Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Performers from the rock and folk worlds regularly try their hands at classical music, and the results are typically superficial, derivative or just plain ...

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 ...

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.

His frail body belies the vigour with which his fingers fly on the mandolin strings. Asked to list his favourite songs — a challenge for a musician whose career spans seven decades in the Hindi film ...

"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 ...