Candid phone conversation with violinist, Andrew Manze who talks about his entry into playing Baroque music from studying the Classics. He also discusses techniques, influences and how musicians interpret their own or other's music.
Quite different from violinists I've heard interviews with over the years, Manze is very articulate and open to different styles of music without being full of himself. He mentions the great Stephane Grappelli of the legendary "Hot Club of France" with Django Reinhardt, well known, among others, for his improvisational techniques. Manze too, as the conversation reveals, likes to improvise select passages during his performances.
Unfortunately, the piece doesn't give the listener a taste of his playing style. An excerpt or two of music would have been great.

Andrew Manze is the English rock star Baroque violinist who's packing concert halls all over the world with his 1783 Joseph Gagliano violin. He's starting a US tour in late October/early November 2004 which is a news hook for this interview. Curiously it doesn't contain any music though the first track ends with a preview of a Vivaldi piece. A worthwhile introduction to the man who's been called "the wild child of the violin."