All Fine-Contemporary articles – Page 11
-
GalleryFrom the Archive: a Domenica Montagana violin, 1715
This illustration of a Domenica Montagana violin was published in The Strad, June 1912. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: Of all the fiddles whose pictures have appeared in The Strad I can recall none to which that much abused word ‘unique’ can be more ...
-
GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Giovanni Battista Rogeri, Brescia
This illustration of a violin by G.B. Rogeri was published in The Strad, May 1931. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:G.B Rogeri was born in Bologna about 1650, and records show that he came to Cremona to learn fiddle-making from Niccolo Amati. The influence of ...
-
ArticleViolinist Ray Chen has his bow rehaired
Queen Elisabeth and Menuhin Competitions winner Ray Chen visits The Violin Studio in Brisbane to have his bow rehaired and tries out various instruments.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
-
NewsLondon stringed instrument dealer J & A Beare launches its first exclusively online auction
The initial sale features 37 instruments, including a Stradivarius violin and two Guadagninis
-
ArticleRachel Barton Pine talks about the Guarneri 'del Gesù' 'Soldat' violin, 1742
I have always been a Guarneri girl myself. They can be as sweet as a Strad when they want to be, but they also have guts!'Rachel Barton Pine talks about the Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù' 'Soldat' violin, which is on loan to her.The instrument features in The Strad's ...
-
ArticleFrom the Archive: Giuseppe Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ ‘Leduc’ violin, 1745
This illustration of the Giuseppe Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ ‘Leduc’ violin was published in The Strad, March 1924. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:Unlike several well-known Strad violins, the ‘Leduc’ seems to have no particular history, either romantic or otherwise attached to it. Be that as ...
-
ArticleRichard Tognetti performs the Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Ges’' 'Carrodus' violin, 1743
Richard Tognetti performs the Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù' 'Carrodus' violin, 1743 with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in his own arrangement of the third movement of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The instrument features in The Strad's 2015 calendar, 'Violins of the Stars', on sale now. John Dilworth explores the ...
-
ArticleRenaud Capuçon plays the Guarneri 'del Gesù' 'Panette' violin, 1737
Renaud Capuçon performs Gluck's Melodie on the Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù' 'Panette' violin, 1737.The instrument features in The Strad's 2015 calendar, 'Violins of the Stars', on sale now.John Dilworth explores the stories and craftsmanship behind each of the twelve instruments showcased in the calendar in The Strad's October ...
-
Article3D Imaging: Girolamo Amati contralto viola
In The Strad's October 2014 issue, we report on the investigation into a recently rediscovered contralto viola by Girolamo Amati, which involved CT scanning, macro photography and 3D imaging. This 360-degree rendering of the viola's interior was made by Violinforensic, using scans taken at the Vienna Micro-CT Lab.The ...
-
BlogsVideo: how I came to play Pablo Casals's 1733 Goffriller cello, by Amit Peled
The Israeli artist tells of his first encounter with Casals's cello in 2012, and how he came to be loaned the instrument by Marta Casals Istomin. Watch a clip of him playing the instrument below.
-
GalleryYale School of Music: The Petryn Collection
The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments recently acquired more than 20 stringed instruments and bows from the Andrew F. Petryn Collection. Here are five of the highlights: violins by Nicolò Amati, Matthias Klotz and Johann Klotz, an 18th-century English cello, and a c.1770 quinton by Nicolas Augustin Chappuy. ...
-
NewsMoscow violin making competition announces winners
The ‘Violin: Soul and Shape' event took place this month, recognising makers in several categories
-
Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by John Hare, 1720
This illustration of a violin by John Hare was published in The Strad, October 1913. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs
-
NewsMiklós Perényi appointed Royal Northern College of Music International Chair in Cello
The cellist joins the UK institution this year
-
NewsYale Collection of Musical Instruments acquires violins by Guarneri and Amati
The bequest from the Andrew F. Petryn Collection also includes three Tourte bows
-
Blogs7 ways to build a 21st-century music career by Time for Three
Violinists Zach De Pue and Nick Kendall, and double bassist Ranaan Meyer talk about their path to success
-
ArticleVivaldi on the world's smallest performable violin?
A video has emerged from Venezuela of a performance of Vivaldi's Concerto in A minor on what is described as the world's smallest violin. Whether this is indeed the world's smallest performable violin, it's certainly a squeaky novelty, boasting impressive finger control. Subscribe to The Strad or ...
-
GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Stefano Scarampella, Mantua, 1901
This illustration of a violin by Stefano Scarampella was published in The Strad, July 1958. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: The founder of the Scarampella family of violin makers, which originated in Brescia, was Paolo who was born in Brescia in 1803 and died ...
-
GalleryA 1963 violin by Otello Bignami
This is a 1963 violin by Otello Bignami, one of the key figures in 20th-century Bolognese lutherie, who was born 100 years ago this year. Instruments of the Bologna school demonstrates the following features, as defined by Bignami in 1984: 'The purfling is peculiar, in that it is made up ...
-
GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda, Turin c1820
Thess photographs of a violin by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda was published in The Strad, January 1959. The following text is extracted from the accompanying article
