All Video articles – Page 58
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VideoYo-Yo Ma performs Bach to dignitaries
The cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs the Sarabande from Bach’s Cello Suite No 5 to world leaders in Paris on Sunday as part of the events marking the centenary of the Armistice.
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VideoDocumentary on Florian Leonhard
Florian Leonhard, the world-renowned maker and restorer of fine violins, tells his story, with contributions from Leonidas Kavakos and Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Filmed at Leonhard’s workshop in London.
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VideoDavid Leonard Wiedmer and Léa Trombert in comic promo
Léa Trombert and David Leonard Wiedmer, who share a workshop in Lyon, France, star in what starts looking like a standard promotional video. David Leonard Wiedmer won a number of medals at the 2018 VSA Competition, including Gold for violin, Gold for cello (in collaboration with Damien Gest) and Silver ...
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VideoRay Chen plays Paganini in the first round of Menuhin Competition 2008
For Ray Chen, the 2008 Menuhin Competition which turbo boosted his career started here, with Paganini’s Caprice no.5. Chen, then 19, won the event before going on to also win the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.
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VideoTianyou Ma performs at Music for Youth Proms 2018
Chinese violinist Tianyou Ma performing at the Music for Youth Proms lunchtime concert on Tuesday 6 November. Ma was a prizewinner at the 2018 Menuhin Competition, winning 4th Prize and the Bach Prize. Music for Youth is an organisation that gives more than 40,000 children performing opportunities across the UK ...
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VideoNew Greenpeace campaign featuring violinist Pekka Kuusisto
Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto is featured in Greenpeace’s latest film as part of its campaign to protect the Great Northern Forest. ‘Forests have always been a source of inspiration in art, but nowadays they are becoming more and more a source of worry and sadness too, as we see that ...
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VideoTeaser for Mischa Maisky documentary
A teaser for a documentary about cellist Mischa Maisky, the great ’performing animal’, to be released in 2020. Featuring contributions from Maxim Vengerov, Evgeny Kissin, Valery Gergiev and others.
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VideoHow to Fake in Orchestra
Faking it: the great taboo of orchestral playing. Here’s how to do it safely and efficiently.
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VideoItzhak Perlman returns to the stage of his US debut
60 years after making his US debut as a 13-year-old prodigy on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’, Itzhak Perlman returns to the same stage for ’The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.’
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VideoHungarian Dance no.5 arranged for cello & piano – Jean-Guihen Queyras, Alexandre Tharaud
Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Tharaud perform their own transcription of Brahms’ Hungarian Dance no.5, originally written for violin and piano. The duo has recorded the whole set of dances along with the composer’s two cello sonatas. The Strad review reads: ‘The players’ idiomatic arrangements of six of Brahms’s Hungarian Dances ...
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VideoOttawa Symphony experiments with 3D printed instruments
The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra ‘3D String Theory’ project is culminating with a performance on Sunday 4 November. ‘To explore the new creative possibilities that technology brings to music, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra has commissioned Ottawa violin maker Charline Dequincey, Creadditive designer Laurent Lacombe and the Industrial Technology Centre in Winnipeg ...
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VideoScottish Ensemble & Andersson Dance: Prelude – skydiving from a dream
As a follow-up to their first collaboration Goldberg Variations – ternary patterns for insomnia, Scottish Ensemble and Andersson Dance will be premiering a new piece based around Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue, Bach’s Art of Fugue and Lutosławski’s Preludes. ‘Fusing music and movement, musician and dancer, Prelude – skydiving from a dream ...
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VideoSheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason on the Andrew Marr Show
The musical siblings talk Shostakovich, Jacqueline du Pré and friendly sibling competition with Andrew Marr, before playing the second movement of Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata.
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VideoPaulo Cello Competition winner Brannon Cho plays Bach
In this video from the final of the Paulo Cello Competition in Finland, American cellist and first prizewinner Brannon Cho perfoms the Allemande from Bach’s Cello Suite no.6 as an encore after the concerto final Read: Paulo Cello Competition names winner
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VideoGautier Capuçon & Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester cellos
Gautier Capuçon and the cello section of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester perform the ‘Requiem’ from Anne Wilson’s Lament (originally for solo cello with cello quartet)
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VideoThe Strad Calendar 2019: the ‘Kustendyke’ Stradivarius of 1699
Our 2019 calendar brings together twelve of the finest instruments ever made by Antonio Stradivari, all of which were on display at the Tokyo Stradivarius Festival, where the video below was taken. Description by Alessandra Barabaschi
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VideoViolinist Rachel Barton Pine in duet with her daughter
In this video from American Public Media’s ‘Performance Today’, Rachel Barton Pine performs with a budding violinist: her 7-year-old daughter, Sylvia
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VideoDan Zhu plays the 1714 'Da Vinci' Stradivarius surrounded by 20 other Strads
Dan Zhu plays the 1714 ‘Da Vinci’ Stradivarius at the Tokyo Stradivarius Festival, just before he performs Bach’s Chaconne in concert on the same violin.
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VideoMassed cellos play James Brown at New Directions Cello Festival
This video was made on 15 July at the final concert of the New Directions Cello Festival Köln 2018 at the WDR-Funkhaus Köln. The arrangemend of James Brown’s ‘I Feel Good’ is by festival co-director Gunther Tiedemann. The soloists are Rupert Gillett and Veit Steinmann
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VideoA modular 3D printed violin which actually sounds... ok
David Perry plays a traditional construction violin alongside the 3D printed Hovalin and two of his new Modular Fiddles. Perry first came to The Strad’s attention a few years ago when he developed the F-F-Fiddle, the first 3D printed electric violin that anyone could download and print (anyone with access ...
