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 ...

Though the two Sinfonias Concertante here are scored for pairs of solo instruments - violin and viola for the D major, two violins for the work in C - only one soloist, Gabriela Demeterova, is listed.

Nobuko Imai is one of the finest viola players of our time; she has recorded Mozart's sublime Sinfonia Concertante before, for Sony Classical with Midori as solo violinist and Christoph Eschenbach ...

The terms ‘symphony’ and ‘concerto’ have histories almost as long as Western art music itself and mean different things depending on the time and place of their application. ‘Sinfonia concertante’, on ...

Aged twenty-three and travelling around Europe, Mozart was no longer the ‘boy wonder’. For someone who had been touring, on and off, since he was in single figures, twenty-three represented almost the ...

Does last week’s news that Los Angeles Philharmonic Chief Executive Chad Smith will leave the orchestra to head the Boston Symphony, coming on top of Gustavo Dudamel’s announcement that he will become ...

Nicholas Kenyon joins Fred for another installment of Must-Have Mozart. Kenyon's pick is a recording by the Vienna Philharmonic of the Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Strings by Mozart.

Nesta sexta-feira (13), o Canal da Música recebe o espetáculo Sinfonias Concertantes, a cargo da Orquestra de Câmara de Curitiba. A apresentação tem direção musical de Maurício Aguiar e traz ao palco ...

Sinfonia Concertante City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Hugo Rignold, Conductor (Charles) Edmund Rubbra, Composer, Piano Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Cyril Scott (Charles) Edmund Rubbra, ...

The 49th Hong Kong Arts Festival has largely been virtual because of travel restrictions and capacity limits at performing venues imposed to limit the spread of the coronavirus. So it was no surprise ...

In 1778 Mozart 'discovered' the sinfonia concertante, or concertos involving more than one soloist, in Mannheim, played by the fine orchestra there. Back in Salzburg a year or so later he wrote one of ...