Catalan viol virtuoso Jordi Savall and his various ensembles — Hespèrion XXI, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya — have such an extensive repertoire, from the 10th century to the ...

This month, University of Arizona viola professor Molly Gebrian published a database of pieces for viola created by underrepresented composers. The database contains over 1,100 composers and ...

Google “viola joke” and you’ll be rewarded with thousands, an afternoon’s worth of hilarity at the expense of one of the most expressive sound producing machines ever conjured up. Here’s a popular ...

Music by William Byrd and his Renaissance contemporaries was exquisitely performed by the viol group, with the versatile and sensitive soprano matching their quiet intensity Soprano Anna Prohaska’s ...

Jordi Savall began his career with a challenge that was virtually unique in music history. "When I started to play the viol, there was no model for me to learn from - the tradition had been dead for ...

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LONDON — Late on a recent midweek morning, the viol player Liam Byrne was wandering through the Charterhouse, an Elizabethan mansion in central London. The place was hushed; spring sunlight glinted on ...

The viola is in nature an undersized pansy. In art it is an oversized violin with a tubby, whiskey-contralto voice. Except for low-moaning the inner voices of symphonies and string quartets, it is not ...