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Hmm. This is tough. Um, personal favourites for now (they change very frequently) would be, in no particular order, 1. Handel-Halvorsen: Passacaglia for violin and viola 2. Dvorak's 9th symphony (I like Dvorak a lot!) 3. Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre 4. Puccini: I Crisantemi 5. Beethoven's Pathetique s...

My teacher has been complaining for a while now that my viola's sound is not 'open'. How do you open up an instrument's sound? My viola is about two years old and I play it at least three times a week.

I think the comments are possibly more entertaining than the notes themselves!

Ravel's Pavane for a dead princess. Interestingly I first heard it on a Japanese CSI-style show O: