All Video articles – Page 70
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Video'Inside Colour' for violin solo by Deborah Pritchard
Deborah Pritchard yesterday won a British Composer Award for Inside Colour, a work for solo violin Commissioned for the London Sinfonietta Shorts Series, with funding from Lark Insurance. Deborah Pritchard with her British Composer Award Pritchard, who describes herself as synaesthetic, used images of the Aurora Borealis ...
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VideoPekka Kuusisto's home videos: a Finnish folk song about saunas
In the latest of his ongoing series of Finnish folk song videos for the Philharmonia Orchestra, Pekka Kuusisto plays a song about heating up the sauna.
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VideoGuy Johnston plays Bach in King's College Chapel on a 1714 cello by David Tecchler
British cellist Guy Johnston plays the prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 in the chapel of King’s College, Cambridge. His cello was built in Rome in 1714 by David Tecchler and is the subject of an ongoing project begun in 2014 by Johnston to ...
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VideoSteven Isserlis plays Bach on 'trench' cello
In this video from Classic FM we hear Steven Isserlis on the cello once played by Harold Triggs of the Royal Sussex Regiment in the trenches of the First World War. Read: Steven Isserlis’s trench cello encores
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VideoKristan Harvey & Nicola Benedetti - Leaving Lerwick Harbour
Fiddle duet of ‘Leaving Lerwick Harbour’ by Willie Hunter. Performed at the Clyde Auditorium in March 2012 by Kristan Harvey and Nicola Benedetti.
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VideoFinding Bespoke: The Violinmaker – A film by Michael Bernard featuring Benning Violins
Filmmaker Michael Bernard’s short film in his ‘Finding Bespoke’ series visits Benning Violins, a four-generation lutherie workshop in Los Angeles. Eric Benning is featured in the December 2017 issue of The Strad’s ‘My Space’ column – to read the full article, download the issue on desktop computer, ...
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VideoHilary Hahn plays Max Richter's 'Mercy'
In this clip from American public radio programme A Prairie Home Companion, Hilary Hahn plays Mercy by Max Richter, a piece written for her for the 2013 album In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores. The pianist is Jessica Osborne.
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VideoEdgar Russ: The right soundpost position
Continuing his YouTube series, Cremona-based luthier Edgar Russ talks about how to work out the correct position of the soundpost
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VideoChristian Tetzlaff on his 2000 Greiner violin
Christian Tetzlaff switched from playing older instruments to a modern one built by the German luthier Stefan-Peter Greiner. In this video from the Czech Philharmonic he suggests that ”Stradivari and Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ were fantastic violin makers but their instruments are not good because they are old and Italian, but ...
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VideoVadim Gluzman on the 1690 ‘Leopold Auer’ Stradivarius
In this video from the Czech Philharmonic, Vadim Gluzman recalls meeting the ‘Leopold Auer’ Stradivari 21 years ago and how it feels to play the instrument which belonged to the great violin pedagogue who tauch Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein
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VideoLawrence Power performs Salonen's Pentatonic Étude for solo viola
In this video from the Philharmonia Orchestra, British violist Lawrence Power plays Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Pentatonic Étude. Salonen wrote the piece for Power, who premiered it in 2015.
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VideoAlexander Sitkovetsky and Maxim Rysanov play Bach and Bartók
Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky and violist Maxim Rysanov alternate between two-part Inventions by Bach and duos by Bartók. Bach: Invention No. 1 in C major, BWV 772 Bartok: Duo No. 9 ‘Play Song’ Bach: Invention No. 2 in c minor, BWV 773 Bartok: Duo No. 23 ‘Wedding Song’ Bach: Invention No. ...
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VideoThe English Concert at Kings Place | Biber's Rosary Sonatas
Baroque period instrument ensemble The English Concert is performing an evening of chamber music by Biber and his contemporaries at London’s Kings Place on 6 December. In this video, violinist Nadja Zwiener offers her insight into Biber’s wonderful Rosary Sonatas (or ‘Mystery’ Sonatas). Find out more here: https://englishconcert.co.uk/whats-on…
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VideoHenning Kraggerud - Victimae Paschali
Henning Kraggerud and the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra perform an arrangement of Kraggerud’s own Victimae Paschali recorded in Tromsø Cathedral
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Video20 cellos in 1 minute
Margarita Balanas visits Tom Woods Cellos in London and plays the first Bourrée from Bach’s Cello Suite no.3 on 20 instruments of various makers and eras, including J. B. Vuillaume, Thomas Kennedy, J&A Gagliano, Georges Chanot and Claude Miremont
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VideoEllinor D'Melon, aged 9, plays Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole
In this video from 2009, Ellinor D’Mellon plays the fourth and fifth movements of Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole with pianist Alina Artemyeva. D’Melon, now 16, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, beginning violin lessons at the age of two and a half. She then studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Natasha ...
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VideoBridge position adjustment with Edgar Russ
In the first of a new series of YouTube videos, Cremona-based luthier Edgar Russ talks about the importance of proper bridge adjustment and how to check if yours is maintaining the correct angle
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VideoComparing a $62 factory violin to a $285,000 Testore
Classicaly trained violinist and prolific YouTuber Rob Landes visits Peter Prier & Sons in Salt Lake City, Utah, to compare a $62 factory violin bought from Amazon against a 1794 Vincenzo Panormo, an 1885 Giuseppe Scarampella and finally a 1700 Carlo Giuseppe Testore.
