’Even on the open strings you can tell the difference. The Strad has this resonance, clarity and warmth’
Violinist Ray Chen compares a $69 factory-made violin with the 1735 ’Samazeuilh’ Stradivari violin worth around $10m.
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Viktoria Mullova uses a Baroque bow to perform Bach’s Violin Concertos nos.1 in A minor and 2 in E major with Accademia Bizantina, directed from the harpsichord by Ottavio Dantone. Mullova recorded the works with the ensemble for Onyx in 2013. In The Strad’s August 2020 issue she ...
The video was recorded by current students, alumni and mentors of the music education charity
In 2016 the ‘Messiah’ Stradivari was the subject of an extensive CT scanning project. Francesco Piasentini and Gregg Alf examine the resulting data, discovering repair work in the neck, and attempt to determine how it had originally been set
Korinthia Klein presents a simple player’s guide to violin maintenance, without encroaching on luthiers’ territory
Korinthia Klein presents a simple player’s guide to violin maintenance, without encroaching on luthiers’ territory
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