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  • Shakuntala Patralekhan by Raja Ravi Varma

    The many attempts of Romantic composers to adapt Shakuntala love story from Mahabharata epic

    The love story of Shakuntala is first mentioned in the oldest Sanskrit epic of the Mahābhārata which could be traced...
  • Ayrs For the Violin by Nicola Matteis

    A spice of Italy, delivered to London by Nicola Matteis, edged out the French dance fashion from violin music

    One of the first pieces of evidence of Italian invasion during the Baroque period in England is Ayrs for the Violin—the...
  • Isao Tomita

    The analog synthesizers of Isao Tomita programming fresh sound for all-time classics

    Japanese composer Isao Tomita was one of the first to explore analog synthesizers in search for new sounds that would...
  • Morphine band

    The low-end sound of Morphine trio cut short by Mark Sandman's tragic death while on a stage

    Twenty years have passed since Mark Sandman’s tragic passing of a heart attack during a 1999 live performance with the...
  • Summer Evening by Childe Hassam

    Gershwin's Summertime: the most recorded song draws inspiration from Ukrainian lullaby and African American spiritual

    Written by the American composer George Gershwin in 1934, Summertime aria is now the most recorded song in the history...
  • Giulio Regondi

    Giulio Regondi, the guitar prodigy behind early Romantic repertoire, was conned by false parent

    Giulio Regondi was one of the most virtuosic guitarists of the early Romantic period who began earning flattering...
  • Sundaram Balachander

    Sundaram Balachander: the veena musician and filmmaker who introduced Carnatic culture to the world

    The veena is the oldest string instrument of the Indian subcontinent, first mentioned in the Rigveda dating back to 1500...
  • British Birds by Charles Collins

    Why birds sing their songs: great maestros proving the musicality of nightingale, cuckoo, yellowhammer

    It is no coincidence that the sounds emitted by birds are known in many languages as "songs", rather than simple animal...
  • Tinariwen's Aman Iman CD cover

    Tinariwen: 40 years of nomadic desert music driven by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib's guitar

    Formed by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib in the late 1970s, the African band Tinariwen always had a clear mission to preserve the...
  • Music for Yoga Meditation and Other Joys by Ronald Walotsky

    1960s clarinet & sitar duo pioneered an ambient genre with the album for spiritual practices

    Even though the term ambient as a music genre was coined by Brian Eno only in the 1970s, musical experiments of this...
  • Charley Patton's Down The Dirt Road Blues LP

    Charley Patton's guitar tricks bridged the genre gap between Delta blues and rock'n'roll

    Charley Patton played a crucial role in developing the early blues movement in the Delta region of northwestern...
  • Michio Miyagi and Renée Chemet

    Michio Miyagi & Renée Chemet: near century-old collaboration of koto and violin linking Japanese traditions with Western classic

    In the first half of the 20th century, many Asian composers sought a way to represent their cultures on the global scene...
  • Cocteau Twins' Four Calendar Cafe LP

    Emotion over meaning: the enigmatic lyrics of Cocteau Twins in the languages of glossolalia

    Having first appeared in religious practices, the term glossolalia referred to the ability of a believer to...
  • The City of Paris by Robert Delaunay

    Gymnopédies: the ambient genre predicted by piano gems of late Romanticism

    The term ambient music was introduced in the 1970s by the famous English experimenter Brian Eno who used newly invented...
  • The vihuela by Marcos Kaiser

    The first known collection for the vihuela inspired early guitar repertoire

    It is fair to call the guitar one of the leading world instruments in terms of popular demand which is only slightly...
  • Budhaditya Mukherjee by James Morgan

    The sitar virtuoso who introduced Indian classic to the British parliament

    Budhaditya Mukherjee is one of the brightest virtuosos who to this day refines the rich legacy of Hindustani classics....
  • Supporters of African National Congress in Johannesburg

    5 African states adopted the liberation song by Enoch Sontonga as the national anthem

    Nkosi Sikelel 'iAfrika has been the most frequently sung tune throughout the African continent for over a hundred years...
  • Ode on Shanglin Park by Qiu Ying

    Traditions of 3 countries woven into the music of neglected Asian composer Chiang Wen-Yeh

    The life path of the prominent Asian composer Chiang Wen-Yeh is closely connected to the three countries—Taiwan, Japan,...
  • Bartolomeo Cristofori's early piano

    Lodovico Giustini wrote the first ever piano sonatas for the instrument invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori

    One of the main disadvantages of the harpsichord is its constant volume level which does not depend on the strength of...
  • Blind Willie Johnson

    The bottleneck guitar blues by Blind Willie Johnson is sliding through space on the Voyager Golden Records

    Among the musical works sent by NASA into space to represent the cultural values ​​of mankind, sharing its rightfully...

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