


Arthur Sullivan - Cello Concerto, (World Premiere Recording) - London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras, r.1986, EMI Classics.2, London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Charles Mackerras, r.1986, EMI Classics Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Yehudi Menuhin, r.1985, Philips Classics – chosen as the 'finest ever version’ by BBC Music Magazine and winner of ‘Best Classical Recording’ 1997 Brit Awards.Recordings made with the Barjansky Works with orchestra The Barjansky Stradivarius has reportedly been offered for sale by the violin expert Florian Leonhard.

Since then the Barjansky Stradivarius has been played by Lloyd Webber, who has made more than 30 award-winning recordings on the instrument, including a renowned version of Elgar Cello Concerto, conducted by Yehudi Menuhin.Ĭhapter Eight of Margaret Campbell's biography of Lloyd Webber, Married to Music, is called "The Barjansky" Strad. Itzhak Perlman bought the 1714 Soil Stradivari from Yehudi Menuhin for £600,000 in 1986 (equivalent to £1,870,341 in 2021). Ī comparable "Strad" (the "de Pawle") sold around that time for $650,000 in New York. It sold for a record price to British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber whose previous instrument was a Guadagnini of the 1700s. History īarjansky was the previous owner when the Cremonese cello came up for auction at Sotheby's in 1983. The Sotheby's 1983 catalogue describes the Barjansky Stradivarius as being 29 + 7⁄ 8 inches (76 cm) along the back, with a golden brown varnish. According to the Henley book he didn't really establish his cello model until round about 1707 at which time the cello was only first becoming established as a solo instrument." Description Dealers who know the cello think that it is certainly not so early as 1684 which is a good thing. It is listed there as the "Barjansky" Strad, 1736, the last cello he ever made. But before the sale I did some research on the instrument and found it listed rather erratically in Henley's book on Stradivari's instruments. The catalogue date is 1684 and the label inside the cello says 1684. In an interview with The Strad Julian Lloyd Webber said: Barjansky premiered the Delius Concerto on the instrument in Vienna in January 1923. Barjansky was the dedicatee of Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo which he performed on this instrument. The Barjansky is named after Russian cellist Alexandre Barjansky, who played the instrument during the first half of the 20th century. The Barjansky Stradivarius of c.1690 is an antique cello fabricated by the Italian Cremonese luthier Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737). Serge Barjansky and the Barjansky Stradivarius, in 1910
