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 ...

What’s the difference between a viola and a trampoline? You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline. Those damn viola jokes! Though usually good-natured and funny, they nonetheless belittle a ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For ABC Classic Presenter Ed Le Brocq, the viola has a diamond-like quality and a stunningly ...

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 ...

At the US Library of Congress in Washington in May, Roberto Díaz was playing on an exceedingly rare viola. What did not cross his mind, he says, is just how much the maple and spruce instrument ...