The outstanding British-Hungarian violinist György Pauk has owned and played the Massart Strad of 1714 almost all his musical life.
He hates to see it idle so, he tells us, ‘I have decided that I want that this great fiddle should be heard again hence I have loaned it to Julia Pusker’.
Hungarian born, Pusker studied at the Royal College of Music and is now based in Berlin.
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Kim Tae-yeon has won the 12th Witold Lutoslawski International Cello Competition in Warsaw. She takes home 20,000 Euros and a fistful of engagements after triumphing in Lutoslaski’s Grave, for concerto. Second and third were Poles. […]
Obituary by Alastair Macaulay: The enchanting, generous, warm, and devout Marianne Preger Simon (1929-2024) has died. She danced for and with Merce Cunningham well before there was any Cunningham Dance Company. In 1949, finding that […]
The French violinist Renaud Capucon carried the Olympic torch at Niort yesterday on its latest leg towards Paris. The post Violinist carries torch appeared first on Slippedisc.
.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "BBC Proms: Bach's Mass writ large as Arcangelo give us choral bravura at Royal Albert Hall")
