All Video articles – Page 30
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VideoJulia Fischer plays Saint-Saëns’s Havanaise aged 12
The German violinist plays Saint-Saëns’s Havanaise aged 12 in 1996, accompanied by the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa under Luís Izquierdo. The video also includes footage of Fischer practising violin, playing hockey, and sitting with her fellow class members at school. Read: Sentimental Work: Julia Fischer Read: Julia Fischer founds children’s orchestra
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VideoA 21-year-old Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.3 in G major in 1985
In this video, made in March 1985, a 21-year-old Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.3 in G major with the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE under Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez. Watch: Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Mozart in a modern art museum during lockdown Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter signs with new US agent ...
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VideoHilary Hahn’s two-year-old tells her to ‘practise slow’
Hilary Hahn receives practice instruction from her two-year-old. Watch: Musical pictionary with Hilary Hahn Watch: Violinist Hilary Hahn performing at the age of 10 Watch: Hilary Hahn plays the Sibelius Violin Concerto with no accompaniment
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VideoYo-Yo Ma gives online masterclass for Youth Music Culture Guangdong
The session covers topics such as ’activating the imagination’, ‘relaxing while playing’ and ’finding a story in music’
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VideoLockdown commissions 6: Lawrence Power plays William Marsey’s The Poor Room
In this, the sixth of ten videos, violist Lawrence Power plays William Marsery’s ‘The Poor Room’ at his house in London. The video was filmed by Jessie Rodger during the Christmas break, with sound by Brett Cox. Power says: ‘It’s interesting to reflect on the spaces and rooms that we ...
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VideoCarducci Quartet plays Philip Glass’s String Quartet No.5 with drummer Cristián Tamblay
The Carducci String Quartet performs the third movement of Philip Glass’s String Quartet No.5 in a new version with Cristián Tamblay on the drums. Watch: Carducci String Quartet plays a Shostakovich string quartet – with drums Watch: Working from home: Carducci Quartet perform Philip Glass’s String Quartet no.2 Watch: Carducci ...
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VideoThe Navarra Quartet, tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Lada Valešová perform Pavel Haas’s Fata Morgana
Beginning with a monologue on remembrance from author Howard Jacobson, the performance marks Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January 2021
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VideoViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs Perpetuum Mobile by Franz Ries
Violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Rohan De Silva perform Franz Ries’s Perpetuum Mobile, op.34 no.5 at a state dinner in 2007. In the audience are Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, alongside then US President George W. Bush. Read: Never practise for more than five hours per ...
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VideoFilipe Quaresma plays Ligeti’s Cello Concerto
This video features the Ligeti Cello Concerto played by cellist Filipe Quaresma and the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra conducted by Pedro Carneiro at the Suggia Hall of Casa da Música Porto (Portugal). Watch: Rohan de Saram plays Xenakis
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VideoGrand Teton Music Festival on Location: Houston
This instalment of the Grand Teton Music Festival on Location, recorded at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas, features Mozart’s Flute Quartet No. 1 in D major K.285; Reicha’s Wind Quintet in E flat major, Op.88 No.2; Farkas’s Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century; and Brahms’s Piano Quintet ...
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VideoViolinist Charlie Siem performs for the virtual ‘All About Bach’ festival
Violinist Charlie Siem performs Bach’s Violin Partita no.3 in E major BWV 1006 and the Chaconne from Bach’s Violin Partita no.2 in D minor BWV 1004. The performance opens the virtual ’All about Bach’ Festival, running 8 January to 5 March 2021 - part of Only Stage Management’s free digital ...
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VideoMusical pictionary with Hilary Hahn
TwoSet Violin pit their pictionary skills against Hilary Hahn Read: TwoSet Violin make a return Read: Brett Yang of TwoSet Violin to take a break Watch: TwoSet Violin present ten types of musicians during quarantine
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VideoAuner Quartett plus colleagues play Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge
In this fundraising initiative from the Wiener Konzerthaus the Auner Quartett leads a string orchestra of some of Austria’s concertmasters and leaders in a performance of Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, under the baton of Emmanuel Tjeknavorian. Among the instruments being played are those by Stradivari, Guadagnini, Guarneri, Sanctus Serafin, Geissenhof, Grancino, ...
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VideoMaxim Vengerov plays Ernst’s Variations on ‘The Last Rose of Summer’
In this video Maxim Vengerov plays Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst’s The Last Rose of Summer - Polyphonic Study no.6, written in 1864. Read: Maxim Vengerov launches new educational website
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VideoVideo of Leopold Auer and Alexander Glazunov from 1912
This video footage, filmed in St Petersburg in 1912, shows the composer Alexander Glazunov and violinist Leopold Auer standing together. There is also an appearance from the Russian/Soviet pianist Leonid Nikolayev. Read: Leopold Auer profiled in the July 1907 issue of The Strad
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VideoSophie Rosa on recording the world premiere of Montgeroult’s Violin Sonata in A minor Op.2
Violinist Sophie Rosa talks about her new recording, which features the Violin Sonata In A minor, Op.2 No.3 by Hélène de Montgeroult, a French composer who was working around the turn of the 19th century and was the first ever female professor to be appointed at the Paris Conservatoire. The ...
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VideoIvry Gitlis performs Berg’s Violin Concerto
Violinist Ivry Gitlis, who died on 24 December 2020 at the age of 98, performs Berg’s 1935 Violin Concerto ’To the Memory of an Angel’ with WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne conducted by Hans Vonk. Read: 8 opinions on performance and career by violinist Ivry Gitlis Read: Ivry Gitlis: a timeline ...
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VideoCarducci String Quartet plays a Shostakovich string quartet - with drums
The Carducci String Quartet (violinists Matthew Denton and Michelle Fleming, violist Eoin Schmidt-Martin and cellist Emma Denton) plays a new rendition of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No.7, featuring Cristián Tamblay on the drums. Watch: Working from home: Carducci Quartet perform Philip Glass’s String Quartet no.2 Watch: Carducci Quartet performs Shostakovich’s String ...
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VideoBach at the National Palace Museum, Taiwan: highlighting the treasures of 1742
In this video, violinist Paul Huang plays Bach at the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Huang says, ‘This video highlights the dialogue between three important subjects: a 1742 Guarneri ’del Gesù’ violin on loan from the Stradivari Society, an extraordinary Vase Within Vase from the Chin Dynasty around 1742 (one ...
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VideoAnne-Sophie Mutter plays Mozart in a modern art museum during lockdown
The German violinist, together with violinist Linus Roth, violist Vladimir Babeshko and cellist Lionel Martin, plays the Allegro molto from Mozart’s String Quartet No.2 in D major, KV155 at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter signs with new US agent Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter starts concert series to ...
