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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in The Strad January 2021 and String Courses Supplement.
Editor’s letter
ANGELA LYONS
W hen French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras finally returned to recording with close friends and colleagues following last year’s first European lockdown, he did so with an immen...
Contributors
TOMÁS COTIK
(Technique, page 80) studied with Ana Chumachenco and Shmuel Ashkenasi among others. He has a masters from Freiburg University of Music in Germany and an artist diploma fro...
SOUNDPOST
HELP OR HINDRANCE? In response to Andrew Dipper’s poetic and romantic observations on tools (‘The Lost Art of Cremonese Violin Archings’, October 2020): we should recognise that good tools and unde...
A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME
QUEYRAS’S CELLOS AND BOWS WIN JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS’S NEW BEETHOVEN RECORDING ‘Last year I was given a Montagnana cello to try,’ says Queyras. ‘My whole life I had dreamed of a Montagnana. When I got ...
SECRETS OF THE ‘MESSIAH’
‘MESSIAH’ PHOTO TUCKER DENSLEY/ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM. CT SCAN FRANCESCO PIASENTINI @ TEC EUROLAB
The date was Monday 5 September 2016 and Francesco Piasentini, a violin maker with a PhD in me...
GEORGE NEIKRUG MEMORIES OF A LEGEND
In early March of 2020, during the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) conference, some of George Neikrug’s former cello students gathered to share their reminiscences. He had died o...