All Video articles – Page 16
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VideoYo-Yo Ma’s screen debut
A video of a charity performance in 1962 in which Yo-Yo played for JFK and Eisenhower, and was introduced by Leonard Bernstein. Pablo Casals, who was also on the bill, brought the then- 7-year-old Yo-Yo to the organisers’ attention.
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Cello playing robot forms part of exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich
The artwork, which plays music created in collaboration with cellist-composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, is part of artist Olafur Eliasson’s Symbiotic Seeing
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Toilet roll is put to a new musical use
Alexandra Fletcher, a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, plays Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D major.
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Goldmund Quartet perform Fazıl Say’s ‘Divorce’ String Quartet
The Munich ensemble perform Fazil Say’s String Quartet op.29, ‘Divorce’, third movement: Presto
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Pablo Casals performs The Song of the Birds
Pablo Casals performs The Song of the Birds (‘El cant dels ocells’), a traditional Catalan carol
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Hauser performs his arrangement of Barber’s Adagio for Strings
The Croatian cellist presents the latest music video from his debut album, Classic
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Classical Up Close: Steven Isserlis
On February 28, 2020 British cellist Steven Isserlis came to The Greene Space in New York for an up close evening of music and conversation. He was joined by pianist Shai Wosner in a program of works by Beethoven, Janacek, and Prokofiev.
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Berlin Philharmonic recruits first female first principal of the second violins
Marlene Ito succeeds Christian Stadelmann, who died in July 2019
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Why the Royal Ballet love performing The Cellist
Choreographer Cathy Marston, cellist Hetty Snell, and cast Lauren Cuthbertson, Marcelino Sambé and Matthew Ball discuss why they have loved rehearsing and performing The Cellist.
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Eleanor Corr performs her ROSL section winning recital
Violinist Eleanor Corr Photo Jane Salmon Watch British violinist Eleanor Corr perform her winning recital with pianist Aleksandra Myslek at the 68th Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition 2020. Corr won the strings section prize with a recital that comprised Lutosławski’s Partita, V: Presto; the ...
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How Nashville former gymnast and Chicago carpenter ended up making violins together
He’s a carpenter, hunter, fisherman and veteran, who, for many years, lived in the woods of Alaska. She’s a former gymnast who fell in love with the violin in ballet class. So on the face of it Ray DeMeo and Amanda N. Ewing don’t have that much in common. Except ...
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Aspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Gil Shaham
Violinist Gil Shaham recalls how his first encounter with Barber’s Violin Concerto led him to a treasure trove of violin concertos from the 1930s
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12 ensemble performs ‘Honey Siren - II. (Full like drips)’ by Oliver Leith
Filmed in the loading bay at the Barbican Centre in London, the British conductorless string group 12 ensemble here performs ‘Honey Siren - II. (Full like drips)’ by Oliver Leith. The new commission by the London-based composer and Royal Opera House artist-in-residence appears on 12 ensemble’s second album, Death ...
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Daniel Hope on why he is exploring music of the Belle Époque
On ’Belle Époque’, his latest album, British violinist Daniel Hope explores music from the turn of the twentieth century. It was an era musically defined by the last melancholy flourishes of late romanticism and the emergence of the avant-garde. What fascinates Daniel Hope about the Belle Epoque? The violinist ...
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Bach on a 1659 Andrea Guarneri
In this video the violinist Federico Guglielmo plays Bach on a 1659 Andrea Guarneri.
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Cat crashes orchestral concert in Istanbul
This cat made headlines, after video footage emerged of it prowling around the stage of the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, at this concert featuring the CRR Symphony Orchestra. Eventually the concert went on regardless, but the cat was undeterred, resting on the edge of the stage ...
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Aspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Sylvia Rosenberg
Violinist and teacher Sylvia Rosenberg shares a moment of musical revelation that came when she was teaching Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto at Aspen
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Cellist plays with synthetic bow hair
In this video cellist Sarah Markle performs ‘ Original Rags’ (1899) by Scott Joplin, using Coruss synthetic bow hair. According to the manufacturer, Coruss synthetic bow hair matches natural horsehair in blind tests for tone and articulation. The pianist Evan Currie.
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A Far Cry performs Tchaikovsky’s Serenade on Cremonese instruments
Musicians from Boston chamber orchestra A Far Cry perform the first movement from Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings from memory on Cremonese instruments selected from the vault of Reuning Son
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Aspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Lynn Harrell
Cellist Lynn Harrell recalls a life-changing experience from his youth, when he watched his father sing Schubert’s Winterreise on stage at Aspen to a rapt audience
