A female voice of aching purity begins the song a capella, reverberating as if coming from a cathedral choir loft as it climbs an octave, announcing: “centuriones convenerunt, sicut magi sacris nigris ...

Specializing in music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance using instruments of that time period, Musica da Camera opens its 2014-15 season by reprising a concert it originally presented in 1990.

Joaquin Ayala's new instrument will tell you most of what you need to know about Winter Harp, the Vancouver-based ensemble led by harpist Lori Pappa?john. Ayala, the group's keyboardist and player of ...

If most of us had to list the 40 most important guitars throughout history on the spot, hastily conjured entries might include (jokingly or not) the Guitar Hero control and the air guitar. While both ...

Joaquin Ayala of Winter Harp performs on a menagerie of strange musical instruments from medieval times, and none is more archaic than the monstrous organistrum. Grandfather of the hurdy-gurdy, with ...

Since 1999, Belarusian music ensemble Stary Olsa (Стары Ольса) has been known for playing medieval folk music on traditional instruments, including the lyre, mandolin, flute, and gusli. That may seem ...