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 ...

The iconography of Orpheus often shows him drawing a bow across the strings of a bulky fiddle, which he balances on his shoulder. What Apollo is supposed to have given to Orpheus was a lyre, which he ...

Jo Bird's creative wings will not be clipped. While she plays the viola, she sees no reason to limit herself to classical music. Bird is co-founder of Two Star Symphony, a progressive classical ...

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 ...

Chamber music is an intimate experience. For the performer, it’s a chance for personal expression and interpretation of the ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Amid the high-pitched melodies so common to student recitals, a lower, mellower tone emerged on ...

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 ...

Playing against some of the best fiddlers in the country last month, Colorado State University Pueblo student Eavia Ryan took home the championship prize at the Walnut Valley Festival's Old-time ...