Harmonia, a local Eastern European folk music ensemble of national acclaim, has just released "Hidden Legacy," a CD featuring vintage sounds from Old World Europe tinged with New World influences. The CD includes mournful mountain music, rustic ...

Three weeks ago, Navid Forugh was on top of the world. The winner of "Afghan Star," the war-torn country's version of "American Idol," had just released a slate of new singles, had big ticket performances lined up across the region, and millions ...

BACH: Overtures: Complete Orchestra Suites – Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/ Petra Müllejans & Gottfried von der Golta, concertmasters – Harmonia mundi 902113.14 (2 CDs), 1:33:42 *****: Like so much of Bach’s music, we don’t know exactly ...

‘Tis the 2012 season for early music festivals and workshops. Here’s a list to help find an event near you, or else plan a great early music destination trip! May 25-28 Amherst Early Music Spring Weekend Workshop, Litchfield, CT: Programs include ...

Luanda — "Arte Harmonia Beleza e Cultura" agency (AHBC) is holding since Saturday in Luanda a fair dubbed "Bazar Chic", gathering about 18 boutiques with exhibitions of collections of clouthes and parading of models. This was said to Angop by the partner ...

Berg, Beethoven, Violin Concertos, Isabelle Faust, violin, the Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado, conductor (Harmonia Mundi). Isabelle Faust, an engaging violinist, brings out the bittersweet lyricism of the visceral, fragmented violin concerto ...

SCHUMANN'S Piano Quintet is one of the great warhorses of the Romantic repertoire. It is also a masterpiece of 19th-century chamber music and is, notwithstanding its funeral march, a work of enormous energy and optimism. Bulldozer performances of the ...

Freiburg Baroque Consort. Harmonia Mundi HMC902087; CD. ONE of the great joys of following the early-music movement has been that every once in while, a new (old) composer seems to spring from nowhere to full, blooming life. Oh, many of us had ...

SCOTLAND’S native ladybirds face being wiped out by exotic invaders spreading north from England. The harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis, originally from Asia, eats the eggs and larvae of other species, threatening their survival. And the latest ...

Harmonia, Deerhoof, Menomena, Nico Muhly, Stars Of The Lid, Youth Lagoon, Perfume Genius, Bear In Heaven, Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), Mark Mulcahy (Miracle Legion), Kathleen Edwards, Hauschka, This Is The Kit, So Percussion and Hayden. This is in ...