Vivaldi wrote hundreds of concertos, nearly all of them for relatively conventional instruments. But his eight works for the viola d’amore — the plangent, full-bodied stringed instrument that is ...

This is the first-ever work dedicated to the viola by an Iranian artist in the international market, IRNA reported on Friday. Taei’s book compiles and presents several prominent concertos for the ...

There's a moment of magic in Nico Muhly's major new Viola Concerto near the end of the first section when the texture thins out enough that a lyrical solo melodic line from the soloist emerges from ...

Google “viola joke” and you’ll be rewarded with thousands, an afternoon’s worth of hilarity at the expense of one of the most expressive sound producing machines ever conjured up. Here’s a popular ...

Google “viola joke” and you’ll be rewarded with thousands, an afternoon’s worth of hilarity at the expense of one of the most expressive sound producing machines ever conjured up. Here’s a popular ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The premiere of Brett Dean’s Hamlet at Glyndebourne in 2017 had a resonance beyond that initial production. The ...

Later this month, violist Lawrence Power will perform the Scottish premiere of Anders Hillborg’s Viola Concerto with the SCO. He tells Ken Walton how the Fab Four ended up in the mix Did you know with ...

The viola is the throaty mezzo-soprano or contralto of the orchestra's stringed instruments, defined more by what it lacks than by what it has. Looking like an oversize violin, it commands neither the ...

One might think that on a concert program dominated by Hector Berlioz’s splashy, phantasmagoric Symphonie Fantastique and Beethoven’s weighty “Coriolan” Overture, a little-known 20th-century work ...

The National Symphony Orchestra had to split time between soloists this weekend, with Alisa Weilerstein yielding to violist David Aaron Carpenter on Friday night so that he and the orchestra could ...

The latest addition to the viola repertoire will be unveiled in South Florida Wednesday at the University of Miami’s Gusman Hall, when the viola virtuoso Roberto Díaz performs a new concerto by ...