Orient Occident, a six-piece ensemble from Turkey, Greece, Morocco, Switzerland and France, releases its eponymous debut album today. Banishing all notions of a 'clash of civilisations' their mutual ...

Since long before the era of so-called “globalization,” different nations have been commingling. Alexander the Great and his successors founded Greek cities in Afghanistan, and Arab traders set up ...

As much as one might long for Arvo PÄrt to be more musically ambitious (just as one might wish his English counterpart, John Tavener, to be less so), this would be missing the point of the Estonian… ...