Performers from the rock and folk worlds regularly try their hands at classical music, and the results are typically superficial, derivative or just plain hokey. But Chris Thile’s “Mandolin Concerto ...

"I have created this album to paint a portrait of the mandolin as I have never done before. To tell a story – an unfinished story – of an instrument at once familiar and unknown." - Avi Avital ...

Baroque ensemble Artemandoline's glittering new album, this week's Feature Album on ABC Classic, traces the history of the mandolin in London as the instrument's popularity in Italy spread to England.

Bach and Takemitsu? They might be quite different composers, but Avi Avital explains exactly why they should be paired together - and played on the mandolin. Bringing a new audience to the mandolin ...