All Video articles – Page 125
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ArticleHeifetz saves the day
Watch Heifetz playing himself in the classic 1939 film They Shall Have Music, performing Saint-Saëns's Introduction and rondo capriccioso and saving a music school from financial ruin
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ArticleBiber's 'Rosenkranz' Sonata no.4 €“ Ciacona
In the February issue, Elizabeth Wallfisch gives a detailed guide to this intricate Baroque gem. Here's Susanne Lautenbacher tackling the violin part.
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ArticleFélix Lajkó: 'A madárnak'
Hungarian violinist Félix Lajkó, the cover star of The Strad's January 2013 issue, performs a self-composed tune inspired by birdsong.
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ArticleJohannes Moser: Magnetar
In the January issue, soloists discuss the differences in performing on electric instruments. Here, cellist Johannes Moser talks about Enrico Chapela's concerto Magnetar, premiered in 2011
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ArticleBlind Ear Music
In the January issue, violinist Kristin Lee and composer Adam Reifsteck discuss 'Blind Ear Music' where the pieces are composed 'in real time'. Here's more information, with a sample of how it sounds.
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ArticleBartók: Divertimento for string orchestra
In the January 2013 issue, Bradley Creswick discusses playing the first violin part of Bartók's Divertimento. Here's a performance of the first movement by I Solisti di Zagreb
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ArticleTeppo-Hauta Aho: Kadenza
In the December issue, bassist David Murray reports on the Bass2012 convention in Copenhagen, where a concert of Teppo-Hauta Aho's music was a highlight. Here's Enrico Fagone performing at the concert.
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ArticlePlaying cello in the field
In the January 2013 issue we profile Hungarian violinist Félix Lajkó, who has played to Lipizzaner stallions in Vienna. Well here's a cow-whispering Dutch cellist, Harriet Krijgh.
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ArticleHoffmeister's Violone Concerto in E flat Major
In the December issue, double bassist Edicson Ruiz takes us through the first movement of this 18th-century concerto. Here he is with the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar under Christian Vásquez
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ArticleElliott Carter: String Quartet no.2
Possibly one of the most difficult works in the quartet repertoire, but the one that netted the late Elliott Carter his first Pulitzer prize.
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ArticleHow not to treat a cello
As the world goes James Bond mad with the release of his latest film, don't forget what he once did to a cello. Cellists of a sensitive nature avert your eyes...
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ArticleLeila Josefowicz plays Salonen
In the October issue, Leila Josefowicz discusses the creation of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Concerto, which involved a nine-month collaboration between the soloist and the composer.
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ArticleRussian violinist improvises with Dave Brubeck
A lovely clip from a Dave Brubeck recital at Moscow Conservatory in the 1980s, during which a young violinist in the audience gets up and plays along with him.
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ArticlePractice Diary: The Miró Quartet plays Schubert's Quartettsatz
In the November issue, the Miró Quartet's second violinist William Fedkenheuer explains how the four players prepare for a recording of Schubert’s Quartettsatz. This live recording was filmed at the studios of KLRU-TV in Austin, Texas.Click here to read the Practice DiarySubscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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ArticleThe Miró Quartet plays Schubert's Quartettsatz
Clip of Schubert's Quartettsatz by The Miro Quartet. Filmed at the studios of KLRU TV in Austin, Texas.Read the Miró Quartet's Practice Diary on rehearsing the Quartettsatz in our November 2013 issue, available on 25 October.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a ...
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ArticleInternational Viola Congress 2012
In the September issue we report from this year's International Viola Congress. Here's one of the highlights: the world premiere of Mikel Kuehn's Colored Shadows, performed by violist John Graham
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ArticleJulia Fischer plays Paganini
In the September issue, Felix Andrievsky selects Paganini's Caprice no.2 as his favourite study. Here's a performance by Julia Fischer
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ArticlePablo Casals plays Bach's Cello Suite no.1
In the October issue, editor Ariane Todes reports from the Casals Festival, which still takes place annually in the French village of Prades. Here, the great cellist performs in the village's Abbaye Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, in a film made in 1954. You can find out more about the issue ...
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ArticleJános Starker: King of Cellists
Joyce Geeting, author of János Starker: King of Cellists, is interviewed by Lorraine Hull and Bill Smithers in Santa Barbara, California about her book, career, music and János Starker, whom Geeting claims is the most influential person in the history of the cello. Joyce Geeting knew Starker personally, ...
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ArticleRicci playing Paganini aged 12
The late, great violinist shows why he was one of the finest Paganini exponents ever
