Inside the concert hall of the Violin Museum in Cremona, Italy, Antonio de Lorenzi plays the prelude from Bach's Partita No. 3 on a Stradivarius violin. Cremona is the town where master luthier ...

The instruments achieve their sweetness and brilliance by mimicking aspects of the human voice, study says The violins made by the Italian masters Andrea Amati and Antonio Stradivari are celebrated as ...

IN MAY, a Dutch organist named Pieter van Dijk performed a selection of baroque pieces in front of an audience of some 50 people. The Netherlands is famous for its organs and organists—local recitals ...

Think of Italy, and you think of food, wine, cheese, and football. For Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi, music is added to the list. Growing up in Atessa, in Southeastern Italy, it was part of the family.

It's been four decades since Bernard Neumann left Montreal for Cremona, Italy, to study violin making. The now-renowned luthier, as a violin-maker is called, still draws daily inspiration from his ...