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News
Nippon Foundation opens loan applications, including for Paganini Quartet
The Japanese collection will be deciding the next recipients of six Stradivarius instruments, including the complete quartet once treasured by Paganini
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Video
Comparing Stradivari and Guarneri cellos with Pablo Ferrández
In this video, Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández plays two cellos side by side: the 1696 ‘Lord Aylesford’ Stradivari which he has on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation and a 1694 Giuseppe Guarneri ‘filius Andreae’ from J A Beare in London.
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Focus
Maxim Vengerov: Me and my Strads
In conversation with Sota Nakazawa, Russian virtuoso Maxim Vengerov explains his love for Stradivari instruments, and his long relationship with them
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News
Ten Stradivarius instruments brought together for D.C. concert
Library of Congress collection joined by ‘Paganini’ quartet for special event. Philip J. Kass reports
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News
Quartet of Stradivarius instruments once owned by Paganini back in action
Quartetto di Cremona takes on full set of Strads previously played by the Hagen and Tokyo Quartets
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Gallery
From the Archive: the 1730 'De Munck-Feuermann' Stradivarius cello
This photograph was published in the April 1988 issue of The Strad. The following text is extracted from the accompanying article:
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Article
1721 'Lady Blunt' Stradivari violin sells for £9.8m
The 1721 'Lady Blunt', one of the best-preserved Stradivari violins in existence, was sold yesterday in a Tarisio online auction for £9.8m ($15.9m). The figure, which includes the buyer's premium (the hammer price was £8,750,000), is over four times the previous auction record for a Stradivari violin. The buyer was ...