All Video articles – Page 26
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VideoDallas 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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VideoAmit 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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VideoMorgen! 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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VideoBoris 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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VideoHilary 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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VideoPekka 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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VideoCellist 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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VideoNicola 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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VideoKronos 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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VideoHilary 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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VideoJulian 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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VideoEnsemble 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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VideoRachel 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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VideoViolist 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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VideoMusic & 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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VideoMartinu’s Three Madrigals at the Bromley & Beckenham Festival
Violinist Hyeyoon Park and Violist Timothy Ridout play Martinů’s Three Madrigals, H.313
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VideoNigel Kennedy plays Mendelssohn aged 26
There’s little sign of what was to come in this video of the crossover star performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in 1982
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VideoRavel’s Vocalise en forme de Habanera played on double bass
A performance by Queenslnd Symphony Orhcestra principal Phoebe Russell, taken from a new online resource for double bassists
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VideoConcertos from the Inside: Rachel Barton Pine plays music by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges
In January, the American violinist Rachel Barton Pine launched 24 in 24: Concertos from the Inside with RBP, a series in which she is performing 24 different violin concertos live and unaccompanied in 24 weeks. As part of the performance, she also delivers a pre-concert talk, and confides what she ...
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VideoPremiere of the Month: Amabile Quartet rehearse new work
Ahead of their performance at Tokyo’s Hakuju Hall, the Amabile Quartet rehearse Dai Fujikura’s ‘Aquarius’
