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SECRETS OF THE ‘MESSIAH’
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CT SCANNING THE ‘MESSIAH’
SECRETS OF THE ‘MESSIAH’
In 2016 the ‘Messiah’ Stradivari was the subject of an extensive CT scanning project. Francesco Piasentini and Gregg Alf examine the resulting data, discovering repair work in the neck, and attempt to determine how it had originally been set
‘MESSIAH’ PHOTO TUCKER DENSLEY/ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM. CT SCAN FRANCESCO PIASENTINI @ TEC EUROLAB
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Recording Beethoven’s ‘Triple’ Concerto last June allowed French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras to step back into near normality, among colleagues and friends. He tells Pauline Harding about recording at a social distance, the importance of musical ‘family’, and why working with living composers has helped him to find contemporary relevance in music from every era
GEORGE NEIKRUG MEMORIES OF A LEGEND
Cellist George Neikrug, who died in 2019 at the age of 100, was a celebrated performer and orchestral principal. However, his skills as a pedagogue were second to none, writes University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Benjamin Whitcomb, who has gathered personal recollections from fellow former students
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME
For Renaud Capuçon, recording Elgar’s Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle was a dream come true – and one that he couldn’t allow to be derailed by Covid-19’s lockdown restrictions, as he tells Charlotte Gardner
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