For 70 minutes one evening last week, an audience in Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall watched a short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy man in white tie and tails play a 1737 Guarneri del Ges٠violin. In that time ...
The Isaac Stern of the 18th century was a German violinist named Johann Pisendel. Vivaldi, Telemann and Albinoni all dedicated concertos to him, and Bach thought he was swell. The period-instrument ...