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VideoDanish String Quartet: Schnittke Music Video
In this music video, featuring the Danish String Quartet, actor Peter Kirk underlines the quirkiness and darkness in Schnittke’s String Quartet No.3. The video is shot on the island of Møn in south-eastern Denmark.
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Prepare with Nicky: Introduction - Meet Your Tutors
With only 33 days until the Benedetti Sessions - Nicola Benedetti’s series of orchestra-based weekend workshops which aim to address the needs of young musicians and of teachers - the violinist is launching a video a day. And she’s starting by introducing some of the tutors involved. ‘The good news’, ...
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Mariss Jansons conducts Rossini’s William Tell Overture
Guest cellist Mischa Meyer performs the opening solo
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Kronos Quartet performs One Earth, One People, One Love
Watch the official music video for One Earth, One People, One Love, the final movement of Sun Rings, a 2002 collaboration between Kronos and composer Terry Riley. The first full recording of Sun Rings was released by Nonesuch Records in August.The piece is scored for string quartet, chorus and ...
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason recording Elgar at Abbey Road Studios
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason recording the Elgar Cello Concerto with Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, in June 2019 at Abbey Road Studios. The 20-year-old soloist will release his new album, Elgar, on Decca Classics on 10 January 2020. The recording also includes a new arrangement of Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ ...
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Gautier Capuçon plays Bloch to mark anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The cellist Gautier Capuçon plays the Prière from Ernest Bloch’s ‘from Jewish Life’ at the memorial of the Berlin wall to mark the 30th anniversary of the Fall of Berlin Wall.
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Jack Liebeck plays Stuart Hancock concerto cadenza
Stuart Hancock’s album ‘Raptures’, including the Violin Concerto performed by Jack Liebeck, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Lev Parikian, is released on 15 November 2019 on Orchid Classics Read: Violinist Jack Liebeck and composer Stuart Hancock interview each other Read: The Strad Masterclass: Jack Liebeck ...
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Tamsin Waley-Cohen plays CPE Bach
Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and pianist James Ballieu perform the allegretto from CPE Bach’s Violin Sonata in C major (Wq. 73) in a Scala Session recorded on Wednesday 6 November 2019.
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Rostropovich plays Bach at the Checkpoint Charlie
This footage from November 1989, two days after the official fall of the Berlin Wall, shows Mstislav Rostropovich giving an impromptu performance of Bach’s cello suites at the Checkpoint C crossing point between East and West Berlin. Read our article ‘Witnesses to the fall’, from the March 2014 ...
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Christian Tetzlaff on recording Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
‘It’s a big process that’s being portrayed, and it takes me with it, and touches me again and again - even after playing it over 330 times.’ So says Christian Tetzlaff on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, which he has recorded with conductor Robin Ticciati.
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Jitka Šuranská performs music inspired by Czech folklore
The Czech violinist and singer, who has died aged 41, was known for her interpretations of Moravian folk songs
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Hansheinz Schneeberger plays Paganini aged 91
Schneeberger plays Paganini’s Cantibile with long-time duo partner guitarist Willy Riechsteiner
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Practice with Nicky - How to…Routine
In her first Practice with Nicky video, Nicola Benedetti focuses on building a routine. The violinist says: ‘Over the next couple of months, we’re going to take you through a host of practice tips. I hope there will be something there for everyone! But please let us know if you ...
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Horror in Haddington with the Vision String Quartet
On tour in Scotland the Vision String Quartet spends the night in an old house. But something seems to be wrong…
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The Opus 76 Quartet play Haydn’s op.76 no.4 ‘Sunrise’
The Kansas City based Opus 76 Quartet here perform one of the works from which they took their name
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Bottesini bass mob in Crema, Italy
A flashmob of young double bassists film in the centre of Crema, Italy, filmed during the 2019 Bottesini Competition . Video by Lorenzo Taidelli
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Spektral Quartet: George Crumb’s Black Angels
The Chicago based quartet performs Crumb’s most iconic work for strings, Black Angels (pt 1, ‘Departure’)
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With Nicky: Practice and Prepare Introduction
Nicola Benedetti offers tips on how to organise your time, how to stay concentrated and what to do with the time you have
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The Double Bass with Thomas Martin: Left Hand Ep 1, Position and Fingering Pt 1
In this series of episodes Thomas Martin takes a look at left hand technique, addressing a number of issues commonly experienced by players. This first episode covers the basics of positioning the left hand on the double bass in order to stop the string.
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Richard O’Neill plays Rebecca Clarke viola sonata
In this video from Korean broadcaster MBC, Richard O’Neill and Jeremy Denk perform Rebecca Clarke’s Sonata for Viola and Piano Impetuoso Vivace 07:27 Adagio 11:30 Read: Takács Quartet to welcome Richard O’Neill as new violist in 2020
