Il Cannone

I have just bought the original DVD recording of virtuoso Shlomo Mintz's 1997 exquisite rendering of Niccolò Paganini's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1, in D major, Opus 6, on Paganini's famous Il Cannone ("The Canon") violin, which the master bequeathed to the city of Genoa.

Il Cannone Guarnerius

This instrument, made in Cremona by Guarneri del Gesù (1698-1744), the legendary Antonio Stradivari's main competitor, is an Italian national treasure and never travels without armed police escort and a multimillion dollar insurance policy.

Below is an excerpt, found on the web, of the mentioned performance: the third and last movement, a wonderful Rondo.