Our much-loved Christmas carols wouldn't be the same without a grand descant floating above the melody. But what exactly is this alternative tune that we sing, and why do we sing it at Christmas time?

It’s angelic, it’s joyful, it’s triumphant. It is without doubt the best descant of all time. The Christmas carol ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’ was written by Charles Wesley (who composed over 600 ...

Playing pipe organs across five cities, Davachi uses their gothic plumbing to create intimate studies in frequency The pipe organs that lie – often unplayed and ignored – across tens of thousands of ...