Cellist James Barralet plays Bach to support the tree that gave voice to the strings.

Over 14,000 saplings of the endangered pernambuco tree have been distributed from our nursery at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, and planted at various locations on the Atlantic coast.

British actor Miriam Margolyes has joined an Indigenous leader and two London orchestras to bring out a stirring new video of a traditional Indigenous song.

As musicians have known for centuries, the best wood for violin bows comes from the pau-brasil tree, the tree that Brazil is named after. It has the perfect strength, flexibility and resonance, and nothing else sounds quite right.

But the trees are endangered following centuries of deforestation.