Police had music for two violin owners` ears Thursday as they recovered a pair of 19th Century violins valued as high as $43,000 that had been missing since 1986. Police charged Juan Carlos Toranzo, ...

This unsettling and unusual disc offers a vision of Vivaldi that is worlds away from the comforting platitudes of FM radio. Even by the evolving standards of period-instrument performance, the Venice ...

Two valuable violins, stolen from the home of a Los Angeles Philharmonic musician, have been recovered in Paris, where the alleged thief was trying to sell them, authorities said Sunday. There is no ...

In Skylight Music Theatre's latest show, "Fiddler on the Roof," perhaps the most powerful piece of storytelling is truly ...

The eleventh Performers Platform Concert in the series of Valletta Lunchtime Concerts is a Two Violins in Concert with the participation of Marouska Attard and Chris Tanti. The concert, organised by ...

A 71-year-old violin maker has created two violins made of wood from uprooted pine trees in the tsunami-ravaged Rikuzentakata City in Iwate Prefecture. Muneyuki Nakazawa plans to give the instruments ...

This interview originally aired on April 21, 2021. We rebroadcast it on July 7, 2021. Gil Shaham/Eric Jacobsen and the Knights — Beethoven, Brahms: Violin Concertos (Canary Classics) Jump to CD ...

If you’ve ever watched an orchestra perform, you might have noticed a sea of violinists front and centre, bows rippling up and down in unison. They’re usually split into two sections – first violins ...

Heard a story once about Niccolo Paginini, the Italian violin prodigy who suffered from a grab-bag of maladies, that when his teeth began to fall out he’d use violin strings to hold them together. The ...

Distinguished pianist Clementa Cazan German will share the stage with world-renowned violinists Wai Mizutani and Claudius Cazan Oct. 29. Acclaimed violinist Claudius Cazan, together with his sister, ...

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Earlier this week, we brought you the story of a radiologist and two violin-makers, who used computed tomography (CT) imaging to create a copy of a 1704 Stradivarius violin. The instrument that they ...