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‘Bien chanté’: Violinist Cristian de Sá on Ravel’s Sonate op. Posthume

6 June 2025

2025 marks the 150th anniversary of Ravel’s birth. Along with pianist Keigo Mukawa, the violinist Cristian de Sá presents a performance of Ravel’s Posthumous Sonata, plus historical and personal insights on the work

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Jack Liebeck and Alexander Sitkovetsky chat about Arnold’s double violin concerto
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Daniel Kurganov has remastered the entirety of Kogan’s performance of Paganini Violin Concerto no.1
Tommy Mesa performs Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1
The cellist appears alongside the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and its music director Stuart Malina
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Verdi’s La Forza del Destino for double bass and piano
Double bassist Théotime Voisin and pianist Maurice van Schoonhoven perform an arrangement of the popular opera overture in a tribute to the bel canto tradition
Bach’s Fugue from Violin Sonata no.2… played on double bass!
The work has been arranged and recorded for double bass by James Oesi for his latest single release

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‘Bien chanté’: Violinist Cristian de Sá on Ravel’s Sonate op. Posthume

‘Bien chanté’: Violinist Cristian de Sá on Ravel’s Sonate op. Posthume

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Perfectly poised pizzicato: Louise McMonagle performs ‘Salat Babilya’ for solo cello

Yevgeny Kutik performs Dvořák’s ‘Going Home’ for solo violin

‘More powerful and relevant than ever’ - violinist Charles Yang performs a moving encore

Anzû Quartet performs Ken Thomson’s ‘Uneasy’

New video: Abel Selaocoe performs Takamba

Violin x gaming: Esther Abrami performs music from Final Fantasy XV

Ariel Quartet performs Beethoven String Quartet op.18, no.5

New video: ‘Dear Mountains’ by Karen Ouzounian and Lembit Beecher

Bryan Cheng performs Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto no.1

Jack Liebeck and Alexander Sitkovetsky chat about Arnold’s double violin concerto

Cellist Philipp Schupelius performs an improv-inspired cadenza

‘No Escape’: violinist Christine Bernsted performs music by Lera Auerbach

Gabriel Schwabe and Nicholas Rimmer perform Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no.5

Violin and dance combine in new video, ‘Doppelgänger Dances’

Watch: a 1981 Leonid Kogan Paganini performance with restored audio and video

Tommy Mesa performs Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1

Watch: Philharmonia Orchestra musicians play a festive string quintet

Watch: New violin-playing robot specialises in Indian music

Verdi’s La Forza del Destino for double bass and piano

Bach’s Fugue from Violin Sonata no.2… played on double bass!

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