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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Simply titled “Viola Concerto,” composer Nico Muhly’s 24-minute opus could just as easily have been called “Earthquake and Aftershock.” It's heavy on timpani, other percussion and horns, in addition ...

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 ...

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 ...