Maxim Vengerov performs Ernst's The Last Rose of Summer on a Guarneri del Gesù c.1740 violin, previously played by Hungarian violinist and conductor Sándor Végh.
The instrument will be loaned to the winner of the 2016 Menuhin Competition Junior Category for two years by Florian Leonhard Fine Violins.
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Best known as Yehudi Menuhin’s instrument for much of his career, the violin is still in an excellent state of preservation
For years the main instrument used by Isaac Stern, it is now in the hands of Renaud Capuçon.
Once considered the crowning achievement of Guarneri’s career, this instrument has pristine golden-orange varnish
Ma plays the solemn D minor Prelude amid melting permafrost on Lower Tanana Dene lands in Fairbanks, Alaska
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