The viola is often seen as the awkward child of the string family (and the butt of everyone’s jokes). But composers throughout the history of music have written some of their most beautiful work for ...
The viola is the middle voice of the string family. It is slightly larger than a violin and has a lower and deeper sound than a violin. Since the 18th century it has been the middle or alto voice of ...
On Garth Knox's new album, Saltarello, the adventurous violist creates surprising musical juxtapositions. Garth Knox was born to play the viola. As a youngster, he already had two sisters who played ...
Liam Byrne plays the viola da gamba as both a soloist and with a variety of musical ensembles and artists, including the Dunedin Consort, Fretwork, and Crash Ensemble. In this programme Liam discovers ...
"People sometimes think playing the viola is boring," muses Teng Li, the newly appointed principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. "Traditionally, the viola has been considered a 'filler' ...
Victor Fournelle-Blain, principal violist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, joins us from his home in Montreal with the “Prelude” from J.S. Bach’s “Cello Suite No. 2” played on his 1703 Amati viola.
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Lawrence Power’s instrument has been overlooked throughout its history. He has made a career of changing that. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London ...
At the Library of Congress last month, Roberto Díaz was playing on an exceedingly rare viola. What didn’t cross his mind, he says, is just how much the hunk of maple and spruce clutched beneath his ...
Garth Knox was born to play the viola. As a youngster, he already had two sisters who played violin and a brother who played cello. "So for the family string quartet," Knox says, "it was very clear ...
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