Top ten georgeous female fiddle players of all time...

[pastoralguy]

For me...

1) Ida Haendel

2) Ida Haendal

3) Ida Haendel

4) Ida Handel

5) Ida Haendel

6) Ida Haendel

7) Isa Haendel

8) Anne Sophie-Mutter

9) Nicola Benedetti

10) Ida Haendel

Any other suggestions...?

[johnb]

Janine Jansen

[Tapiola]

Lara St John
Isabelle Faust

[Don Petter]

For me...

1) Ida Haendel

2) Ida Haendal

3) Ida Haendel

4) Ida Handel

5) Ida Haendel

6) Ida Haendel

7) Isa Haendel

8) Anne Sophie-Mutter

9) Nicola Benedetti

10) Ida Haendel

Any other suggestions...?

Well - they're your rules, but none of them are called George?

[amateur51]

Well - they're your rules, but none of them are called George?

Only fiddler called George I can think of is Mr Soros

[Ferretfancy]

Amateur51

Well, there's always Joshua Bell!
How about gorgeous boy pianists? Pogorelich? Stephen Osborne? Anderszewski?

[amateur51]

Amateur51

Well, there's always Joshua Bell!
How about gorgeous boy pianists? Pogorelich? Stephen Osborne? Anderszewski?

Some fine nominations there, Ferret - talented totty all.

Mr Pogorelich is rather more mature than when first we saw him but still looking good and playing interestingly if this review is anything to go by:

http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/eif09-pogorelich-0909.shtml

I attended an RFH concert a ciuple of seasons ago in which Gustavo Dudamel and the Philharmonia accompanied Anderszewski in Brahms piano concerto no1. Afterwards PA played some solo JS Bach as an encore - I was a very happy bunny

[3rd Viennese School]

Isa Haendel.
Ida's sister?

3VS

[Curalach]

The late, and very lovely, Iona Brown.
(She once asked me to take my trousers off, but we won't go into that here.)

[Don Petter]

Isa Haendel.
Ida's sister?

3VS

Correct. She's the one who lives in Jersey to avoid tax.

[scottycelt]

As an Italian-Scot myself ... well, third generation ... it would just have to be the lovely young Nicola.

One could hardly get any more drop-dead gorgeous, divinely blessed with such an immaculate physical and intellectual blood mix ..

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Are we running out of things to talk about if we have to resort to such facile threads?

[amateur51]

Are we running out of things to talk about if we have to resort to such facile threads?

Some have been arguing that the tipping point arrived some while ago, EA

Again I say - Your Top Ten Sandwiches!

[MickyD]

For us "authentick" enthusiasts, it was always pleasing to the eye to see the very fanciable violinist Miles Golding in various English baroque bands - is he still around, I wonder?

[french frank]

The late, and very lovely, Iona Brown.

Yes, and ever since her very sad demise it's felt very tasteless to make the joke - Iona Brown, violin