Ohio is not a state known for its mountains. The Hocking Hills, the Appalachian foothills and the state’s other areas of rolling terrain, though lush and beautiful, aren’t exactly the Alps. But that’s ...

13. Alphorn and Orchestra (Jean Daetwyler: Dance of the Goatherds. From Concerto for Alphorn (excerpt)) Joszef Molnar, alphorn; The City of Lucerne Orchestra; Jean Daetwyler, conductor Switzerland is ...

We asked you which instrument the alphorn is most similar to. Find out here if you were the lucky winner of our wristwatch in an exclusive Euromaxx design. The alphorn is a wind instrument ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS – Symphony orchestras have flutes and French horns and lots and lots of violins. Sometimes they also have really bizarre, totally zany musical instruments. Grand Rapids Symphony trots out ...

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 ...

A tiny horn used by diminutive mountain shepherds to communicate across valleys—no, wait, sorry, this is a different kind of instrument. This channel electron multiplier amplifies the faint signals ...

BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov are joined by the Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet to perform GF Haas's Concerto Grosso No 1 and Strauss's An Alpine Symphony.

NENDAZ, Switzerland (Reuters) - The soft sounds of hundreds of wooden Swiss alpine horns filled the valley below Switzerland's Mount Tracouet on Sunday, as the world's largest festival of its kind ...

For some, it’s the first time they’ve seen their friends in three years. For others, it’s a chance to bring out their traditional embroidered dresses or velvet Berner jackets trimmed in firecracker ...

Traditional summons to the Landsgemeinde of Stans (Central Switzerland). Perfromed by Arnold Lussi. 2. Alphorn Solo. Traditional herdsman’s air from Ormont. Canton Vaud. Performed by Jakob Spälti. 3.