All Video articles – Page 25
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VideoJohan Dalene plays Rautavaara’s Notturno
The Swedish violinist Johan Dalene and Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland play Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Notturno e danza: I. Notturno. Johan Dalene talks about his Life Lessons in the March issue of the Strad.
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VideoRachel Barton Pine plays Beethoven’s Violin Concerto unaccompanied
In January, the American violinist Rachel Barton Pine launched 24 in 24: Concertos from the Inside with RBP, a series in which she is performing 24 different violin concertos live and unaccompanied in 24 weeks. As part of the performance, she also delivers a pre-concert talk, and confides what she ...
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VideoYoung Irish string players perform Down by the Salley Gardens
Based in Limerick, Ireland, Sing Out With Strings (SOWS) is an organisation that provides free long-term music teaching to children in areas of social and economic disadvantage. In a performance organised by the Limerick St Patrick’s Day Festival, the SOWS players are joined by members of the Irish Chamber Orchestra ...
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VideoViolist Adrien La Marca talks to conductor and violinist Christoph Poppen during quarantine
During his 21-day Hong Kong quarantine, the French violist Adrien La Marca spoke to the German conductor and violinist Christoph Poppen, who is in the same hotel, waiting to conduct a concert with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and La Marca on 27 March. Read: Christian-Pierre La Marca: Cello 360 Read: ...
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VideoYo-Yo Ma gives impromptu concert at a vaccination centre
After receiving his second dose of the Covid vaccine, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma put on an impromptu concert at a vaccination centre in Massachusetts. He played Ave Maria and music from a Bach Cello Suite in the waiting room of the Berkshire Community College. Watch: Juilliard students ‘do’ ...
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VideoMaxim Vengerov’s daughter Lisa interrupts live masterclass
Maxim Vengerov’s pianist daughter makes an unexpected appearance during the filming of his live online masterclass
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ArticleDouble bassist François Rabbath demonstrates his crab technique
In honour of François Rabbath, who turns 90 today, we are republishing content from our archive related to the French-Syrian double bassist
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VideoEsther Abrami and Alexandra Whittingham play Piazzolla’s Libertango
Today is the 100th anniversary of Astor Piazzolla’s birth. To celebrate, here is a video featuring violinist Esther Abrami and guitarist Alexandra Whittingham in a rendition of the composer’s Libertango. Read our feature marking the 100th anniversary of Piazzolla’s birth, with details on his life, and tips on how to ...
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VideoRavel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello - complete with mechanical toys
Volinist Darragh Morgan and cellist Timothy Gill perform Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello in the middle of the night in a former cardboard factory in Dalston, East London. Directed by Jonathan Berman, the video ’lets the audience into a surreal, nocturnal dreamscape of Ravel’s love of wind-up, mechanical toys.’ ...
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VideoLech Antonio Uszynski plays Toccata and Fugue on the viola
The Swiss-Polish violist Lech Antonio Uszynski plays Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor in a version for solo viola. Read: 5 reasons why I love playing viola transcriptions Read: Why we should all be violists
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VideoCamille Thomas performs Purcell in the Louvre
Camille Thomas plays ‘When I am Laid in Earth’ from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in an empty Louvre. The video is part of the Franco-Belgian cellist’s project which has seen her playing in various empty museums during the Covid-19 crisis. Watch: Camille Thomas plays Fazil Say’s ‘Never Give ...
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VideoFrancesca Dego plays Paganini’s ‘Il Cannone’ violin
Our March 2021 cover star Francesca Dego speaks about performing on Paganini’s ‘Il Cannone’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ of 1743 - and shares clips of herself playing the rarely accessed instrument
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VideoTwoSet Violin open up about mental health
Eddy Chen and Brett Yang of TwoSet Violin open up on the subject of mental health in order to help fellow musicians with similar struggles. The violin internet comedy duo say: ’We’re not experts in mental health, but as musicians who have experienced mental health issues, we hope by making ...
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VideoGrand Teton Music Festival On Location: Salt Lake City
This concert from the Grand Teton Music Festival on location series (a 5-concert digital chamber music series featuring small ensembles, recorded and produced remotely in the home cities of Festival Orchestra musicians ) was held at the Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, Utah on 25 February, with a ...
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VideoClaudio and Oscar Bohórquez and Gustavo Beytelmann play Piazzolla
To mark the 100th centenary of the Argentinian tango legend, Astor Piazzolla, brothers Claudio and Oscar Bohórquez are releasing an album together with Piazzolla’s contemporary and ensemble colleague Gustavo Beytelmann – Piazzolla: Patagonia Express – on the Berlin Classics label. In this video, they play one of the featured works ...
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VideoAlexander Hersh plays the serenade from Debussy’s Sonata for Piano and Cello
In this video - the second in a series fusing music and narrative - cellist Alexander Hersh plays the serenade from Debussy’s Cello and Piano with pianist Victor Asunción. Hersh says: ‘With the onset of a worldwide pandemic, I’ve come to regard beautifully conceived and filmed classical music videos as ...
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VideoCellist Nicholas Gold plays The Swan in the snow
In the video, the American cellist Nicholas Gold plays Saint-Saëns’s The Swan in the snow. Gold says: ‘my friend convinced me to go outside and play the cello in this rare snow storm in Nashville, TN. You can obviously hear the cello pegs fall and I said “peg slip” ...
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VideoDebussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano: a film fusing music and narrative
In this video - the first in a series fusing music and narrative - cellist Alexander Hersh plays Debussy’s Cello and Piano with pianist Victor Asunción. Hersh says: ‘With the onset of a worldwide pandemic, I’ve come to regard beautifully conceived and filmed classical music videos as an existential imperative ...
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VideoViktoria Mullova plays Mozart in 1989
In this video the Soviet-born violinist Viktoria Mullova plays Mozart’s Violin Concerto No 5 with Das Württembergische Kammerorchester Heilbronn under Jörg Faerber in 1989 - just a few years after escaping from the Soviet Union at the age of 23. Watch: Viktoria Mullova plerforms Bach Violin Concertos Read: ...
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VideoViolinist Anne-Sophie Mutter performs Mendelssohn aged 14
Anne-Sophie Mutter performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Munich Philharmonic conducted by Gerd Albrecht in 1978 at the age of 14. Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter on Herbert von Karajan and John Williams Read: ‘Extremes of constant vibrato or none at all do not solve musical problems,’ says violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter