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VideoJuilliard students ‘do’ Bolero with guests including Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma
Musicians and dancers from the Juilliard school give us their take on Ravel’s Bolero, with cameo appearances from Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Emanuel Ax and David Robertson.
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Violinist Arve Tellefsen and Trio no Treble perform Fiocco - all from their separate homes
The Norwegian violinist Arve Tellefsen performs Allegro by Hector-Joseph Fiocco, together with Trio no Treble. Recorded separately during the coronavirus in 2020.
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Metropolitan Orchestra violists perform tribute to colleague Vincent Lionti
The orchestra’s viola section came together for a performance Handel’s ‘Ombra mai fu’ dedicated to the memory of their colleague Vincent Lionti, who died due to complications related to Covid-19
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14 top violin soloists perform Bach’s Chaconne from home
Stars including Julia Fischer, Augustin Hadelich, Renaud Capuçon and Lisa Batiashvili each perform sections of the work, edited together to create a continuous performance
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Violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian and cellist Kian Soltani perform Kodály on Stradivari instruments
The two Beare’s International Violin Society Artists recently recorded the work at the Vienna Konzerthaus for their Moments Musicaux series
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Bow exercises with Pekka Kuusisto
In the first of a new series of violin exercise videos from Pekka Kuusisto - each focusing on a different aspect of technique - the Finnish violinist shares his favourite bow exercises. Kuusisto says: ‘I’ve learned these exercises from my long-time teacher, professor and gentleman Tuomas Haapanen at the ...
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Sitkovetsky Trio plays Beethoven’s Trio in E flat major
To tie in with the Sitkovetsky Trio’s newly released Beethoven recording on BIS , here is a video clip of them performing the first movement of the Trio in E-flat major, Op.70 No.2 .
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From my room orchestra: Pachelbel Canon
Students and staff from Trinity Laban’s Strings department have come together from their rooms around the world to create this rendition of Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major. Led by Professor Nic Pendlebury.
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Arensky Serenade: the COVID-19 Version
In this video Taiwanese-American violinist Paul Huang and pianist Helen Huang play the COVID-19 version of Arensky’s Serenade.
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Learn with Nicky: Winner announced
Nicola Benedetti announces the winner of ‘Learn with Nicky’, her online initiative inviting young musicians to learn and perform Elgar’s Salut d’amour
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Working from home: members of the Villiers Quartet together in isolation
Carmen Flores and Tamaki Higashi of the Villiers Quartet make the best of the current situation, performing Bach’s Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772.
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Cellist Laura van der Heijden talks about performance nerves
The British musician discusses how best to tackle and overcome a difficult issue for so many players
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Kronos Quartet performs digital world premiere
The four players, accompanied by vocalist Monk Hierotheos, perform ‘Antennae: A Fragment’ by Aleksandra Vrebalov
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Working from home: Slovak cellist Jozef Lupták mixes Bach, improvisation and singing
The Slovak cellist Jozef Lupták, artistic director of the Konvergenice festival in Bratislava, blends Bach, improvisation and singing
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Bach’s Badinerie in a Parking Lot
In their own spin on ‘Quarantine Sessions’, flautist Zacharias Tarpagkos and cellist Alex Botinis (from the Greek National Opera and the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra respectively) perform Bach’s Badinerie in a parking lot.
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An interview with luthier Renato Scrollavezza
The violin maker, who died in 2019, was one of the leading figures of Italian violin making in the 20th century
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Homespun Miniatures by Alex Woolf
As part of ‘At Home with LMP’ , the online initiative launchedthree weeks ago, the London Mozart Players is releasing a series of ‘Homespun Miniatures’ written by award-winning young composer Alex Woolf, the first of which had its premiere on Channel 4 News last week. Watch it here. The ...
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Working from home: UriPoste Jukebox
Locked down in Philadelphia, violinist Elena Urioste and her pianist husband Tom Poster invited people on social media to send in requests for pieces they could arrange and film themselves playing. Here, as a belated 21st birthday present for cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who asked if we might arrange some ...
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Yo-Yo Ma and Youth Music Culture Guangdong perform Bach
Ma is artistic director of the annual training programme, which takes place in Guangzhou, China
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Violinist plays classical music for South Korea hospital patients
Won Hyung-joon performed Bach/Gounod’s Ave Maria just outside the hospital room occupied by a family of coronavirus patients
