I hadn’t touched a mandolin since adolescence, and, even then, I’d only fooled around. My wife was beside me. “Do it,” she ...

Earlier this year, GQ styled Athens' cool kids – from a 22-year-old basketball player to a 74-year-old sculptor. Greek writer ...

Piano, Orchestral, Voice and Strings. Just scroll down, click on pieces to play them in BBC Sounds, then simply click back and carry on discovering. You will also find radio programmes and podcasts ...

Excitement was brought to us by the overture, Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers. Teasing motifs, powerful interjections, good tunes and prolonged crescendos were convincingly delivered under ...

Santa Barbara Symphony’s ‘Bella Italia’ program leaned into Italian fare, including an impressive new accordion concerto ...

Doug Irwin, the guitar constructor responsible for one of late rocker Jerry Garcia's most famed six-strings, has died at 76.

Humans' love for music is not new, and it has been a constant companion from time immemorial. It may have begun without any musical instruments, but ...

Tamerlano, tyrannical Emperor of the Tartars, is a burger-munching boor with a golf-habit, a bulbous belly and a crashing ...

When you're in a world-class chamber group like The Calidore String Quartet in Delaware, each instrument carries a colorful ...

When Antonio Stradivari died in Cremona, Italy in 1737, he left behind him an estimated 1,100 masterfully constructed stringed instruments, of which perhaps 600 that have any claim to his name exist ...