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 ...

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 ...

CORRECTION:A previous version of this review listed the "Tuscan-Medici" viola as a Guarneri. The instrument is a Stradivari. It also stated that Roberto Diaz is president of the Curtis Conservatory.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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This insane viola concerto requires its soloist to literally start screaming halfway through a movement. Jörg Widmann, a German conductor, clarinettist and quite frankly one of the most intriguing ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Timothy Ridout, Viola BBC Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins, Conductor The first thing worth mentioning about this remarkable recording is the sound, an Andrew Keener ...

The Concerto for Orchestra was composer Bela Bartok's last completed work; he did not live to finish either the Third Piano Concerto or the Viola Concerto that followed it. In these last works, all ...