Lebanon's revival of Arab music traditions

In the mountains above Beirut, one organisation is breathing life back into a treasured period of Arab music history.

Listen carefully in Lebanon and you may grasp the strains of classical Arab music breaking out of the oblivion to which it has been confined for decades.

Atop a mountain switchback leading to the stone-built village of Qornet al-Hamra, the Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (Amar) attracts both musicologists and idle music lovers, who can listen to a collection of 78rpm records on a crank handle gramophone from 1922.