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.
From the late medieval period and right the way through the Renaissance we see an abundance of images of Apollo and Orpheus playing the lyre,
Jacques Besson was born a protestant around 1540 in Grenoble. In 1559 he published an alchemical book about how to extract oils and waters from
For six months in 2025, Hogarth’s House in Chiswick is hosting a wonderful exhibition in collaboration with St Mary’s University in West London. It’s a
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