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 ...

Swiss Alpine Music. Alphorn and Yodel. Produced by Lukas Jaggi and Christian Strickler for swissinfo (2006). As a Swiss Abroad, how do you feel about the emergence of more conservative family policies ...

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 ...

A Swiss Alphorn Concert featuring Swiss singers, yodeling, alphorns, guitars, and a flugelhorn will share a religious concert on Saturday evening, April 27, at Conestoga Mennonite Church. This free ...

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 ...

If you're going to imagine a stereotypical Swiss person, you may think of someone with an alphorn, due to all the Swiss connotations that it possesses. So tonight in Taipei, alphorn fans and ...

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 ...

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.