Adam Eccleston: Hello from All Classical Radio. I am Adam Eccleston, guest hosting for WQXR. Today I have a wonderful program of music that features the violin and the viola. We'll highlight both ...

As the year draws to a close, a new album has cast a fresh and unexpected light on our traditional music. Sligo fiddle player Séamus McGuire has taken the viola out from the shadows and placed it ...

Jennifer Stumm is known to the world as a viola player. But when she's talking about the instrument and its music she turns again and again to the character of its different voices. “I’m so inspired ...

Jordan Hall was packed on Monday night for the first mainstage concert of the Boston Early Music Festival, an evening of Mozart’s chamber music. The performers were all accomplished period instrument ...

We’ll hear a thousand years of rich, deep music and history. The history of the viola. Garth Knox on the Medieval Fiddle (Dániel Vass / ECM Records) In the world of stringed instruments, the humble ...

How is a viola different from an onion? Nobody cries when you cut up a viola. In the hierarchical world of classical musicians, viola players have had, more than most, to bear the strings and arrows ...