Delighted to team up with Peter Sheppard Skaerved, John Dilworth, Barbara Meyer and Luca Alessandri to discuss the 1709 Viotti Stradivari for a study day at the Royal Academy of Music in September 2016. There wasn’t much more that I could add to John Dilworth’s survey of the instrument, so I spoke about the Enlightenment instead to investigate Viotti’s soundworld and the advances in musical sound that gave Stradivari violins their modern significance.
Violins and Violinists 