All Video articles – Page 57
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VideoPerlman, Zukerman, Harrell: Beethoven String Trio op.9 no.1
Filmed at the Kaufmann Concert Hall in New York in 1990, this concert features Itzhak Perlman, VPinchas Zukerman and Lynn Harrell performing Beethoven’s String Trio in G major, op.9 no.1.
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VideoShostakovich: Two pieces for string octet - Kamermuziek Festival Utrecht
From Dutch broadcaster Avrotros comes this video from the 2017 Utrecht Chamber Music Festival featuring this early Shostakovich work, the Two Pieces for String Octet, op.11. Musicians: Boris Brovtsyn [violin] Nikita Boriso-Glebsky [viool] Nikki Chooi [viool] Baiba Skride [viool] Amihai Grosz [altviool] Pauline Sachse [altviool] Maximilian Hornung [cello] Harriet ...
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VideoJoel Quarrington plays Bach's Sixth Cello Suite on double bass
Filmed at St-Stephen’s Parish in Chelsea, Québec, this video features Canadian double bassist Joel Quarrington performing the Sixth Suite for solo cello by J.S. Bach. Quarrington favours tuning his Giovanni Paolo Maggini bass in fifths, CGDA, i.e. an octave below the cello, or two octaves below the viola. He ...
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VideoDvořák String Quintet no.2 with Baiba Skride, Sol Gabetta, Veronika Hagen etc
Filmed at the Hochrhein Musikfestival, this video features Dvořák String Quintet no.2 in G major, Op. 77, performed by Baiba Skride, Andrés Gabetta (violins), Veronika Hagen (viola), Sol Gabetta (cello), and Roberto Di Ronza (double bass) Allegro con fuoco (0:02) Scherzo. Allegro vivace (10:53) Poco andante (18:33) Finale. Allegro ...
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VideoVitamin String Quartet: All I Want For Christmas
Filmed at the Mack Sennett Studios in Los Angeles, this video features a track from the Vitamin String Quartet’s Christmas album (available to stream here : http://smarturl.it/VSQChristmasAlbum)
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VideoMerry Christmas from Johannes Moser
In this video Johannes Moser, Johannes Moser, Johannes Moser and Johannes Moser wishes you a Merry Christmas.
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VideoKanneh-Mason Trio plays Rachmaninoff’s Elegiaque
In this video, filmed in 2016, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, his pianist sister Isata and violinist brother Braimah perform Rachmaninoff’s Elegiaque.
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VideoItzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman: Mozart Duo
In this extract from a film by Christopher Nupen, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman perform together in concert at the Royal College of Music, London, in 1978. The work is Mozart’s Duo for Violin and Viola no.1 in G Major K423. The entire concert is available on the Allegro Films ...
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VideoVariations on Lo How a Rose: Zhihao Wu, cello
Filmed at the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia, this performance by cellist Zhihao Wu of Mark Summer’s ‘Variations on Lo How A Rose E’er Blooming’ was part of the opening concert of the 2018 Heifetz Holiday Tour. The annual Heifetz Holiday Tour features alumni of the Heifetz ...
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VideoChristian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt suffer double pageturning calamity
In this 2015 recital at the Sendesaal Bremen by violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt, sheet music starts to fly. The pageturner who saves the day is violinist Anna Reszniak
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VideoGary Karr performs Andrés Martín's 'The Heart Knows No Borders'
Double bass soloist Gary Karr performs a work by composer Andrés Martín with the Baja California Orchestra and the Bass Orchestra of the XIII Encuentro Latinoamericano de Contrabajos. The composer conducts the performance which took place on 30 November at the Centro Cultural Tijuana in Mexico.
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VideoHilary Hahn does the Ling Ling Workout
First she played Paganini while hoola-hooping. Now Hilary Hahn has accepted an even meaner TwoSet Violin challenge, which, amongst other things, involves playing Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with the A string tuned down a semitone.
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VideoRay Chen: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
The violinist performs a seasonal favourite. Produced by Daniel Jang
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VideoEvan Price plays Django Reinhardt
Improvisation no.2 by jazz guitar legend Django Reinhardt is here arranged for solo violin and performed by Evan Price. ‘The bow technique is of uncertain origin but was made famous by hot jazz violin great, Joe Venuti,’ writes Price. This performance appears on Price’s 2017 album ‘Dialogues’. Audio recording: ...
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VideoDouble bass and octobass duet
Double bass player Jonathan Camps is joined by Nicola Moneta on octobass for a performance of ‘Amazing Grace’ filmed at the Mardi Graves festival in February 2018.
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VideoA meeting of two very different bassists
The American jazz and funk bassist Steve Bailey plays together with double bassist François Rabbath and his pianist son Sylvain Rabbath at Bavarian Bassdays 2018 in Mühldorf/Inn.
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VideoYo-Yo Ma performs in Montréal metro
The Chinese-American cellist gives a free concert in the Montréal metro, including a Leonard Cohen singalong.
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VideoAzure Quartet: Spiral Sequences by Jack Frerer
‘Spiral Sequences is a string quartet performed in two movements,’ writes composer Jack Frerer. ‘The first, the shorter of the two, is frantic and pulse-driven, carried by momentum generated by spiraling 16th note patterns and repeated ostinatos. It presents fragments of a sequence-like pattern, one which is played in its ...
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VideoSheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason: variations on In the Bleak Midwinter
Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason perform an arrangement of Holst’s Christmas carol ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’. Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter - Arr. Kanneh-Mason © 2018 Decca Music Group Limited
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VideoThe moment Rostropovich's cello is sold for £1.6 million
Filmed during Sotheby’s recent sale of items belonging to Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, this video captures the moment that the cellist’s1783 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini reaches a hammer price of £1.6 million. It was sold for a final total of £1,930,000 (including the buyer’s premium). Read: Two cello records set ...
