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John Wallace Born 1949 Trumpeter On 29 July 1981, millions of television viewers worldwide heard the sparkling trumpet of John Wallace introduce Handel’s ‘Let the Bright Seraphim’, sung by Kiri Te Kan

A rich collection of Iron Age artefacts has been unearthed in West Norfolk, England. The hoard includes a near-complete Iron Age battle trumpet, known as a carnyx. Embellished with animal heads, this

Music is a serious business. Whether it’s love, death, heartbreak, loneliness, power, conflict, destruction, sin, faith, hope, despair… you name it, every weighty subject and state of mind has been ta

Malin Broman (violin); Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding OUR Recordings 9.70867 22 mins This recording comes from the premiere of Helen Grime’s Concerto in 2016, but it has taken a long

Antoine Tamestit (viola) Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble/ Marc Minkowski Naive V5266 The famous Scottish violist William Primrose made the first ever studio recording of Harold in Italy with the Bost

Michael Fjeldsøe, Katarina Smitt Engberg, Bjarke Moe Aarhus University Press 978-87-7597-332-3 794pp (hb) £39 Academic studies of composers notoriously combine convoluted, abstract thinking with an in