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 ...

What: Jahja Ling conducts works by Mendelssohn, Strauss and Chihara. When: 8 p.m. Thursday, April 30 through Saturday, May 2; 3 p.m. Sunda, May 3. Where: Severance ...

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 ...

Naxos’s valuable and ongoing Penderecki series here couples the Second Cello Concerto of 1982 and the Viola Concerto of 1983. Penderecki made his reputation in the late 1950s as a master of striking, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jennifer Higdon’s Viola Concerto will be performed at 8 p.m. March 11 at the University of Miami’s Gusman Hall on the Friends of Chamber Music of Miami series. miamichambermusic.org, 305-372-2975 For ...