Famous Spanish folk dances such as the zarabanda, chacona, folia and canario were for a long time prohibited for their obscene and irreverent poetic content.  Nevertheless, important exponents of this...

In 1988, a bricklayer found De Codex Caioni inside a wall in Romania. This collection of music provides a fascinating insight into the music that would have been heard in around 1650 at the court of P...

The mythical Orpheus, who lost his Eurydice forever when he looked back as he was rescuing her from the underworld, has inspired everything from the most creative composers to the most dramatic compos...

The flawless voices of Pluto Ensemble (with Marnix De Cat), the authentic string sounds of Hathor (with Romina Lischka) and the unparalleled wind instruments of Oltremontano (with Wim Becu) combine to...