Here, a lute is being crafted in a workshop. This week on Fretworks, I'll have some music for the mandolin and for the lute, as well as classical guitar. For good measure, there is also a piece for ...

You’ve probably heard the mandolin, but you may NOT have heard music by Johann Sebastian Bach played on the mandolin. Avi Avital wants to change that. Hear Avi Avital play his arrangement of one of ...

More than virtually any other instrument, the mandolin stands for different things depending on time and place. In the 18th century it was the preserve of the wealthy in salons across Europe; by the ...

This Saturday at 7pm on Classical 101 on Fretworks, weâ ll hear from guitarist Jason Vieauxâ s brand new recording with music of Francesco Tarrega, and Antonio Carlos Jobim and Stanley Myersâ lovely ...

Avi Avital is the featured performer in "InstaConcerto for Mandolin and Orchestra," a 75-second concerto written for Instagram. Harald Hoffman/Deutsche Grammophon What do you think of when you think ...

During this concert, Avital spoke about the mandolin’s identity conflict. A staple instrument of classical music in the 17th and 18th centuries, it is now more closely associated with folk. In his ...

Americans were once mad for mandolins. Yet today, most have disappeared. We visit one of the remaining mandolin orchestras, which is celebrating its 90th birthday. Mandolin fever swept the United ...

Chris Thile – mandolin virtuoso, composer and vocalist – transcends the borders of conventionally defined musical genres.Equally at home with progressive bluegrass, classical, rock, and jazz, Thile ...