All Guadagnini articles
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News20-year-old Bartu Elci-Ozsoy loaned the 1760 ‘ex-Vidas’ Guadagnini violin
The violin once belonged to 20th-century virtuoso violinist Raoul Georges Vidas, nicknamed ‘the grandson of Massart’
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NewsEmily Sun loaned ‘The Adelaide’ Guadagnini violin
The violinist was formally handed over the instrument from UKARIA on 18 November 2023
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A c.1773 G.B. Guadagnini violin
Jason Price takes a look at the record-breaking ‘Sinzheimer’ violin
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Focus‘The best viola of mine’ - Count Cozio’s 1773 Guadagnini viola
Alberto Giordano and Barthelemy Garnier examine the business agreement between G.B Guadagnini and Count Cozio di Salabue that allowed the luthier to create a new style of viola, in this excerpt from the January 2022 issue
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1751 G.B. Guadagnini violin
Stewart Pollens examines a violin that was formerly owned by Adolph Brodsky
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2023: 1743 ‘Ngeringa’ Guadagnini cello
The instrument is one of only 39 cellos known to have been made by Guadagnini
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2023: 1784 Guadagnini violin
One of the last instruments made by the luthier, who died in 1786, the violin has a miraculously intact varnish and an excellent soprano sound with great projection
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NewsSibelius Competition winner gets his hands on a Guadagnini violin
Violinist Inmo Yang has been granted use of the violin as part of the Sibelius Competition’s first prize package from earlier this year
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by J.B. Guadagnini, Turin, 1780, the ‘Louis Spohr’
This illustration of the ‘Louis Spohr’ Guadagnini was published in The Strad, March 1962. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: The J.B. Guadagnini illustrated is one of the finest specimens of this maker’s Turin works in existence. Like the best Guadagnini violins of the Turin ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by J.B. Guadagnini, Parma 1769
This illustration of a violin by J.B. Guadagnini was published in The Strad, November 1938. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs
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ReviewBook review: The Fulton Collection: A Guided Tour
John Dilworth reads through a guided tour of one of the finest stringed instrument collections of modern times
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FocusThe Strad Podcast Episode #28: Alexandra Conunova on losing her Guadagnini violin
Conunova’s violin was seized by customs officials at Chișinău airport in October 2021. She shares what happened on that day, as well as how she finally managed to get the instrument back after two months
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2022: G.B. Guadagnini cello 1750
The Guadagnini cello has intense deep reddish-brown varnish to spare
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MarketingIn Focus 2: The Strad’s latest instrument anthology
Containing 53 instruments examined by 30 of The Strad’s most trusted writers
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VideoThe Strad Calendar 2021: G.B. Guadagnini cello 1783
Formerly owned by Rostropovich, the fully arched model provides great depth of tone
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn focus: a 1929 violin by Paolo Guadagnini
Richard Ward examines an instrument by the last member of the Guadagnini dynasty
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by J.B. Guadagnini
This illustration of a violin by J.B. Guadagnini was published in The Strad, September 1937. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs
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FocusIn focus: 1751 violin by G.B. Guadagnini
One of two by the maker owned by Adolph Brodsky, it has a good claim to being the one on which he premiered the Tchaikovsky concerto, writes Stewart Pollens
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NewsNew record set for G.B. Guadagnini at London auction
The ‘Sinzheimer’ violin pushes past $2m mark in Tarisio auction, breaking previous record for maker set in 2016
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VideoAnastasia Kobekina plays prelude from Bach Cello Suite no.6
Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina performs the prelude from Bach’s sixth cello suite. Kobekina is a Moscow Conservatory and Kronberg Academy graduate and currently studies with Jens Peter Maintz at the Berlin University of the Arts. Kobekina plays a 1743 G. B. Guadagnini cello, which is on loan to her as ...
