Had Robin Holloway published Music’s Odyssey—described by its author as “an invitation to the glorious long voyage of Western classical music”—30 years ago, he might well have got away with it. By day

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

Picture the scene: a former NHS chef ‘Clem’ Clements is celebrating his 98th birthday, sitting in his front room surrounded by his medications, an oxygen mask and a discreet tape recorder. He is recal

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

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For many years the musician and ecologist Bernie Krause has lived in the Sonoma Valley in California, a base from which he travelled the globe to record natural soundscapes, creating the largest priva