The viola and the cello have the same tuning, an octave apart, but the transfer of one instrument’s music to the other is not without challenges. French violist Antoine Tamestit played both borrowed ...

[As a 10-year old violin student, Antoine Tamestit 's initial encounter with Bach's suites for solo cello was "my first and most important musical emotion" and made him want to switch instrument.

Yo-Yo Ma does not believe in making things easy on himself. It was not enough for him that his sold-out concerts this week with David Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra would feature him in ...

By Annette Hinkle When Bridgehampton Chamber Music opens its autumn series this Saturday, the first of three seasonal ...

The viola is often seen as the awkward child of the string family (and the butt of everyone’s jokes). But composers throughout the history of music have written some of their most beautiful work for ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The premiere of Brett Dean’s Hamlet at Glyndebourne in 2017 had a resonance beyond that initial production. The ...