In this video, filmed on 1 December 2017 at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Aizuri Quartet perform Beethoven’s op.133 Grosse Fuge.
The Aizuri Quartet, which just won the $100,000 M-Prize competition, is string quartet in residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2017/18 season.
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‘Spiral Sequences is a string quartet performed in two movements,’ writes composer Jack Frerer. ‘The first, the shorter of the two, is frantic and pulse-driven, carried by momentum generated by spiraling 16th note patterns and repeated ostinatos. It presents fragments of a sequence-like pattern,
In this video taken during a Memphis Symphony Orchestra rehearsal, the entire violin section surprises soloist Tai Murray by joining in with her solo part in the finale. Chicago-born Tai Murray is a former BBC New Generation Artist and concertmaster of the UK-based Chineke Orchestra. Watch:
Alena Baeva, who won the Wieniawski Violin Competition aged 16 in 2001, writes about her love for one of the lesser known gems of the violin repertoire
From ABC Classic FM comes this video of Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska performing ‘Summertime’ from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
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