Finding a Guarneri violin is needle in a haystack stuff. Only about 150 are known to exist and rarely become available to collectors. As luck would have it, however, one such stringed instrument will ...

A violin which was made almost three centuries ago has been sold at auction in New York for $9.44 million (£7.71 million). Made in 1731 by acclaimed Italian luthier, Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri ‘del ...

NEW YORK – When a Guarneri del Gesu violin known as the “Baltic” hits the auction block at Tarisio on March 15 to 16, bidders won’t be vying over its sound alone. “The Baltic is not just an instrument ...

At 24, Ray Ushikubo gets the rare honor of playing the Playfair violin made by one of the greatest violin makers of all time, Guarneri 'del Gesù,' in 1741.

When a Guarneri “del Gesù” violin known as the “Baltic” hits the auction block at Tarisio on March 15-16, bidders won’t be vying over its sound alone. “The Baltic is not just an instrument,” says ...

The 'Baltic' was hand-made circa 1731 by master luthier Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, the scion of one of the three great violin-making families in Cremona, Italy whose stringed instruments are among ...

After being stored under a bed for a half-century, a $16 million violin is now in the hands of Anne Akiko Meyers, who's recorded Vivaldi's vivid... The Soul Of The World's Most Expensive Violin The ...

A radiant, otherworldly sound, unique and inimitable: the legendary 18th-century Italian violin-maker Antonio Stradivari knew how to enchant the musical world with violin tones. Whether it is the ...

One of San Francisco's oldest and most distinguished musical denizens spends most of the year in protective custody, appearing in public only on rare occasions and even then surrounded by a cadre of ...

Jascha Heifetz's violin came out to play Sunday afternoon, and for once it didn't hog the spotlight. Instead, the high point of this chamber recital, presented by the San Francisco Symphony at the ...