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 ...

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 ...

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 ...