All Video articles – Page 43
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VideoAspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Lynn Harrell
Cellist Lynn Harrell recalls a life-changing experience from his youth, when he watched his father sing Schubert’s Winterreise on stage at Aspen to a rapt audience
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VideoViolinist Tasmin Little performs Saint-Saëns at the Proms 1995
Violinist Tasmin Little, who has recently announced her retirement from the stage at the age of 54, performs Saint-Saëns’s Introduction et rondo capriccioso at the BBC Proms in 1995. Little is also interviewed as part of a feature on whether string players should retire from performance in The Strad’s ...
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VideoAspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Simone Porter
Violinist Simone Porter on how sightreading parties at Aspen opened her eyes to the connective power of music making
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VideoJack Liebeck on recording Brahms and Schoenberg
The violinist explains his personal story behind his new album.
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VideoAlisa Weilerstein deconstructs the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite no.1 in G major
The American soloist offers her insight into how Bach created music of such timelessness
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VideoLawrence Power plays a Brexit Polka
A timely little polka from British violist Lawrence Power. Listen carefully to hear all 28 (current) European national anthems.
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VideoYehudi Menuhin School student on a violin once played in Auschwitz
In this video, 18-year-old Kingsley Lin, who is currently studying at the Yehudi Menuhin School, performs on a violin once played by Rosa Levinsky in the Auschwitz Women’s Orchestra. Levinsky spent the last five months of the war in Bergen-Belsen, and on being released in 1945, was transferred to a ...
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VideoAspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Sarah Chang
Violinist Sarah Chang shares a moment from her childhood when she first learnt what it means to be part of an orchestra ‘from the inside’
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VideoSheku Kanneh-Mason and the Heath Quartet play Spring Song by Frank Bridge
Watch this new video of Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the Heath Quartet recording Spring Song by Frank Bridge. The piece is the second of Bridge’s 4 Short Pieces H.102 for violin and piano (1912), here scored in a new arrangement by Simon Parkin. The recording features on Kanneh-Mason’s new album, Elgar, ...
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VideoAspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Stefan Jackiw
Violinist Stefan Jackiw recalls an unusual assignment he received from legendary Aspen teacher Dorothy DeLay
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Video1987 documentary on Stradivari featuring Pinchas Zukerman
Pinchas Zukerman presents this 1987 documentary about Stradivari, also featuring Yo-Yo Ma Anne-Sophie Mutter and Charles Beare.
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VideoAugustin Hadelich plays Ysaÿe
Augustin Hadelich plays Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata for solo violin No. 4 in E minor, dedicated to Fritz Kreisler. This performance was filmed live in concert in Grünwald, Germany, on December 11 2018.
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VideoWe Are NY Phil: Associate Principal Viola Rebecca Young
We Are NY Phil, a video series featuring musicians of the Orchestra, brings you closer to Philharmonic musicians by focusing on their lives outside the concert hall and following the activities they are most passionate about. The second video of the series explores how humour plays a key role in ...
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VideoNew string quartet charts Apollo 11 mission to the moon
Composer Alistair Coleman’s piece, Moonshot, marks 50th anniversary of the lunar landing
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VideoBenedetti Foundation Orchestra play ‘Intermezzo’ from Cavalleria Rusticana
Nicola Benedetti leads the Benedetti Foundation Orchestra
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VideoSilkroad Ensemble performs Kinan Azmeh’s ‘Wedding’ at Tanglewood
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma came up with the idea of Silkroad, formerly named the Silk Road Project, in 1998, inspired by the historical Silk Road trading route that linked China with the West. The Silkroad Ensemble launched in 2000, comprising musicians from countries along this route. ‘We started as a group ...
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VideoTwoSetViolin: The Twelve Levels of Violin Playing
The musical double act abandon their usual hijinx in favour of something more serious for newbie violinists: a whistle-stop tour of what their violin-playing career could look like (with a bit of practice).
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VideoKyung Wha Chung plays Dvořák’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra
In this tribute concert to Riccardo Muti from the 1980s, the violinist Kyung Wha Chung plays Dvořák’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op 11, with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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VideoJupiter String Quartet plays Debussy’s String Quartet
In this video, the Jupiter String Quartet (violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel and cellist Daniel McDonough) plays Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, Op 10, at the Bowdoin International Music Festival on July 30, 2018.
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VideoNine countries in lockdown
On the ninth day of Christmas we bring to you a reimagination of an ancient chant, Karpur Gauram, bringing together 17 musicians in lockdown from 9 countries, filmed in April 2020. Credits: Music Composed and Produced by Kartik Shah Vocals - Nirali Kartik @Nirali Kartik Vocals - Akshat Parikh ...
