All cello articles – Page 2
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NewsBulgarians and Italians take top awards at ANLAI violin making competition
The contest saw a hundred instruments by luthiers from ten countries assessed, with the award ceremony taking place in the historic Church of Santa Maria della Neve
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The Strad Calendar 2022: Giuseppe Guarneri ‘filius Andreae’ cello 1715 ‘ex Navarra’
The Guarneri ‘filius Andreae’ must be the most impressive Cremonese cello in terms of maker’s marks
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The Strad Calendar 2022: Hendrik Jacobs cello 1696
One of the very few cellos made by Hendrik Jacobs himself, and the only Dutch instrument in the Calendar
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Philharmonie de Paris announces lutherie competition
The contest will be held next January for students and professional instrument makers
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High school luthier creates cello for Arts Without Boundaries
The cello will be provided to a student in need of a quality instrument
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Obituary: professor and cellist Tao Song 1932-2021
The cellist was a long-standing pedagogue at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing
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Steven Isserlis shares his memories of cellist Marius May
‘A soloist’s career didn’t suit him, but those of us who attended his concerts will never forget them’
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‘We are going to become more and more parochial’: Julian Lloyd Webber hits out at post-Brexit visa rules
The British cellist said it will become ’really difficult’ for musicians ’to carve out a great international career’
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason loaned 1700 Gofriller cello
The instrument ‘presents a kaleidoscope of tonal qualities’ and ’has an uncanny capacity to respond’ according to the cellist
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Yo-Yo Ma answers Twitter users’ questions on all things cello
Erudite quick-fire queries from the finest minds of social media
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Book review: The Piedmontese Violin Makers in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Alberto Giordano reviews Claudio Amighetti’s magnum opus on the luthiers of north-west Italy
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Live-streamed concert review: Steven Isserlis (cello) Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano)
Tim Homfray watches the performance at London’s Wigmore Hall on 2 February 2021, from the comfort of his own home
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Cellist Tanja Tetzlaff receives Glenn Gould Bach Fellowship
The €100,000 award will go towards a film project centred on Bach’s Cello Suites
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Which cello strings? Steven Isserlis, Alisa Weilerstein and others tell us what their choices are and why
Finding the ideal combination of strings is a process that can take a lifetime. Here, some of the world’s leading cellists – and two up-and-coming chamber musicians on the competition circuit – discuss their choices
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New Jacqueline du Pré opera set to tour
’We’ll Never Let You Down’ brings together music by three Dutch composers
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The Strad Calendar 2021: Giovanni Battista Rogeri cello 1695
The arching of the Rogeri is flat, unlike the bulbous forms of most of his contemporary makers
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The Strad Calendar 2021; Nicolas Lupot cello 1823
The Lupot cello is a wonderful piece of controlled craftsmanship, and bears his personal signature on the back
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The Strad Calendar 2021: Francesco Rugeri cello c.1680
This poplar-backed cello is clearly very similar in form and modelling to Amati patterns
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I Musici cellist Francesco Strano has died
The musician, 80, was also known as a tutor at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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The Strad Calendar 2021: G.B. Guadagnini cello 1783
Formerly owned by Rostropovich, the fully arched model provides great depth of tone
