All Video articles – Page 121
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ArticleJordi Savall: Balkan Spirit
Trailblazing multi-instrumentalist Jordi Savall is the cover star of our July 2013 issue, in which he discusses his early years, his popularising of long-forgotten repertoire, his work as a conductor and teacher, and his latest project Balkan Spirit, which focuses on the music of the Balkan countries. ...
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ArticleIda Haendel: I Am the Violin
I Am the Violin is a 2004 documentary about violinist Ida Haendel, written and directed by Paul Cohen and produced by IDTV in Amsterdam. Read editor Ariane Todes' thoughts on Ida Haendel and her latest CD The great violinist offers her insights into Bach's Chaconne (from our ...
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ArticleComedy moments: Szigeti spars with Jack Benny
The Hungarian violinist plays stooge to the great comedian
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ArticleWhen they were young: Vadim Repin
A documentary follows the violin star as a twelve-year-old
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ArticleComedy moments: Woody Allen plays cello in a marching band
'He had no conception of the instrument. He was blowing into it'
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ArticleGreat teachers on film: Mstislav Rostropovich
The Russian cellist coaches at the Kronberg Academy
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ArticleMenuhin plays Schumann
Yehudi Menuhin performs the second movement of Schumann's troubled Violin Concerto
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ArticleJack Benny demonstrates the significance of instrument comparisons
Classic Jack Benny violin comedy
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ArticleIona Brown performs The Lark Ascending
Violinist Iona Brown died on 5 June 2004. Here's one of her best-known Vaughan Williams recordings, made in 1972 with Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. This recording was enthusiastically received on its initial release, capturing the imagination of the record-buying public. ...
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ArticleTchaikovsky's Song Without Words played by Alexander Sitkovetsky
Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky gives a detailed insight into his practice regime in our June issue. Over the course of single day he experiments with playing without a shoulder rest, tackles some tricky cadenzas and looks over the Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Mozart Fourth and Shostakovich First concertos.Here's an archive performance by the ...
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ArticleThe Alarius Ensemble plays Rosenmüller
In the June issue, viola da gamba player Philippe Pierlot chooses the Alarius Ensemble's performance of this sonata by Johann Rosenmüller as one of his five favourite recordings of all time. 'Their interpretation still sounds to me completely modern, even after 50 years. The musicians inspired me ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter: Carmen Fantasy
French composer Georges Bizet died on 3 June 1875, exactly three months after the premiere of his most famous work, Carmen. Here's Anne-Sophie Mutter performing Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy in 2012, with the Tanglewood Youth Orchestra under conductor Andris Nelsons. Read more about Bizet and Sarasate in the ...
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ArticleSzymon Goldberg: Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
Polish-born American violinist Szymon Goldberg (1 June 1909–19 July 1993) made this recording of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto on 4 September 1957, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Eduard van Beinum. Recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh. The second volume of Szymon Goldberg's complete commercial recordings was published earlier this ...
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ArticleVadim Repin plays a Tchaikovsky encore
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky finished writing his Souvenir d'un lieu cher on 31 May 1878 – 135 years ago. Here, Vadim Repin performs the 'Mélodie' in E flat major as an encore, with Nikolai Lugansky at the piano.
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ArticleOistrakh plays Bartók's Violin Concerto no.1
Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto no.1 received its world premiere on 30 May 1958 – 50 years after its composition in 1907–1908. David Oistrakh was an early champion of the concerto, and performs here with the Moscow Radio Orchestra under Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The recording was made on 24 December ...
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ArticleHeifetz, Piatigorsky, Primrose
On 29 May 1962 this recording of Beethoven's Serenade op.8 won a Grammy award for Best Chamber Music Performance. Recorded 15–22 August 1960 by Jascha Heifetz (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) and William Primrose (viola). Listen to Heifetz and Primrose performing Handel's Passacaglia.
