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Israeli violinist Shlomo Mintz tries out the 1727 'Vesuvius' Stradivarius for the first time before performing on the instrument at the prize giving ceremony of the Cremona Musica Award 2016 - which he won in October. The violin forms part of the collection of the Museo del Violino in Cremona.
Watch: Shlomo Mintz plays Paganini
Watch: David Garrett tries out Stradivari and Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violins
Check out this fiery throwback performance of the violinist from 1981
Test your violin knowledge with some of the questions from the VSA convention’s Trivia Night on Monday 18 November
The British dendrochronology expert explains his latest research, revealing how wood from one source can appear in centuries-old instruments made thousands of miles apart
Bernsted performs a solo work that she describes as having ‘complexity like a kaleidoscope’
Check out a string chamber version of Vaughan Williams’s beloved work for violin
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Oesi and pianist Andrea Vasi perform Bottesini’s Allegro Di Concerto ’Alla Mendelssohn,’ which was released as a single last week
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