Julian Rachlin was performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto on his beautiful Stradivarius violin with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra when he stopped the show with this jaw-dropping cadenza ...

Saulo Dantas-Barreto is a renowned violin maker who crafts and repairs instruments for string players the world over. But what’s extra-remarkable is how this creator also swaps a luthier’s chisel for ...

A charming book reconstructs the European wanderings over three centuries, from Cremona to the Black Sea, of a battered, beautiful violin Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an ...

Over the last dozen years, the German violinist Christian Tetzlaff has become one of the most highly regarded violinists of his generation, and his performances have been praised as much for the ...