How do we know that the music we are listening to is being played according to the composers wishes? Fine if the composer is there in person and can direct or correct what he's hearing. But go back to the Baroque and surely it becomes guesswork. Violinist Daniel Hope's latest album Air is a biography of the baroque through the strings of a violin. He outlines the project, and talks also about his parallel writing career.

Daniel Hope - ein "europäischer" Geiger. Die biographischen Wurzeln des Briten reichen von Deutschland über Irland bis Südafrika. Schon als Kind wurde er von Yehudi Menuhin gefördert. Ihm zu Ehren spielt Hope heute Abend mit dem Chamber Orchestra of Europe bei den Ingolstädter Sommerkonzerten....

Daniel Hope is interviewed by John Schaefer for the WNYC Radio Station in New York city. He discusses his performance at the reopening of Alice Tully Hall with the Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, and performs Ravel "Kaddish" live in the studio.