Flicking through this box set will provoke a Proustian rush if you’re of a certain age. These recordings were mostly made for EMI, though Warner Classics have wisely kept the LPs’ original sleeve art, ...

The final volume in John Eliot Gardiner’s mammoth Bach Cantata sequence is one of the very best. Gardiner’s recent BBC2 documentary placed rightful emphasis on Bach’s humanity, his normality. The ...

The accordion was the first instrument Joan Grauman ever heard. As the daughter of Joseph Tacchetti, an Italian immigrant and an award-winning accordionist, Grauman was handed a musical legacy that ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Magical to listen to and fascinating to watch in action, the accordion takes simple, everyday air and ...

Polish accordion player Klaudiusz Baran performs at the International Accordion Festival in Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily] When accordion player Klaudiusz Baran, the rector of the Fryderyk ...

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Celso Piña, one of Latin America’s most beloved accordion players and singer-songwriters, died of a heart attack in his hometown of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. His record label, La Tuna Group, ...

Walter Kuehr made his own name by making a name for what he called "the hippest instrument on the planet": the accordion. He died earlier this month at age 59. Walter Kuehr was known as the accordion ...