Jordi Savall is the Yo-Yo Ma of the Viola da Gamba, an instrument that predates the modern-day cello. The Catalan musician spends most of his time dusting off little-known music from around the time ...

The bowed lyre has been on my mind for the past few weeks, ever since I followed a sign on our main road to the local Viking & Anglo Saxon Festival. I’ve been thinking (even more than usual) about the ...

Early Music is a stimulating and richly illustrated journal that is unrivalled in its field. Founded in 1973, it remains the journal for anyone interested in early music and how it is being ...

Gangzi might be a one-off – just how many Mongolian throat-singing, trance-folk-rockers can be out there? But he wasn’t the only head-spinning marvel playing Helsinki’s Niubi Festival. Psychedelic ...