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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs Schindler's List conducted by John Williams
Violinist Itzhak Perlman performs the theme music to Schindler's List live in concert conducted by composer John Williams. Watch an interview with Itzhak Perlman on working with John Williams. Read Itzhak Perlman's blog on practising. Read a special interview with the great virtuoso in celebration of his ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs on Sesame Street
Violinist Itzhak Perlman performs with the puppet Telly in a classic episode of Sesame Street from 1980. Read Itzhak Perlman's blog on optimum practice length. Read a special interview with the great virtuoso in celebration of his 70th birthday in The Strad's August 2015 issue, out now. ...
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ArticleItzhak Perlman performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Here's violinist Itzhak Perlman in a classic performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy. Read Itzhak Perlman's blog on optimum practice length. Read a special interview with the great virtuoso in celebration of his 70th birthday in The Strad's August 2015 ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman on working with John Williams on Schindler's List
In Schindler's List there were many places where there was no music at all - and that made it so much more dramatic and meaningful when the music began' Violinist Itzhak Perlman discusses working with film composer John Williams on Schindler's List and Fiddler on the Roof. ...
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NewsThe Strad August 2015 issue is out now
As he celebrates his 70th birthday, violinist Itzhak Perlman talks about empowering the next generation of string players
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman's first encounter with Jascha Heifetz
Your Symphonie Espagnole is very nice, but I would like to hear some scales...' Violinist Itzhak Perlman remembers his first meeting with the great Jascha Heifetz when he played to him as a 14-year-old student at the Juilliard School in New York. Watch Jascha Heifetz put students ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs Wieniawski at the age of 14
A 14-year-old Itzhak Perlman gives a sensational performance of the third movement of Wieniawski's Second Violin Concerto on US television. Watch Perlman at the age of 13 performing the third movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto on the Ed Sullivan Show. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs Bazzini’s Dance of the Goblins
Itzhak Perlman gives a buoyant performance of Bazzini's Dance of the Goblins in Russia. Watch Maxim Vengerov perform Dance of the Goblins in Amsterdam in 1994. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman on building a career in music
The most important concert date you will ever have is your second. Securing one concert is fine, but being asked back is the key!' Violinist Itzhak Perlman talks about being diagnosed with Polio, winning competitions and building and sustaining a career. Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleItzhak Perlman talks about Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
There are two types of difficulty: technical difficulty, which you can solve when you practise, and then, of course, discomfort. The Tchaikovsky is uncomfortable to play - no matter how much you practise it.' Itzhak Perlamn talks about Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and demonstrates some passages. Watch Perlman talking ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs the Devil's Trill Sonata
Violinist Itzhak Perlman demonstrates impressive ornamenting skills in Giuseppe Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata. Discover 7 ways to improve your trills from The Strad's archive. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman answers student questions
I only get nervous when I suffer a memory lapse. That's when my real creative powers are at work - I'm writing new music and it's not always good!' In 1982 violinist Itzhak Perlman visited the Collegiate School in New York and gave frank and often humorous ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman gives a Russian masterclass
Whether you like it or not, a masterclass is not just for the poor person playing † I say poor because there is so much pressure involved † but also for the audience. If you become too technical, you have lost them' † violinist Itzhak Perlman gives ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman on different playing characteristics
Violinist Itzhak Perlman gives a masterclass on achieving different characteristics in performance - and demonstrates 'heavy' and then 'funny' performances of the opening of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman talks about his large hands
My hands are rather big for a violinist so my big, fat fingers have to struggle the further I move up the instrument' Itzhak Perlman talks about how hand size relates to technical challenges on the violin and demonstrates by performing sections of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto Finale. ...
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ArticleItzhak Perlman discusses Beethoven's Violin Concerto
This is one of the most difficult pieces to play. It's a really simple piece with lots of scales. So there is nothing to hide behind.' Itzhak Perlman talks about overcoming the technical difficulties of Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Read about other leading string players as tutors in ...
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NewsVideo: Violinist Itzhak Perlman campaigns for universal polio vaccination
The artist contracted the disease when he was four years old
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman on vibrato
'One of my pet peeves is vibrato, the most underused tool for music-making' Violinist Itzhak Perlman, who is interviewed in The Strad's July 2014 issue, talks about vibrato. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman on practising
'If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly. If you learn it quickly, you forget it almost immediately' Violinist Itzhak Perlman, who is interviewed in The Strad's July 2014 issue, answers questions about practice. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
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ArticleItzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante
Violinist Itzhak Perlman, who is interviewed in The Strad's July 2014 issue, performs Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, K364 with violist Pinchas Zukerman. Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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