All Video articles – Page 69
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FocusKian Soltani on his debut album and Robert Schumann
In this video from Deutsche Grammophon, cellist Kian Soltani, talks about his debut album, due for release in January 2018. Soltani signed with DG earlier this year and has recently won the Lucerne Festival’s Credit Suisse Young Artist Award and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival’s Leonard Bernstein Award
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VideoCan you hear the difference between a cheap and expensive violin bow?
Violinist Esther Abrami visits Florian Leonhard Fine Violins to try three bows: a $40.000 François Voirin, a $90.000 Joseph Henry, and a $160.000 Dominique Peccatte - and compare them to one worth €500. The violin is a 1690 Stradivari.
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VideoAmit Peled on 'A Cello Named Pablo'
This video from Washington DC based WDCW news features cellist Amit Peled talking about a new children’s book about him and the Goffriller cello once played by Pablo Casals Watch: Video: how I came to play Pablo Casals’s 1733 Goffriller cello, by Amit Peled
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VideoChiaroscuro Quartet: A tribute to our suitcases and British Airways
It sounds like the members of the Chiaroscuro Quartet, led by Alina Ibragimova, have been having some airline trouble – although for a change this isn’t related to taking their instruments as hand luggage but rather the disappearance of their hold luggage.
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VideoViktoria Mullova plays encore by her son, Misha Mullov-Abbado
Filmed on 12 December, this video shows Viktoria Mullova at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie playing an encore composed by her son, jazz bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado. The work, ‘Brazil’, was premiered by the violinist in 2014 as part of her ‘Stradivarius in Rio’ project.
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VideoHenning Kraggerud plays Vivaldi's winter in the Arctic circle
In this video, Henning Kraggerud and the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra play the first movement of Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ from The Four Seasons. Kraggerud’s recording of the full cycle, along with his own companion pieces, was released earlier this year. The exterior scenes featuring Kraggerud were filmed near Tromsø, in north ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman plays klezmer music
'When you're dealing with music, you're dealing with the soul of the society' This video is an clip from a 1995 PBS documentary which followed violinist Itzhak Perlman as he joined four klezmer groups – Brave New World, The Klezmatics, Andy Statman and the Klezmer Conservatory Band – to perform ...
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VideoRachel Barton Pine plays Metallica guitar solo on her Guarneri 'del Gesù'
In this video from Classic FM, American violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays the solo from her transcription of ‘One’ by Metallica. A complete performance of the song arrangement can be seen here. Barton Pine is a known heavy metal fan, and was a member of band Earthen Grave from 2008 ...
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VideoPerspectives: Janine Jansen and her musical upbringing
In this video for Carnegie Hall, violinist Janine Jansen discusses her musical upbringing, her influences, and why she gravitates towards chamber music. Jansen’s Carnegie Hall Perspectives series continues - find out more here.
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Video'Inside Colour' for violin solo by Deborah Pritchard
Deborah Pritchard yesterday won a British Composer Award for Inside Colour, a work for solo violin Commissioned for the London Sinfonietta Shorts Series, with funding from Lark Insurance. Deborah Pritchard with her British Composer Award Pritchard, who describes herself as synaesthetic, used images of the Aurora Borealis ...
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VideoPekka Kuusisto's home videos: a Finnish folk song about saunas
In the latest of his ongoing series of Finnish folk song videos for the Philharmonia Orchestra, Pekka Kuusisto plays a song about heating up the sauna.
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VideoGuy Johnston plays Bach in King's College Chapel on a 1714 cello by David Tecchler
British cellist Guy Johnston plays the prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 in the chapel of King’s College, Cambridge. His cello was built in Rome in 1714 by David Tecchler and is the subject of an ongoing project begun in 2014 by Johnston to ...
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VideoSteven Isserlis plays Bach on 'trench' cello
In this video from Classic FM we hear Steven Isserlis on the cello once played by Harold Triggs of the Royal Sussex Regiment in the trenches of the First World War. Read: Steven Isserlis’s trench cello encores
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VideoKristan Harvey & Nicola Benedetti - Leaving Lerwick Harbour
Fiddle duet of ‘Leaving Lerwick Harbour’ by Willie Hunter. Performed at the Clyde Auditorium in March 2012 by Kristan Harvey and Nicola Benedetti.
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VideoFinding Bespoke: The Violinmaker – A film by Michael Bernard featuring Benning Violins
Filmmaker Michael Bernard’s short film in his ‘Finding Bespoke’ series visits Benning Violins, a four-generation lutherie workshop in Los Angeles. Eric Benning is featured in the December 2017 issue of The Strad’s ‘My Space’ column – to read the full article, download the issue on desktop computer, ...
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VideoHilary Hahn plays Max Richter's 'Mercy'
In this clip from American public radio programme A Prairie Home Companion, Hilary Hahn plays Mercy by Max Richter, a piece written for her for the 2013 album In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores. The pianist is Jessica Osborne.
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VideoEdgar Russ: The right soundpost position
Continuing his YouTube series, Cremona-based luthier Edgar Russ talks about how to work out the correct position of the soundpost
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VideoChristian Tetzlaff on his 2000 Greiner violin
Christian Tetzlaff switched from playing older instruments to a modern one built by the German luthier Stefan-Peter Greiner. In this video from the Czech Philharmonic he suggests that ”Stradivari and Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ were fantastic violin makers but their instruments are not good because they are old and Italian, but ...
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