New York Times 3 Oct 2000
"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."