stradivarius instruments

Five Stradivari instruments (two violins, one viola, two cellos) and one Amati viola are performed together at the Museo del Violino in Cremona, Italy. The ensemble features members of the Stradivari Quartet alongside violist Simone Gramaglia and cellist David Pia in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, K364.

The instruments played are:

Antonio Stradivari 'Aurea' violin, 1715 - Xiaoming Wang

Antonio Stradivari 'King George' violin, 1710 - Sebastian Bohren

Antonio Stradivari 'Gibson' viola, 1734 - Lech Antonio Uszynski

Antonio Stradivari 'Bonamy Dobree - Suggia' cello, 1717 - Maja Weber

Antonio Stradivari 'De Kermadec-Blass' cello, 1698 - David Pia

Girolamo Amati 'Stauffer' viola, 1615 - Simone Gramaglia

Watch: David Garrett tries out Stradivari and Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violins