Throughout this season Jörg Widman is composer-performer in residence at Wigmore Hall, so this is a good time to find out more about his music. The German composer’s own instrument is the clarinet, ...
Krzysztof Penderecki's Viola Concerto was commissioned in 1983 by the government of Venezuela to mark the bicentenary of birth of Simon Bolivar, the South American hero of the struggle for ...
Poor viola! Neglected and ridiculed for centuries this (really very lovely) instrument has been the receiving end of many a joke and jibe. Berlioz, who had a soft spot for the viola, believed it to be ...
Béla Bartók is the undisputed master among these three Hungarian composers of works for viola and orchestra. In the world of the viola, Tibor Serly (1901-78) is best-known as the man who made a ...
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A viola week downtown infused everything from Brahms to a symposium on a Korean composer
It’s late autumn — viola time. The viola should perhaps be the instrument of summer. Its tone suggests sumptuous ripeness from the top of its range to bottom. But falling between the violin’s soaring ...
Operatically speaking, Manon is the girl who walks on stage a schoolgirl virgin heading for a nunnery and, within minutes, has hooked a lover, tasted money and thrown away her chastity belt. "I quite ...
Violist Timothy Ridout makes deft work of Lionel Tertis’s arrangement of Elgar’s cello concerto and is equally impressive in Bloch’s Suite for viola and piano Elgar signalled his approval of Lionel ...
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Edward Gardner, Conductor James Ehnes, Viola William Walton, Composer BBC Symphony Orchestra Sonata for strings BBC Symphony Orchestra William Walton, Composer Edward ...
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