Lev's violin: a story of music, culture, and Italian adventure

Prelude

First movement. Child of many fathers; Cremona and the modern violin

Musical people; How violins became stars of the musical world

Pilgrim in Cremona; The great violin-making dynasties

Message from the mountains; The ancient trade in violin wood

Second movement. Church music; A chapter in the life of Lev's violin

Mood music; The lives of church violins and their musicians

Political instruments; Violins at the Medici Court in Florence

Cozio; The world's first violin collector and connoisseur

Tarisio; The beginning of an international trade in Cremona violins

Third movement. Old Italians; Violin dealing for a modern age

Little Italys; The diaspora of Italians and their violins

Musica popolare; Roma fiddles and Italian folk music

Fourth movement. Twice looted; The fate of old Italians during the second world war

Full circle; Revival in Cremona

Violin A & E; The difference between copies and fakes

Smuggled; Lev's violin in the USSR

All about rings; A dendrochronology test and its result

Coda.