Visit every week to read Norman Lebrecht's latest column. [Index] Why the fate of music hinges on a $20 million violin By Norman Lebrecht /
October 22, 2008 The best violin in London has been put up for sale in Chicago, a worrying sign of straitened times. The fiddle, a 1741 Guarnerius del Gesu, has a pedigree to die for. It was, for 11 years, the working instrument of the great Belgian ...