The auction house Tarisio has gone public on the private sale of a bow to New York Philharmonic concertmaster Frank Huang. The bow was made in 1864 by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume’s best Parisian bowman, Pierre […]
From my monthly essay in The Critic (new issue out today) … Nothing in opera surpasses that single scenic blow to the seat of emotions. The effect is so visceral that I have seen cellists […]
Janine Jansen, Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky – Le Piano Symphonique, Lucerne (Photo: Philipp Schmidli, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester) Baroque music featured highly this year, Lawrence Cummings and the AAM used just eight singers for their moving version […]