All Video articles – Page 38
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VideoWorking from home: UriPoste Jukebox
Locked down in Philadelphia, violinist Elena Urioste and her pianist husband Tom Poster invited people on social media to send in requests for pieces they could arrange and film themselves playing. Here, as a belated 21st birthday present for cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who asked if we might arrange some Bob ...
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VideoWorking from home: Augustin Hadelich
The German-American violinist plays both the violin and piano parts of Kreisler’s Liebesfreud. The recording was made on 6 April 2020 in Hadelich’s home during the coronavirus lockdown. Hadelich writes: ’Here is “Liebesfreud” by Fritz Kreisler, one of his most joyful pieces. I love the line in the piano answering ...
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VideoWorking from home: Kronos Quartet introduces ‘Ask Kronos Anything’
David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt and Sunny Yang from the Kronos Quartet introduce ‘Ask Kronos Anything’, a new series in which they answer questions from the public online.
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VideoWorking from home: the Kanneh-Mason family
A video introduced by the Kanneh-Mason sisters in which they describe their daily routine before cutting to a cello and violin duet between 20-year-old Sheku and his 22-year-old brother Braimah. The video finishes with a piano performance from 23-year-old Isata.
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VideoYo-Yo Ma and Youth Music Culture Guangdong perform Bach
Ma is artistic director of the annual training programme, which takes place in Guangzhou, China
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VideoViolinist plays classical music for South Korea hospital patients
Won Hyung-joon performed Bach/Gounod’s Ave Maria just outside the hospital room occupied by a family of coronavirus patients
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VideoLive-streamed concert by the Echo Ensemble
The London-based group is running a series of concerts every Wednesday evening at 7.30pm
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VideoHand puppets play the cello
From the cellist Katie De La Mare (performer on this video): ‘So I’m stuck in a room with a cello and a bunch of puppets. This was only a matter of time… 😂 (Thanks to Roxanne Scott for filming and screaming!)’ Songs played: Theme from Jaws Tarantella by W. H. ...
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VideoWorking from home: Carducci Quartet perform Philip Glass’s String Quartet no.2
The Anglo-Irish ensemble perform the third movement of Glass’s String Quartet no.2 ‘Company’
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VideoA new approach to recording during the coronavirus crisis
In this video soprano Beate Mordal and cellist Eivind Rossbach Heier perform Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras. Both musicians have recorded their parts separately in this time of social distancing.
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VideoWorking from home: Steven Isserlis gives an online children’s concert
Steven Isserlis performing his first ever children’s concert over Facebook Live on March 24th.
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VideoChristian Li performs Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the Menuhin Competition
Violinist Christian Li performs Self in Mind by Jaehyuck Choi and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: Summer at the 2018 Menuhin Competition Junior Final
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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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VideoCello 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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VideoToilet 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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VideoGoldmund 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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VideoPablo 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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VideoHauser 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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VideoClassical 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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VideoBerlin Philharmonic recruits first female first principal of the second violins
Marlene Ito succeeds Christian Stadelmann, who died in July 2019