Switzerland: the country of mouth-watering chocolate, cheese fondue and precision clockwork set against the backdrop of breath-taking mountainous scenery. Accompanying all of this is the soundtrack of ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. The hills were alive with the sound of music on Sunday (July 28) as 3,500 people braved the heights of Switzerland's ...

A hundred alphorn players gather high up in the Swiss Alps for the 22nd International Alphorn Festival, with their dulcet tones and harmonies echoing around the mountains. The alphorn is a traditional ...

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What is thought to be the UK's largest gathering of alpine horn enthusiasts has been staged in Berkshire. Eleven members of the UK Alphorn Network (UKAN) brought their instruments to Downe House ...

BERNE, Switzerland -- The alphorn, a 12-foot-long wooden folk instrument played by Swiss shepherds to communicate across mountain valleys, hasn't exactly been the inspiration for many rock stars.

Picture: Keystone/Gaetan Bally Alphorn player Eliana Burki died of a brain tumor in April 2023. Her partner is now publishing the last music she recorded. He remembers the nature of his partner.

Swiss composers understandably avoid chocolate box clichés, but a performance at the Lucerne festival demonstrated the elemental power of the alphorn One of the mysteries of being in Lucerne is why it ...

A holiday in the Alps is never complete without playing a traditional Alpine instrument called alphorn, which incidentally is twice your size, writes Sonali Shah. Arre, not like that. Make a car ...

This inherently Swiss summer folk music festival is rooted in tradition. Every July, Alphorn players from across the world descend on Nendaz in Canton Valais to celebrate the hauntingly beautiful ...

The players formed a wide semi-circle at Tracouet above the ski resort of Haute Nendaz in southern Switzerland for the country's annual alphorn competition, which celebrates the musical instrument in ...