Video: Stradivari Quartet a Rare Treat

November 15, 2007

The Stradivari quartet plays exclusively on some of the world's best and oldest string instruments, on loan from a Swiss foundation.

A Stradivari violin — Stradivaris have sold for as much as three million eurosImage: AP

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Stradivari Quartet

Eine echte Stradivari ist eine Rarität, beinahe unbezahlbar. Ende des 17./Anfang des 18.Jahrhunderts schuf der legendäre Geigenbaumeister Antonio Stradivari aus Italien etwa 11oo Streichinstrumente, davon erhalten sind heute nur noch 650. Vier Stradivaris in einem Streichquartett - das ist deshalb eine richtige Sensation und war bis zu diesem Jahr auch einmalig, mit dem 1969 gegründeten Tokyo String Quartett aus New York. Seit diesem Sommer hat aber auch Europa eine solche Sensation. Das Stradivari-Quartett aus Zürich in der Schweiz. Wir haben die vier Musiker in Berlin getroffen:

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