Stradivarius violin takes spotlight at Brussels concert

Printed on: Oct 17, 2025 10:46 pm IST MUSIC-VIOLIN-STRADIVARI:Stradivarius violin takes highlight at Brussels live performance By Milan Berckmans Stradivarius violin takes highlight at Brussels live performance BRUSSELS -A 300-year-old Stradivari violin valued at round $16 million will take centre stage on Friday at a live performance in Brussels carried out by Armenian Sergey Khachatryan with the Belgian Nationwide Orchestra. The violin, famend for its extraordinary tonal vary and historic significance, was made round 1724 by Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari in his hometown Cremona, and was lately purchased by a benefactor of the philanthropic Stretton Society, which loans out distinctive devices. “It’s a enormous pleasure to have the ability to create that relationship between me as an artist and the instrument … such an unbelievable instrument with such a lovely sound and complexity,” mentioned Khachatryan, who’s entrusted with the Stradivarius for the subsequent 10 years. On the Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts on Friday, he’ll interpret the technically demanding Brahms Violin Concerto. “Brahms’ music is such a mirrored image of magnificence, in nature and in addition in human emotions,” Khachatryan instructed Reuters. “When you’ve got such an unbelievable violin, you may present that.” The instrument is among the many highest valued of a number of hundred remaining Stradivari violins, which might promote for thousands and thousands of {dollars}, with probably the most sought-after coming from Stradivari’s 1700-1720 “Golden Interval”. Often known as the “Kiesewetter” – after Nineteenth-century German violinist Christoph Gottfried Kiesewetter – it has been performed by main violinists, together with Augustin Hadelich and Maxim Vengerov, who used it on the Grammy Awards ceremony in 1996. “There’s really a really stunning photograph with Maxim Vengerov, Sting and Elton John subsequent to the instrument,” mentioned Stephan Jansen, co-founder of the Stretton Society. This text was generated from an automatic information company feed with out modifications to textual content. Information / Life-style / Stradivarius violin takes highlight at Brussels live performance See Much less