Daniele Rustioni was a 10-year-old in the La Scala children’s chorus when he saw Riccardo Muti for the first time. “I want to be him,” Rustioni recalled thinking. “I was very how can say? loud as a kid. He said: `You should be a conductor because you are very extroverted.’” With his 40th…
Philippe Quint signed his name on the "heart" of the violin; Augustin Hadelich signed it below where the tailpiece will go. Near that is the signature of Joshua Bell, by the right center bout. Ray Chen signed it near the right shoulder, underneath the fingerboard, "to guide all the E-string passages, in the highest moments."
In all, an impressive group of 27 violin soloists from all over the world have signed their names to the inside of a modern copy of Niccolò Paganini s 1743 "Il Cannone" Guarneri del Gesú violin. Starting this week, the violin is being auctioned by Tarisio, in a fundraiser for
Mozart’s sublime music is deceptively difficult to play. Conductor Roger Norrington explains how the composer’s own father helped rewire brains and eradicate wobble
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