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What many think of as classical music is different from the music audiences actually heard when the hits were written. To capture the essence of a song from, say, the 1600s, performers need the right ...

In the final pages of Charles Burney’s massive four-volume General History of Music published between 1776 and 1789 and the first of its kind written in English, there appears an elegy for an ...

Gerald Trimble warms up for a recording session at Sound 81 Productions in Riverside, Missouri.. The instruments have roots in 15th Century Moorish Spain, and there aren’t that many of them in Kansas ...

The viola da gamba, Jordi Savall said, “started a long sleep” around 1800, when the instrument fell out of widespread favor. Savall is one of the world’s leading gamba players, and on Sunday afternoon ...

Who knew a metal classic could sound so good on an old Renaissance string instrument? Metallica are big classical music fans – they recorded their album S&M with the San Francisco Symphony in 1999, ...

After an Alitalia flight during which her viola da gamba was badly damaged, the owner of the instrument has called on airlines to change their policy. Last week, musician Myrna Herzog posted images of ...

Leonardo da Vinci invented numerous devices that he never built, including the viola organista -- a machine-like instrument that combines a harpsichord, an organ and a viola da gamba. This ...

Last year around this time, Ronn McFarlane and Carolyn Surrick, who are usually quite busy with their early music ensembles, had the time and space to finally make music together. That special musical ...

One of the leading stars of the Edinburgh International Festival, the Spanish virtuoso Jordi Savall, has been involved in a mid-air incident on his journey to the capital. Mr Savall, 66, a pioneering ...

A musical instrument, the Viola Organista, dreamt up by the Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci, has been brought back to life thanks to a Polish concert pianist with a flair for ...