All Video articles – Page 62
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VideoMusic loving dog interrupts recital in Brazil
This video was taken on Sunday 15 July at a concert at the Virtuosi Gravatá festival in the north-eastern Brazil city of Gravatá. The viola soloist Rafael Altino and pianist Victor Asuncion do their best to play on while the audience’s attention goes to the stage-invading dog Bolinha.
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VideoExperimental 1872 cello played by Raphaël Pidoux
In this video from the Musée de la musique at the Philharmonie de Paris, Raphaël Pidoux plays an experimental cello made by luthier Thomas Zach in 1872. The piece is the Humoreske op.11 no.2 by David Popper, the cellist who showcased this very instrument at the Vienna World’s Fair in ...
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VideoKyung Wha Chung plays Debussy's 'Beau Soir'
This work is the centrepiece of Kyung Wha Chung’s recent release on Warner Classics, featuring music by Fauré, Franck and Debussy. Read: Kyung Wha Chung: Beau Soir. Works by Fauré, Franck, Debussy [album review]
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VideoComparing Stradivari and Guarneri cellos with Pablo Ferrández
In this video, Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández plays two cellos side by side: the 1696 ‘Lord Aylesford’ Stradivari which he has on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation and a 1694 Giuseppe Guarneri ‘filius Andreae’ from J&A Beare in London.
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VideoWingsuit flyer and... trainee violin maker
This video from the BBC shows wingsuit flyer Sam Laming perform a death-defying leap and proximity flight over Mount Snowdon in Wales. In passing we learn that he is also a trainee violin maker, and there is a short clip of him in the workshop.
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VideoRenaud Capuçon performs Debussy's Clair de Lune with Lahav Shani
As an encore to the concert on 18 May 2018, Renaud Capuçon performs a transcription for violin and piano of Debussy’s Clair de Lune. The video is courtesy of France Musique, which has a new English language website at www.francemusique.com
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VideoViolin techniques with James Ehnes: ricochet
This set of short videos with Canadian violinist James Ehnes were published by CBC Music in 2016. They feature him discussing and demonstrating particular playing techniques. See ‘Related Video’ for the rest in the series
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VideoViolin techniques with James Ehnes: spiccato
This set of short videos with Canadian violinist James Ehnes were published by CBC Music in 2016. They feature him discussing and demonstrating particular playing techniques. See ‘Related Video’ for the rest in the series
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VideoViolin techniques with James Ehnes: straight bow
This set of short videos with Canadian violinist James Ehnes were published by CBC Music in 2016. They feature him discussing and demonstrating particular playing techniques. See ‘Related Video’ for the rest in the series
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VideoViolin techniques with James Ehnes: col legno
This set of short videos with Canadian violinist James Ehnes were published by CBC Music in 2016. They feature him discussing and demonstrating particular playing techniques. See ‘Related Video’ for the rest in the series
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VideoViolin techniques with James Ehnes: sul ponticello and sul tasto
This set of short videos with Canadian violinist James Ehnes were published by CBC Music in 2016. They feature him discussing and demonstrating particular playing techniques. See ‘Related Video’ for the rest in the series
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VideoViolin techniques with James Ehnes: double stops & chords
This set of short videos with Canadian violinist James Ehnes were published by CBC Music in 2016. They feature him discussing and demonstrating particular playing techniques. See ‘Related Video’ for the rest in the series
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VideoAnne Akiko Meyers plays the Star-Spangled Banner
In this video from WQXR, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers – a recent Strad cover star – performs her own arrangement of the US national anthem on the ‘Vieuxtemps’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’
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VideoGildas Quartet – Janáček: String Quartet no.1, 'The Kreutzer Sonata', 4th movement
The Gildas Quartet performs the final movement of Leoš Janáček’s 1923 String Quartet no.1, subtitled ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’. The work is named after Leo Tolstoy’s novella of the same name (which itself features Beethoven’s famous violin sonata) in which a woman is murdered by her husband who suspects her of ...
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VideoGeorges Méliès silent film fragment featuring violinist
This fragment is all that survives from illusionist and silent film pioneer Georges Méliès’ Lully ou Le violon brisé (Lully or The Broken Violin). In the film, a cook’s violin playing gets the entire staff dancing until the master of the house arrives. Méliès is best known for his film ...
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VideoJoseph Joachim plays Bach
In 1903, at the age of 72, Joseph Joachim became the first prominent classical violinist to be recorded. From those sessions comes this Bach G minor Adagio. Although he will have been well past his prime, these recordings do bear witness to the restrained and pure style of the man ...
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VideoSignum Quartet: Arrangement of Schubert's song 'Du bist die Ruh'
From the album ‘Aus Der Ferne’, featuring Schubert quartets and lieder arrangements. The album was praised by The Strad’s reviewer, with this particular track exemplifying the quartet’s ‘readings’ greatest beauty … the intimate emotional trinity they intertwine of dignity, fragility and pain’. Read: In the studio with the Signum Quartet ...
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VideoNexus Chamber Music Chicago: A Seated Staccato
Two members of NEXUS, a Chicago based chamber music collective, share a somewhat laid-back version of violin showpiece Hora Staccato Brian J. Hong, violin, Alexander Hersh, cello
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News15-strong double bass ensemble plays Joe Hisaishi medley
A double bass ensemble from the School of Music at Korea’s National University of Arts performs a medley of Studio Ghibli film themes by Joe Hisaishi, in an arrangement by Yang Joon Suk.
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Video'Playing', a short film from St Mary's Music School, Edinburgh
Violinist Nicola Benedetti and cellist Steven Isserlis feature in this new short film showing them tutoring pupils from Scotland’s national music school, St Mary’s in Edinburgh. The teenage pupils on the brink of leaving the school are violinist Sophie Williams and cellist Hugh MacKay.
