All Video articles – Page 60
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VideoYo-Yo Ma: Why Bach is relevant in the 21st century
Yo-Yo Ma appears on The Andrew Marr Show, the BBC’s Sunday morning current events programme.
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VideoHilary Hahn plays Bach – 1997 debut album promo
This video, recently posted by Hilary Hahn on her facebook page, was made in 1997 for her debut recording Hilary Hahn Plays Bach. Teleased by Sony Classical, the album included the Partita no.3 in E Major, Partita no.2 in D Minor, and Sonata No. 3 in C Major. Hahn will ...
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VideoViolin maker Guy Rabut featured in Esquire video series 'Handmade'
This video, featuring New York based violin maker Guy Rabut, was made for Esquire.com’s ‘Handmade’ series in 2017. Director & Cinematographer - Josh K. Brede Creative Producer - Travis Gorzelsky Executive Producer - Anna Jimenez Producer - Christian Nilsson Associate Producer - Sara Cogan Editor - Travis Lee
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VideoEntire cello section joins in Gautier Capuçon's solo part
This video, filmed at the Teatro Verdi in Pordenone, is from a rehearsal of Dvořák’s cello concerto with Gautier Capuçon and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
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VideoKerson Leong plays Jean-Marie Leclair's Sonata No 5
The Canadian violinist Kerson Leong performs the third movement of Jean-Marie Leclair’s Sonata No 5 for 2 violins in duet with himself.
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VideoAbner Jairo Ortiz García: Bach Courante from Cello Suite no.4
Left-handed cellist Abner Jairo Ortiz García plays the Courante from Bach’s Cello Suite no.4 in E flat major. Biography courtesy of City Music Foundation: After winning First Prize at the 2014 National Cello Competition of Mexico and in April 2018, Jairo was chosen to be the second City Music Foundation ...
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VideoMasumi Per Rostad: Reger Viola Suite No. 1 in G minor
In this video from string maker D’Addario, Japanese-Norwegian violist Masumi Per Rostad performs Max Reger’s Viola Suite no.1 in G minor. Rostad writes: ‘Max Reger would often compress long harmonic progressions and jam them into just one or two beats. Therefore, I found it fitting to discover that his full ...
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ReviewPaganini’s music played on Paganini’s own instruments
Giulio Plotino (violin), Clemens Hagen (cello), Matteo Mela (guitar): works by Paganini
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VideoNancy Zhou performs Kreisler at Shanghai competition
American violinist Nancy Zhou, 25, no stranger to the competition circuit, here plays Fritz Kreisler’s Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice op.6 as part of the semi-final round of the Shanghai Isaac Stern Competition. Earlier in the video she plays Beethoven’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-flat Major, op.12 no.3.
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VideoGautier Capuçon takes wing in latest video clip
The french cellist’s recording of Fauré’s Après un rêve from his latest album Intuition is showcased in this video produced for Paris Aéroport filmed at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. The recording features the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris conducted by Douglas Boyd.
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VideoGabriele Ragghianti demonstrates Italian double bass bow hold
In this video from D’Addario Orchestral, double bassist Gabriele Ragghianti, who teaches at the Royal College of Music and the Luigi Boccherini Institute of Music, explains how to perfect an Italian bass bow hold. Ragghianti plays D’Addario Kaplan strings - click here for more information
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VideoSatu Vänskä performs the Allemande from Bach's Partita no.2
Satu Vänskä, principal violinist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, performs the Allemande from Bach’s Partita no.2 in D minor in the Barbican Theatre in London. The 1726 ‘Belgiorno’ Stradivari played by Vänskä plays is one of only two by the maker in Australia, both of which belong to the Australian ...
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VideoA six-string custom viola played by Henning Kraggerud
In this video, Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud amd jazz pianist Bugge Wesseltoft perform an inprovisation on a folk tune. Kraggerud is playing his custom-made ‘viola concorda’. ‘I was longing for a sound that I couldn’t produce, so I ordered a new instrument from Ariane Becker,’ he writes. ‘Listen to our ...
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VideoEurovision Young Musicians semi-final 2018
In these videos German violinist Mira Foron and Czech double bassist Indi Stivín give it their all in the semi-final of Eurovision Young Musicians 2018.
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VideoMexican cellists play Piazzolla
Cellist and conductor Amit Peled with his Peabody students and selected Mexican cellists perform for Festival de Musica de Camera de San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
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VideoMasterclass with Violinist Gábor Takács-Nagy
Violinist Gábor Takács-Nagy coaches Sirena Huang on Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata as part of a masterclass for the Classical Bridge Music Festival.
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VideoBach's Chaconne, performed by Johnny Gandelsman and the Limón Dance Company
In this video from WQXR, members of the New York based Limón Dance Company dance to Bach’s Chaconne played live by violinist Johnny Gandelsman (of Brooklyn Rider and Silk Road Ensemble). The choreography is by the company’s founder José Limón.
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FocusFour iconic pop arrangements for strings on YouTube
To go with our August issue article on the most compelling arrangers of pop songs, we’ve brought together some of the best examples from recent years
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VideoIntroducing the Baroque double bass
In this video from the London-based Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, double bassist Cecelia Bruggemeyer introduces the – or as she more accurately puts its, ‘a’ – Baroque double bass
