‘On paper, it should have been a match made in heaven’ – Julian Lloyd Webber on his struggle to find the right cello

Julian Lloyd Webber

The British cellist remembers bumps in the road that led him to remortgage his house to pay for the c.1690 ‘Barjansky’ Stradivari

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