“There are many great violinists, but Heifetz, he is in a class by himself.” These were the words...

Prior to the 18th century, there was no real industry of violin restorers and repairers. If an instrument...

It is perhaps surprising that so much remains unknown about the origins and training of the most famous...

Over the course of the 20th century, three important female violinists made their careers with...

Jason Price examines the c. 1720 'Kux, Castelbarco' Stradivari viola, one of only twelve known...

Stradivari’s ‘Golden Period’, the universally acknowledged ne plus ultra of his extraordinary 70-year working life,...

Almost all Stradivari and Guarneri instruments have a nickname. Sometimes these come from a famous...

'First class. Ranks among the 10 finest specimens in existence.[1] With this sentence Emil Herrmann,...

The trail-blazing career of Wilma Neruda from child prodigy to Lady Hallé, latest in our Historic Women Performers...

The story of Joachim’s great-nieces, Adila and Jelly d’Aranyi, who delighted audiences across Europe

The history of Guilhermina Suggia’s prized 1717 Stradivari cello, by Alessandra Barabaschi

Pierre Amoyal, Jascha Heifetz and the ‘Kochanski’ Stradivari, by Alessandra Barabaschi

Late-period Stradivari cellos part 2: the B piccola model ‘Vaslin Composite’

Late-period Stradivari cellos part 1: the shorter model ‘Bein, Fruh’ of c. 1727

Violinist Alexi Kenney on playing the ‘Joachim, Ma’ Strad; with commentary from Jason Price

Stradivari’s ‘Archinto’ viola and its noble owner, Count Giuseppe Archinto

The young Stradivari part 2 – John Dilworth analyses the master's earliest instruments

Who taught Antonio Stradivari? John Dilworth looks at the evidence

The story of the 'Pawle, Benvenuto' Stradivari cello, a petite model from c. 1730

Alessandra Barabaschi charts the history of Stradivari's 'Lady Inchiquin' violin of 1711

One of the finest 17th-century Stradivari cellos: the 1689 ‘Archinto’

Stradivari Medici quintet part 3: the two instruments that left Florence

A mysterious commission: part 1 of a series on Stradivari’s ‘Medici’ Quintet, by Alessandra Barabaschi

Stradivari's earliest followers: part 1 of Dmitry Gindin's survey of Cremonese influence

John Dilworth continues his survey of the Stradivari workshop’s violas, part 2

John Dilworth examines Stradivari's violas and asks why he made so few, Part 1

James Ehnes talks about falling in love with the ‘Marsick’ Stradivari of 1715

The astonishingly well-preserved ‘Lady Blunt’ Stradivarius of 1721

An intriguing composite Strad owned by the Count Cesare di Castelbarco

The ‘Molitor’ Strad, the French socialite and the Napoleon General who gave the violin its...