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Take a Bow

Peter Day visits Cremona in northern Italy to see how a centuries-old centre of violin making can survive in a fast-changing musical world.

Thanks to great craftsmen such as the Amati family and Antonio Stradivari, the city of Cremona in northern Italy has been a global centre of violins for five centuries. Peter Day finds out how tradition, marketing and years of training enable Cremonese instrument makers to survive in a fast changing musical world.

Producer: Caroline Bayley.

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30 minutes

Last on

Sun 31 Aug 2014 21:30

Contributors to this programme

Massimo Ardoli

International Violin Making School of Cremona

Christopher Kurz

student International Violin Making School of Cremona

Philip Ihle

Ihle Violins, London

Stefano Trabucchi

Master Violin Maker, Cremona

Giorgio Grisales

Master Violin Maker, Cremona and business director, Antonio Stradivari Consortium of Cremona Violin Makers

Edgar Russ

Master Violin Maker, Cremona

Mathijs Heyligers

Master Violin Maker, Cremona

Paulo Bodini

Chairman, Museum of the Violin Cremona

Broadcasts

  • Thu 28 Aug 2014 20:30
  • Sun 31 Aug 2014 21:30

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