On his debut recording, Bach (2013, Deutsche Grammophon), mandolinist Avi Avital played a pristine, clinically punctilious JSB. It is therefore no surprise that Avital moves a little earlier in the ...

Sometimes hearing a new approach to a familiar piece of music can help you to listen to it in a different way, opening your ears anew. Oboist Jelena Dirks. When • 8 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday Where ...

Audience attire aside, a powerful ambience of 18th-century Baroque culture was duly delivered from the stage, with mandolinist Avi Avital at the helm and in the conceptual driver’s seat. This ...

Avi Avital became intrigued by the playing and sound of the mandolin when he was a small child growing up in Israel. And the now Grammy-nominated mandolinist is bringing his passion for the stringed ...

Avi Avital is one of the world's leading classical mandolinists, gracing concert halls from Tel Aviv to Munich to New York. But the young Israeli says he discovered the mandolin only by coincidence.

Kirill Petrenko’s supposed indifference to making recordings is overstated: there’s a whole load of stuff to watch on the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Digital Concert Hall, and own-label CD releases have ...