All Video articles – Page 45
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VideoDouble bass quintet performs Swedish folk music in the forest
Božo Paradžik and students record a bass quintet arrangement of Swedish folks music ensemble Väsen’s Nitti Pomfritti. The musicians are, left to right, Oskari Hänninen, Božo Paradžik, Madlaina Küng, Cecilia Perfetti and Marko Hristoskov.
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VideoLaurence Lesser talks about his Brothers Amati cello
American cellist Laurence Lesser talks about the history and special characteristics of the Antonio & Girolamo Amati cello which has been his ‘musical mate’ since 1972
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VideoKian Soltani: Tiny Desk Concert
For NPR’s long-running Tiny Desk Concert series, cellist Kian Soltani performs a set of Popper, Schubert and his own Persian Fire Dance.
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VideoKanneh-Mason Trio performs Deep River
Performed by the Kanneh-Mason Trio, this is an arrangement of the traditional spiritual Deep River. It is based on the 1904 piano arrangement by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The trio comprises the Kanneh-Mason siblings Sheku (cello), Isata (piano) and Braimah (violin), and this recording is being released by Decca as their first ...
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VideoRay Chen plays Waltzing Matilda live at Hollywood Bowl
Ray Chen performs his own variations on Watzing Matilda, which as he says is ‘actually quite a tragic song’. ‘For some reason the tune remains jaunty and happy, which is why I decided I would make an arrangement that better describes the story through music,’ writes Chen: ‘“Waltzing Matilda” is ...
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VideoNicola Benedetti at NYO Prom
To end her Prom with the National Youth Orchestra (for whom she was recently made ambassador), Nicola Benedetti performs the second movement of Wynton Marsalis’s Fiddle Dance Suite: a ballade called As the Wind Goes. Read: Nicola-Benedetti-to-become-NYO-ambassador
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VideoSheku Kanneh-Mason plays Mendelssohn Sonata for Cello and Piano
This was part of the Verbier Festival 2019 concert in which the cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist George Li performed works by Beethoven, Debussy, Mendelssohn, and Lutosławski. To watch the full concert click here.
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VideoDaniel Hope: a portrait of the violinist
This portrait of Daniel Hope from 2017 explores the violinist’s career, the history of his family (who came to London from Berlin via South Africa), and asks what drives him as a musician.
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VideoMagic Flute for string quartet
The Quatuor Zaïde perform a trancription of the Queen of the Night Aria from Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The group has recently released a recording of the a selection of highlights from the opera, as arranged by an anonymous contemporary of the composer. The video was made at the ...
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VideoIvry Gitlis plays La Capricieuse
The great Israeli violinist here performs this violin miniature by Edward Elgar on French television in 1962
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VideoPortrait of Anne Akiko Meyers aged 12 in 1983
‘When Anne was born we used to play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto when we fed her so that she would naturally love music,’ says Anne Akiko Meyers’s mother in this profile of the violinist from 1983. Includes footage of the pedagogue Alice Schoenfeld who died in May this year. Read: ...
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VideoHilary Hahn gives her first live Instagram performance for UNICEF
During a strike across Radio France in June, in which her concert with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France was cancelled, Hilary Hahn performed Prokofiev’s 1st Violin Concerto live on Instagram instead, without orchestral accompaniment, raising money for UNICEF.
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VideoMendelssohn’s Octet - with 100 unheard bars of music
This performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet contains 100 bars of unheard music. The performers are: violinists Nicholas Kitchen, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Ani Kavafian and Hagai Shaham; violists Katharina Kang and Paul Neubauer; and cellists Antonio Lysy and Beiliang Zhu.
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VideoSeagulls divebomb spectators at LA Phil open air gig in Edinburgh
During much of Gustavo Dudamel’s orchestra’s performance for the opening of the Edinburgh Festival, which consisted of several iconic film scores by composers from Max Steiner to John Williams, the LA Philharmonic was accompanied by flocks of shrieking seagulls, with some of the birds reportedly dive-bombing spectators.
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VideoBožo Paradžik leads a double bass quintet
Božo Paradžik and students record a bass quintet arrangement of Czech composer Václav Vačkář’s march Šohaj. The musicians are, left to right, Oskari Hänninen, Božo Paradžik, Madlaina Küng, Cecilia Perfetti and Marko Hristoskov.
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VideoComparing 3 Stradivari cellos
Pablo Ferrández visits the Nippon Music Foundation to compare the 1696 'Lord Aylesford' cello he has on loan with two others by Stradivari, the 1730 'De Munck, Feuermann' and the 1736 'Ladenburg' (part of the 'Paganini' quartet).
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VideoHorses enjoy a private Ray Chen recital
Ray Chen plays Vivaldi as ‘A serenade to the horses for all the bow hairs I’ve broken’
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VideoLeon Bosch: clear and resonant harmonics on the double bass
Achieving successful harmonics on the double bass, including both left hand and correct bowing technique
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VideoFernández - Prelude & Bossa Nova No. 2 ‘Alla Chitarra’
Composer Horacio Fernández writes: ‘In this virtuoso piece, the cello is asked to put the bow down and imitate techniques that are usually associated with the guitar such as the use of chords and fingerstyle technique. ‘With this, the cello proves once again its capabilities as a simultaneously harmonic and ...
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VideoBoris Johnson on the kemence - a traditional Turkish stringed instrument
Receiving a Turkish award in 2012 for his work as London mayor, Johnson was told of a belief in the Black Sea province of Rize that no one could become prime minister unless they could play the kemence, a traditional stringed instrument. Johnson had a go. It seems to have ...