Daniel Stepner, professor of the practice of music at Brandeis and longtime first violinist in the Lydian String Quartet, plays a “modern” violin crafted in 1727. And a “period” instrument made by the ...

Unless you live in Italy, it's a bit of a rare thing to have 50 brand-new Cremonese violins, violas and cellos all under one roof, waiting for you to try out. But that has been the case for the last ...

As Stradivari historian Toby Faber writes for Sotheby’s, Stradivarius violins have “no modern equivalents.” Continuously coveted and played for over three centuries, “they are without ...

Fayetteville' is a funky modern electronic track. DBR has performed with Philip ... The idea behind the album is how he can make a string instrument, the violin, percussive.

Modern acoustics is making it possible to account for the exquisite performance of the violins made by the Italian masters. The result promise a further evolution in the instruments of the violin ...