All Video articles – Page 22
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María Duenas’s prize-winning performance at the 2021 Menuhin Competition
In this, her prize-winning performance from the Senior Finals of the 2021 Menuhin Competition in Richmond, the 18-year-old Spanish violinist María Dueñas plays Lutoslawski’s Subito; Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.4 in D major K.218, Andante cantabile; and Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole in D minor, Op. 21, Allegro non troppo. Read Menuhin Competition ...
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Perlman on the golden era of the violin school
As part of the Dorothy DeLay Masterclasses, organised and directed by Dmitri Berlinsky, violinist Itzhak Perlman and his wife Toby Perlman, Founder of The Perlman Music Program, join Berlinsky for a discussion about the great violinists and what makes them so special. Watch Prince Philip and the Queen listen to ...
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Zlatomir Fung plays Fauré with AI piano accompaniment
The My Pianist app appears in place of a live musician in this performance by the winner of the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Compettion
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Junior Semi-Finals from the Menuhin Competition Richmond 2021
The video features performances from five internatiional candidates, aged 13-15
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Dallas String Quartet delivers a Latin twist
In this video the Dallas String Quartet teams up with the jazz pianist Jesús Molina for a spicy, original single entitled ‘Sabor,’ delivering a Latin twist and spicy keys from Molina (of Colombia). Read ’I’m a classically-trained violinist, but I’d love to play Jazz. How do I start?’
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Amit Peled plays an African-American Spiritual
The Israeli cellist Amit Peled plays ‘A Motherless Child’, an African American Spiritual newly arranged for cello and orchestra, with the Asheville Symphony. Read Sentimental Work: Amit Peled Read Cellist Amit Peled launches online cello academy sessions Watch 12-year-old violinist Leia Zhu plays Kodály with cellist Amit Peled
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Morgen! Nicola Benedetti and Andrew Staples perform Richard Strauss
Members of the Aurora Orchestra and conductor Nicholas Collon are joined by Benedetti and Staples for Strauss’s 1894 song ‘Morgen!’
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Boris Begelman plays Bach
In this music video from 2017 the violinist Boris Begelman plays the Gavotte from Bach’s Violin Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006. Read Session Report: Playing the hero
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Hilary Hahn plays Dvorák’s Violin Concerto in a ‘concert without public’
In this concert, performed in an empty hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt on 22 April 2021, Hilary Hahn plays Dvořák’s Violin Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony under Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Read How I warm up: Hilary Hahn
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Pekka Kuusisto brings Proms audience to their feet with Finnish folk song
A encore performance from 2016 that, in Kuusisto’s words, ‘has become a little larger than life’
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Cellist Laura van der Heijden plays Walton in BBC Young Musician final 2012
Van der Heijden took home the trophy with this performance of Walton’s Cello Concerto in the 2012 competition final
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Nicola Benedetti and friends explore the psychology and physicality of playing
Highlights from the Benedetti Foundation’s three-week long dive into the relationship between instrument, brain and body
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Kronos Quartet play John Coltrane, Terry Riley and new music from the US and Iran
Part of Carnegie Hall’s Voices for Hope festival, the 45-minute concert draws on themes from defining moments of 20th-century history
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Hilary Hahn gives a mini-masterclass on Chausson’s Poème
The violinist Hilary Hahn gives a mini-masterclass on Chausson’s Poème, op.25, one of three pieces on her album ’Paris’, recorded with Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Read How I warm up: Hilary Hahn Read Hilary Hahn: ‘I find that speaking, thinking and sharing ideas is integral ...
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Julian Lloyd Webber plays Elgar with Yehudi Menuhin
A live performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto from the 1986 Harrogate International Festival with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yehudi Menuhin
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Ensemble Diderot plays Fux’s Sonata a tre violini senza basso
In this video from Johannes Pramsohler and Ensemble Diderot, marking the release of their upcoming album on 30 April, baroque violinists Johannes Pramsohler, Roldán Bernabé and Simone Pirri play Fux’s Sonata a tre violini senza basso. Watch Lech Antonio Uszynski plays Toccata and Fugue on the viola Watch 14 top ...
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Rachel Podger and Nicola Benedetti explore the physicality of playing the violin
This is the final video of ‘Building Foundations’ Virtual Sessions, in which Nicola Benedetti shares a series of short interviews on the topic of physicality and psychology of playing with a variety of musicians. Here, Benedetti chats with violinist Rachel Podger about approaches to technique both physically and mentally, the ...
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Violist Stephen Upshaw plays Errollyn Wallen’s Lavinia
The violist Stephen Upshaw plays Errollyn Wallen’s ‘LAVINIA’, commissioned for him by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and Riot Ensemble. Wallen says of her piece: ‘Based on the Ancient Greek character Lavinia, this piece seeks to convey the overwhelming and consuming nature of jealousy which most often grows out ...
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Music & Maths: Baroque & Beyond with Marcus du Sautoy
What is it that makes Stradivarius violins so special and unique? And what does Newton’s Cradle have to do with Baroque music? Marcus du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, presents a programme delving into the relationship between ...
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Martinu’s Three Madrigals at the Bromley & Beckenham Festival
Violinist Hyeyoon Park and Violist Timothy Ridout play Martinů’s Three Madrigals, H.313