All Video articles – Page 22
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VideoItzhak Perlman performs at Pittsburgh synagogue memorial
This video is an extract from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Concert for Peace and Unity on 27 November, marking a month since the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue and honouring its victims. The concert will be broadcast in full by PBS on 11 December.
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Photographing a Stradivarius
In this video from 2013, still life photographer Søren Jonesen photographs the 1714 ‘Yoldi-Moldenhauer’ Stradivari. The photoshoot was organised by Danish high-end digital photography company Phase One working with Andy Lim of Darling Publications, which printed a monograph featuring the photos and history of the instrument. The concept was ...
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Peace Through Music: violinist Hyeong-Joon Won
Violinist Hyeong-Joon Won gives a TEDx talk last year on his projects bringing musicians from North and South Korea together to perform and promote peace
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Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra plays items left on trains
Members of the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra perform a piece of music using items left behind on trains, including a surfboard, a bicycle pump and an umbrella.
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Diana Tishchenko performs Mendelssohn
Diana Tishchenko, winner of this year’s Long-Thibaud-Crespin competition, performs the first movement of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor in the contest’s final round.
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Ray Chen's practice challenge: Paganini Sauret Cadenza
The violinist lays bare his practice process, beginning from scratch on one of the steepest technical challenges in the repertoire – the Émile Sauret cadenza for Paganini’s First Violin Concerto.
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Layale Chaker and the Sarafand Ensemble
In this video from Morgenland Festival Osnabrück 2017, Layale Chaker and the Sarafand Ensemble with Michel Godard perform their version of the Lebanese folk solk Havvel ya gannam. Violinist and composer Layale Chaker trained at the National Higher Conservatory of Beirut in her native Lebanon, followed by studies at ...
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Die Seele der Geige: documentary featuring Frank Peter Zimmermann and luthier Martin Schleske
[n.b. no English subtitles. As broadcast on Arte.tv, the film is in German, or click the gear icon to change to French.] This documentary, a coproduction by EuroArts and BR (Bavarian Broadcasting), follows violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in 2016 as he reunites with the ‘Lady Inchiquin’ Stradivari, after a ...
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason meets Rostropovich's Cellos
Ahead of Sotheby’s sale Rostropovich Vishnevskaya (November 28th), Sheku Kanneh-Mason went to the auctioning house to try out three of the cellos belonging to his musical hero.
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Nicolas Cherniavsky makes music in the woods
In this video cellist Nicolas Cherniavsky explains why playing in the forest is unlike playing in any other space, and describes the ways in which the music reflects the qualities of the wood.
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Santiago Cañón Valencia plays Bach Chaconne cello transcription
Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón Valencia, who was recently presented with the 2018 János Starker Award here performs his own transcription of the Chaconne from Bach’s Partita no.2. This video was made at the Luis Angel Arango Hall in Bogotá on 13 August 2017.
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The Essence of a Sound: luthier Hans Johannsson at TEDx Reykjavik
Icelandic violin maker Hans Johannsson gives a talk exploring ‘a fascinating juxtaposition of an age-old traditional craft on the one hand and the pursuit of science and technology on the other’, filmed at a TEDx event at the Tjarnarbíó theatre in Reykjavik on 4 November. The listing for the ...
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Nicolas Altstaedt plays Sarabande from first cello suite
German/French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt plays the Sarabande from Bach’s Cello Suite no.1 in G at the Bimhuis Amsterdam This is an excerpt from the 29 November 2015 edition of ‘Vrije Geluiden’ (Free Sounds), a programme on Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. More on: http://www.vpro.nl/vrije-geluiden
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How many luthiers does it take to make two violins in a week?
This video follows the week-long process of making two new violins for the Royal Northern College of Music instrument collection during its Strings Festival in March 2018. Luthiers Kai-Thomas Roth, William Castle, Marc Soubeyran and Tibor Szemmelveisz collaborated on building two violins between 2 and 8 March, one based ...
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Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach to dignitaries
The cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs the Sarabande from Bach’s Cello Suite No 5 to world leaders in Paris on Sunday as part of the events marking the centenary of the Armistice.
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Documentary on Florian Leonhard
Florian Leonhard, the world-renowned maker and restorer of fine violins, tells his story, with contributions from Leonidas Kavakos and Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Filmed at Leonhard’s workshop in London.
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David Leonard Wiedmer and Léa Trombert in comic promo
Léa Trombert and David Leonard Wiedmer, who share a workshop in Lyon , France, star in what starts looking like a standard promotional video. David Leonard Wiedmer won a number of medals at the 2018 VSA Competition , including Gold for violin, Gold for cello (in collaboration with Damien ...
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Ray Chen plays Paganini in the first round of Menuhin Competition 2008
For Ray Chen, the 2008 Menuhin Competition which turbo boosted his career started here, with Paganini’s Caprice no.5. Chen, then 19, won the event before going on to also win the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.
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Tianyou Ma performs at Music for Youth Proms 2018
Chinese violinist Tianyou Ma performing at the Music for Youth Proms lunchtime concert on Tuesday 6 November. Ma was a prizewinner at the 2018 Menuhin Competition , winning 4th Prize and the Bach Prize. Music for Youth is an organisation that gives more than 40,000 children performing ...
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New Greenpeace campaign featuring violinist Pekka Kuusisto
Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto is featured in Greenpeace’s latest film as part of its campaign to protect the Great Northern Forest. ‘Forests have always been a source of inspiration in art, but nowadays they are becoming more and more a source of worry and sadness too, as we see ...
