But some instruments exceed all others, both in terms of their sound and in terms of their cost. This list features some of the most expensive and valuable instruments ever sold, and you may notice ...

Bernard Rands, who has died aged 92, was a Yorkshire-born composer rooted in the European modernist tradition who spent much of his career in the US; in 1984 he won a Pulitzer Prize with Canti del ...

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String Theory at the Hunter, in partnership with Lee University and the Hunter Museum of American Art, will present Bloch and ...

Today sees the release of new albums from Jean Johnson and Steven Osborne, Ensemble Intercontemporain and Pierre Bleuse, Boris Giltburg and more Boris Giltburg (Naxos) Boris Giltburg's impressive ...