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 ...

A mechanical string instrument from the Middle Ages that can still evoke chills today... With a few turns on a hurdy-gurdy’s hand crank, a rosined wheel sweeps against the instrument’s three main ...

Berlin’s music scene is notorious for its unrelenting beats and chemical heart, its constant drive for the new. But a few artisans who hand-craft instruments work hard to keep medieval and baroque ...

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