All Video articles – Page 15
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VideoWorking from home: members of the Villiers Quartet together in isolation
Carmen Flores and Tamaki Higashi of the Villiers Quartet make the best of the current situation, performing Bach’s Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772.
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Cellist Laura van der Heijden talks about performance nerves
The British musician discusses how best to tackle and overcome a difficult issue for so many players
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Kronos Quartet performs digital world premiere
The four players, accompanied by vocalist Monk Hierotheos, perform ‘Antennae: A Fragment’ by Aleksandra Vrebalov
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Working from home: Slovak cellist Jozef Lupták mixes Bach, improvisation and singing
The Slovak cellist Jozef Lupták, artistic director of the Konvergenice festival in Bratislava, blends Bach, improvisation and singing
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Bach’s Badinerie in a Parking Lot
In their own spin on ‘Quarantine Sessions’, flautist Zacharias Tarpagkos and cellist Alex Botinis (from the Greek National Opera and the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra respectively) perform Bach’s Badinerie in a parking lot.
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An interview with luthier Renato Scrollavezza
The violin maker, who died in 2019, was one of the leading figures of Italian violin making in the 20th century
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Homespun Miniatures by Alex Woolf
As part of ‘At Home with LMP’ , the online initiative launchedthree weeks ago, the London Mozart Players is releasing a series of ‘Homespun Miniatures’ written by award-winning young composer Alex Woolf, the first of which had its premiere on Channel 4 News last week. Watch it here. The ...
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Working from home: violinist Peter Biely plays Falla to his own guitar accompaniment
The Slovak violinist Peter Biely plays Falla’s/Kreisler’s ’Spanish Dance’ with his own improvised guitar accompaniment
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Working from home: UriPoste Jukebox
Locked down in Philadelphia, violinist Elena Urioste and her pianist husband Tom Poster invited people on social media to send in requests for pieces they could arrange and film themselves playing. Here, as a belated 21st birthday present for cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who asked if we might arrange some ...
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Working from home: Augustin Hadelich
The German-American violinist plays both the violin and piano parts of Kreisler’s Liebesfreud. The recording was made on 6 April 2020 in Hadelich’s home during the coronavirus lockdown. Hadelich writes: ’Here is “Liebesfreud” by Fritz Kreisler, one of his most joyful pieces. I love the line in the piano ...
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Working from home: Kronos Quartet introduces ‘Ask Kronos Anything’
David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt and Sunny Yang from the Kronos Quartet introduce ‘Ask Kronos Anything’, a new series in which they answer questions from the public online.
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Working from home: the Kanneh-Mason family
A video introduced by the Kanneh-Mason sisters in which they describe their daily routine before cutting to a cello and violin duet between 20-year-old Sheku and his 22-year-old brother Braimah. The video finishes with a piano performance from 23-year-old Isata.
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Yo-Yo Ma and Youth Music Culture Guangdong perform Bach
Ma is artistic director of the annual training programme, which takes place in Guangzhou, China
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Violinist plays classical music for South Korea hospital patients
Won Hyung-joon performed Bach/Gounod’s Ave Maria just outside the hospital room occupied by a family of coronavirus patients
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Live-streamed concert by the Echo Ensemble
The London-based group is running a series of concerts every Wednesday evening at 7.30pm
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Hand puppets play the cello
From the cellist Katie De La Mare (performer on this video): ‘So I’m stuck in a room with a cello and a bunch of puppets. This was only a matter of time… 😂 (Thanks to Roxanne Scott for filming and screaming!)’ Songs played: Theme from Jaws Tarantella by W. ...
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Working from home: Carducci Quartet perform Philip Glass’s String Quartet no.2
The Anglo-Irisn ensemble perform the third movement of Glass’s String Quartet no.2 ‘Company’
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A new approach to recording during the coronavirus crisis
In this video soprano Beate Mordal and cellist Eivind Rossbach Heier perform Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras. Both musicians have recorded their parts separately in this time of social distancing.
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Working from home: Steven Isserlis gives an online children’s concert
Steven Isserlis performing his first ever children’s concert over Facebook Live on March 24th.
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Christian Li performs Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the Menuhin Competition
Violinist Christian Li performs Self in Mind by Jaehyuck Choi and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: Summer at the 2018 Menuhin Competition Junior Final
