Bell prolongs
OrchestrasThe violinist Joshua Bell has been renewed as music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields to August 2028.
He says: ‘It is an honour to announce this extension during the centenary celebration of Sir Neville Marriner, a man who not only helped launch my own recording career but who, over the course of half a century, fostered the Academy’s exceptional standard of excellence in orchestral playing that I strive to uphold today.’
He’ll turn 57 this year. I remember little Joshie when he was 15. He certainly found the fountain of youth.
Likewise, his playing hasn’t matured much either
meeeOOOOOOwww
Just another bitter viola player…..
he’s a viola player ??
He’s certainly bitter.
Great Bell prolongs…not Bell ends.
“He says: ‘It is an honour…”
As an American, he most certainly did not say “honour” but “honor”
Sir Neville Marriner rings a bell.
He’s not allowed near children anymore i don’t think
ASMF needs a real conductor, or they should go conductor-less like the Orpheus.
I have always found Joshua Bell’s hyperventilating violin playing style hard to stomach. It’s like someone who talks a lot but says very little.
A lot of Bell air?
well Marriner was a violinist with the LSO
I agree. Hyperventilating is a good phrase. He just ain’t got it.
Do they record anymore? Along with a few other chamber orchestras, they were the last bulwark against the horror of “period instrument” groups. The peak of classical and baroque music-making. Italy had the most such groups, I can’t recall their exact names, but they began with I.
If you mean the Italian chamber orchestra that Claudio Scimone conducted. Yes they were great! They made some great opera recording with soprano Cecilia Gasdia.