His recent tour around Egypt started 5 September with a performance ... ask so many things about Indian classical music, what is raga (melodic scale) and tala (rhythmic cycle) system," Ray ...

In London, on a Friday afternoon in Crystal Palace in 1888, the first recording of a piece of classical music was made. The work was Handel’s biblical oratorio Israel in Egypt, and it was etched onto ...

For many decades Egypt was at the heart of Arabic music, and a pioneer of Western classical music practices in the Arab world. Egypt’s Golden Age (1950s-1970s) was known for setting trends and ...

But over time, it has come to be regarded as one of Handel’s triumphs. You’ll hear selections from Israel in Egypt on Sunday Baroque, starting at 7 a.m. on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.