"Mr. Bowes was passionate and fiery on his own terms, which were thoroughly musical. He has an excellent range of color, from bleached tones to a full earthiness, and he throws off double stops and harmonics with aplomb. So, though, do all virtuosos. Things that more distinguish Mr Bowes are his rhythmic suppleness and his command of subtle microtonal tuning as a way of pointing accents or inflecting the line... Bartók's music also brought out his sense of rhythm, his way of bending back from the regular beat, with all the pent-up energy of a sapling bending in the wind."