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 GesÙ violin. 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 ...

At the Edinburgh Festival, three famed fiddlers were unable to decide who should take which part in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Three Violins last week, ended up by drawing lots. Isaac Stern and Yehudi ...

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