All Video articles – Page 118
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Article2013 ARD Music Competition winner Yura Lee – video portrait
This year only one first prize was awarded at the ARD Music Competition in Munich, Germany – to South Korean Yura Lee in the viola division. Lee, a 28-year-old violinist and violist, discusses her life and music making in this video portrait, which includes excerpts of the ...
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ArticleThe Musical Art Quintet performs El Viejito
The Musical Art Quintet are one of the featured ensembles in our article 'Gateway to Inspiration', about San Francisco's alternative chamber music scene, published in the November issue of The Strad. Here they perform El Viejito by Sascha Jacobsen. Read Gateway to Inspiration in The Strad, November 2013. Subscribe to The Strad ...
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ArticleDel Sol Quartet and Garrett+Moulton Productions perform Stringwreck
The Del Sol Quartet and choreographers Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton present Stringwreck, an innovative music-dance collaboration performed live at California Polytechnic State University, on 15 April 2011. The Del Sol Quartet are one of the featured ensembles in our article 'Gateway to Inspiration', about San Francisco's alternative chamber music ...
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ArticleJoshua Bell's busking experiment
In 2007, our November cover star Joshua Bell tried an experiment with the Washington Post. He set up a busking pitch in the Washington D.C. Metro during rush hour, started playing Bach, and waited to see who would listen. The results were surprising, as you will see. ...
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ArticleSimon Fischer: The Secrets of Tone Production
Simon Fischer, writer of The Strad's long-running Basics column, introduces his teaching film The Secrets of Tone Production on All Bowed String Instruments.Featuring simple but instantly effective exercises for building, improving or maintaining fine and sensitive tone on any bowed string instrument. All demonstrated on the violin by Simon Fischer, ...
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ArticleReal Vocal String Quartet performs an arrangement of ‘Machine’ by Regina Spektor
The Real Vocal String Quartet are one of the featured ensembles in our article 'Gateway to Inspiration', about San Francisco's alternative chamber music scene in the November issue. Here they perform their arrangement of 'Machine' by Regina Spektor.Read Gateway to Inspiration in The Strad, November 2013. Subscribe to ...
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ArticleBeethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata on film: Pinchas Zukerman
The violinist performs Beethoven's towering sonata with pianist Marc Neikrug.Listen to how other great violinists tackled Beethoven's great masterwork:Joshua BellDylana JensonGidon KremerNathan MilsteinAnne-Sophie MutterPinchas ZukermanSubscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial.Read about the legendary violin players in our Violin ...
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ArticleBeethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata on film: Anne-Sophie Mutter
The German violinist performs the sonata with pianist Lambert Orkis.
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ArticleBeethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata on film: Joshua Bell
The American violinist and star of our November 2013 issue performs the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata with Yuja Wang.
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ArticleA Late Quartet – trailer
Watch the trailer from this 2012 film, newly released on DVD, about the tensions of quartet life set in New York – read our review here.
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ArticleBeethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata on film: Nathan Milstein
The violinist performs the first movement of Beethoven's great work with Georges Pludermacher.Listen to how other great violinists tackled Beethoven's great masterwork:Joshua BellDylana JensonGidon KremerNathan MilsteinAnne-Sophie MutterPinchas ZukermanSubscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial.Read about the legendary violin players ...
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ArticleSam Zygmuntowicz examines the art and mythology of violin making
Violin maker Sam Zygmuntowicz, who writes about the 'Huberman' Stradivari in our November issue, discusses the art of violin making at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition. He addresses fundamental questions such as, what is a Strad? Is a Strad that great? And even if it ...
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ArticleBeethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata on film: Gidon Kremer
The Latvian violinist performs with Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich. Listen to how other great violinists tackled Beethoven's great masterwork: Joshua Bell Dylana Jenson Gidon Kremer Nathan Milstein Anne-Sophie Mutter Pinchas Zukerman Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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ArticleBeethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata on film: Dylana Jenson
The American violinist Dylana Jenson – praised as a youngster by no less a figure than George Szell – performs Beethoven's masterwork aged 13, with pianist Alain Planes.Listen to how other great violinists tackled Beethoven's great masterwork: Joshua Bell Dylana Jenson Gidon Kremer Nathan Milstein Anne-Sophie Mutter Pinchas Zukerman ...
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ArticleBeethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata on film: Efrem Zimbalist
Precious 1926 footage of the Russian violinist Efrem Zimbalist performing the last movement of Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata with the pianist Harold Bauer. Read about the legendary violin players in our Violin Heroes bookazine. Listen to how other great violinists tackled Beethoven's great masterwork: Joshua Bell Dylana Jenson Gidon Kremer Nathan Milstein Anne-Sophie ...
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ArticleJacques Thibaud: La Fontaine d'Aréthuse
Jacques Thibaud perform Szymanowski's La Fontaine d'Aréthuse with Tasso Janopoulo at the piano. Filmed in 1936.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial.
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ArticleGreat string players of the past: Joseph Szigeti plays Prokofiev
Joseph Szigeti performs an excerpt from the Andante of Prokofiev's Sonata no.2 for violin and piano in D major, op. 94b with Arthur Balsam, from The Art of Joseph Szigeti, VAI DVD 4269. Szigeti is one of the players featured in our special edition October issue, guest edited by Steven Isserlis. ...
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ArticleGreat string players of the past: Kreisler
Silent film of the violinist offers a tantalising glimpse into his technique
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ArticleGreat string players of the past: Casals plays Bach
Pablo Casals performs Bach's G major Cello Suite in the Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa in Prades, France, in 1954. Casals is one of the players featured in our special edition October issue, guest edited by Steven Isserlis. Find out more about the issue, order your copy, or download the digital edition.
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ArticleGreat string players of the past: Szigeti performs Schubert
Joseph Szigeti performs Franz Schubert's 1856 work 'The Bee' op.13 no. 9 with pianist Harry Kaufman, in the 1944 film Hollywood Canteen.Szigeti is one of the players featured in our special edition October issue, guest edited by Steven Isserlis. Find out more about the issue, order your copy, or download the digital edition. Find ...
