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Ray Chen and Daniel Jang perform Wieniawski's Etude Caprice, op.18 no.4
Classical musicians are actually really funny people - they are often just too shy or intimidated to show their real selves to the audience. So I just try to show what I am like as a person'Virtuoso violinist Ray Chen joined Daniel Jang to perform Wieniawski's Etude Caprice ...
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Violin accident: what to do when your bow flies out of your hand
Violinist Sara Delić loses control of her bow - which threatens to go flying - during a performance of Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen.Watch: A bow hair disasterWatch: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt in page-turning disaster
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Cellist Sol Gabetta performs - and sings - at the Proms 2016
Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta performs Peteris Vasks' Gramata cellam – Dolcissimo at the First Night of the Proms 2016 as an encore. The work includes the opportunity to hear Gabetta sing, while playing her instrument. Read: 'There is a tiger inside my instrument': Sol Gabetta talks about ...
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Violinist Itzhak Perlman records Fiddler on the Roof
Itzhak Perlman records a special bonus track for the 2016 Broadway cast recording of Fiddler on the Roof, released on Broadway Records. Perlman’s bonus track, titled ‘Excerpts from Fiddler on the Roof’, is arranged by film composer John Williams. Read: Violinist Itzhak Perlman to perform on Fiddler ...
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Julia Fischer performs De Beriot's Ninth Violin Concerto, aged 8
An eight-year-old Julia Fischer performs De Beriot's Ninth Violin Concerto in 1992.
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Capuçon brothers - violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier - perform together at the BBC Proms
The Capuçon brothers - violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier - perform Handel-Halvorsen's Passacaglia as an encore at the BBC Proms in London's Royal Albert Hall in 2011. Read: ‘As a musician you never finish learning,’ says cellist Gautier Capuçon Watch: Gautier Capuçon performs Thaïs Meditation at the ...
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Violinist Hilary Hahn on owning the stage
You can't be afraid when you go on stage. If you're afraid you'll just be replicating what you think other people want you to do - and replicating is never the way to convince people you know what you're doing.' Hilary Hahn speaks about performing on stage ...
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Cellist performs Flight of the Bumblebee as endpin fails
Cellist Roberto Trainini manages to continue playing, not missing a single beat during his rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, as his cello endpin slowly slips.Read: Finding the perfect cello endpin † and how to stop it slippingWatch: Shostakovich cello tailpiece explosion
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Sol Gabetta's cello transformed by light show for BBC Proms
Cellist Sol Gabetta has teamed with 59 Productions to create 'Cello', a short film commissioned by the BBC Proms. The film features Gabetta performing the opening of Elgar's Cello Concerto as her 300-year-old Gofriller instrument is transformed by a series of animations which respond to and evolve ...
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Violinist Maxim Vengerov on making one violin sound like three in Bach
I want to hear two or three violinists at one time'Maxim Vengerov gives a violin masterclass on the Fugue of Bach's Sonata No.1, recorded at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The student is Nasrin Rashidova.The full 45-minute video is available to buy as a download or ...
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Cellist Frans Helmerson on bringing out the separate colour of each string
I love the specific colour of each string - it's not always about making the sound as equalised as possible. Each string has a different voice.'Kronberg Academy professor Frans Helmerson gives a cello masterclass on Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, recorded at the International Musicians' Seminar, Prussia Cove. The student ...
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Korean tourist joins Italian street performers for impromptu jam session
Korean double bassist Jun-Hyuk Choi was travelling with friends around Florence, Italy when he spotted some local street performers. He asked the bass player if he could borrow his instrument and proceeded to perform the jazz standard Autumn Leaves with the surprised musicians - much to the delight ...
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Shostakovich cello tailpiece explosion
During a rehearsal with the Kislovodsk Philharmonic Orchestra, cellist Alexander Buzlov's energetic rendition of Shostakovich's First Concerto is too much for his tailpiece, which flies off. Buzlov continues the rehearsal with a borrowed instrument some time later.Watch: A violin bow hair disasterWatch: Violist Yuri Bashmet in tailpiece ...
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Violinist Maxim Vengerov performs Komitas for Armenian memorial concert
Maxim Vengerov gives an emotional performance of Komitas for 'With You Armenia' - a series of concerts commemorating the centenary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, organised in collaboration with the 'Yerevan Perspectives' International Music Festival, which took place in Brussels in April 2015. Vengerov performs the work, ...
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Violinist Midori performs Brahms Violin Concerto
Midori performs Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta on 13 February 2013. Antje Weithaas continues The Strad’s marked-up sheet music series in association with Henle Verlag with the Brahms Concerto's first movement – giving bowings, fingerings and ideas for interpretation in ...
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Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter performs Schindler's List theme
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter performs John Williams's Schindler's List theme in November 2015. Watch: Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter films her performance with a head cam Watch: Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter performs on Letterman
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Strauss Tritsch-Tratsch Polka performed by double bass orchestra
The Brno Double Bass Orchestra performs an arrangement of Strauss's Tritsch-Tratsch Polka by Wells Cathedral School tutor David Heyes in 2009.Heyes writes about creating a resonant double bass tone in The Strad's July 2016 issue – download on desktop computer or through The Strad App.Read: Too few conductors ...
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Musicians respond to Brexit with Beethoven performance in London
The night after the UK's EU referendum, a group of musicians and singers from around Europe and the UK, who had never performed together before, played Beethoven's Ode To Joy live outside St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.Video © 2016 Apple and Biscuit RecordingsRead: Association of British Orchestras warns ...
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Violins made with spiders' silk played in duet
A violin made from a composite material including spiders’ silk has been developed at Imperial College London.Luca Alessandrini, a postgraduate from the Dyson School of Design Engineering, has made a prototype instrument from the material, which features three strands of golden silk, spun by an Australian Golden Orb ...