five centuries old and still counting
Jig is a folk dance that became popular in Scotland and northern England in the 16th century and in Ireland in the 18th...
SONGWRITER
Four continents come together for Manu Chao's Clandestino
In Latin America and Europe, this guy is virtually an icon who seems to have taken the role of Bob Marley. Manu Chao is...
LUTE
Atmospheric collaboration of medieval and modern underground on Only Lovers Left Alive
For his post-modern tale of vampires trying to find purpose in their immortal lives, Jim Jarmusch employs his own group...
HARDANGER FIDDLE
You can't stay still when you hear the reel
The Shetland islands, located between Norway and Scotland, has always had their folk music at the crossroads of two...
ORCHESTRA
Defining Gershwin rhapsody was conceived on a train trip
Rhapsody in Blue is one of the most performed of all American concert pieces, and its opening clarinet glissando is the...
ORCHESTRA
Beethoven was inspired by Goethe’s rhythmic poetry
From 1809 to 1810, Beethoven composed the overture to Goethe’s play Egmont, depicting the life of the count of Egmont, a...
Cello
The surviving pearl of Mademoiselle Paradis, contemporary of Mozart
Maria Theresia von Paradis was a contemporary of Mozart and Haydn. She achieved significant glory as both a composer and...
FLUTE
Bourrée: French folk dance from the Bach suite inspired prog-rock flute and the work of Sir Paul McCartney
Bourrée is a French folk dance typically danced with quick, skipping steps. The dancers sometimes wear wooden clogs to...
ORCHESTRA
Reverie: cello reimagining of Claude Debussy by Julian Lloyd Webber
Reverie is one of the first works written by Debussy for piano. Even at this early stage of his career, with the style...
PIANO
Chick Corea's Spanish pulse in the masterful jazz standard
The son of a trumpeter, the genius pianist Chick Corea is referenced as one of the lead specialists in the fusion of...
SAENGHWANG
Modern jazz meets traditional Korean music in Park Jiha's Communion
Both somehow minimalist and carrying the richness of jazz improvisation, Park Jiha's debut album Communion borders on...
FESTIVAL
The rise of the Crimson King
The Stones in the Park generally refers to a free outdoor festival held in Hyde Park on 5 July 1969 that was headlined...
TRUMPET
Chet Baker: the divine voice of the West Coast jazz
Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was born in 1929 in Yale, Oklahoma. The son of musically inclined parents, he sang in...
Violin
Wild harmony of the northern fjords by Nils Økland and Hardanger fiddle
Nils Økland is an innovative violinist and composer from Norway, instantly recognizable for his extensive use of the...
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The Unthanks: keeping with the modern spirit of the English folk song
The Unthanks is an English group known for their eclectic approach in combining traditional Northumbrian folk with other...
HARPSICHORD
Isabella Leonarda: convent star of the Baroque era
Isabella Leonarda’s works include examples of nearly every sacred genre: motets and sacred concertos for one to four...
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Ali Akbar Khan: the true guru of Indian classical harmony
The first key point of Indian classical music is its structure. Unlike the Western canons, it is structured horizontally...
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