All Video articles – Page 73
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VideoNaples violin makers: Della Corte, Postiglione and Pistucci
Sean Bishop of Bishop Instruments & Bows in London talks us through some 19th-century Naples violin makers, some following Gagliano models and other with more individual touches. n.b. the video is flipped horizontally - Sean Bishop assures us his instruments are strung the usual way round
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VideoRachel Podger plays Biber's Rosary Sonata no.16, Passacaglia
English Baroque specialist Rachel Podger plays one of the earliest known works for solo violin, the Passacaglia from Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber’s Rosary Sonatas (also known as the Mystery Sonatas).
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VideoUpton Bass: Laminated or Solid Double Bass Ribs?
’When you get inside an old old instrument, you’ve got grafted pieces of wood, you’ve got linen cloth… it’s essentially bad plywood’. Gary Upton of Upton Bass in Mystic, Connecticut, explains the benefits of plywood ribs on a double bass.
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VideoMusic Of The Mind - a short film about music and the brain
In this partly dramatised short film based on true events, a violinist brain damaged in an accident nearly 30 years ago is given the opportunity to take part in music making through new technology developed by Plymouth University and the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in London. Rosemary Johnson was a ...
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VideoPekka Kuusisto plays Finnish folk song
In this second instalment of Pekka Kuusisto’s folk song videos from his home in Finland, the violinst plays a minuet from the village of Tuikka (Tjöck) in Ostrobothnia, a region of western Finland.
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VideoStéphane Grappelli live in 1978
In this video from 1978, legendary French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli plays live on Canadian television talk show 90 Minutes Live
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NewsEllinor D'Melon plays Mozart Violin Concerto no.5, 3rd movement
In this video, 15-year-old Ellinor D’Melon plays the Mozart’s Violin Concerto no.5 (3rd movement) with Freixenet Symphony Orchestra of the Queen Sofía College of Music in Madrid under conductor Zubin Mehta. D’Melon was born in Kingston, Jamaica, beginning violin lessons at the age of two and a half. She then ...
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VideoThe Violinist Leonidas Kavakos - excerpt from Deutsche Welle documentary
In this clip from the 2015 documentary The Violinist Leonidas Kavakos broadcast on Deutsche Welle, he makes a visit to Florian Leonhard Fine Violins to try out some instruments. Both Kavako’s previous Stradivari, the 1724 ’Abergavenny’, and his current 1734 ’Willemotte’ acquired earlier this year, have come via the London-based ...
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Video17-year-old Moné Hattori plays Ysaÿe Sonata no.2, (4th mvmnt, 'Les Furies')
Japanese violinist Moné Hattori, who won the inaugural Boris Goldstein International Violin Competition in 2015, joined the International Classical Artists roster earlier this year. The artist management agency posted this video last week. Hattori plays a 1743 violin by Pietro Guarneri of Venice.
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VideoMarc Sabbah plays Vieuxtemps' Capriccio 'Hommage à Paganini' for solo viola
From a live concert recording in Hoepertingen, Belgium, on 24 June. New Yorker Marc Sabbah, 29, is currently based in Brussels, where he performs with the National Orchestra of Belgium. He has taken first prizes at the Amsterdam National Viola Competition in 2013, the 2016 Rising Stars Grand Prix in ...
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VideoNuno Santos Violin - A Violin In The Most Unlikely Places
Portuguese violinist and surfer Nuno Santos has been taking his violin out into the giant waves at Nazaré – or rather a series of violins, since they don’t always survive intact. The Strad doesn’t condone putting a violin in the sea, whether it is cheap and mass-produced or not. However, ...
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VideoRay Chen teaches Harmonics
In the latest in Ray Chen’s ‘Masterclass Monday’ YouTube series, he looks at natural and artificial harmonics and offers some hard-won tips on getting them right
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VideoYo-Yo Ma and Condoleezza Rice perform Schumann's Fantasiestücke op.73
At the 2017 Kennedy Center Arts Summit in Washington D.C., host Yo-Yo Ma is joined onstage by former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice for a performance of Schumann’s Fantasierstücke op.73. The two have performed together before, in 2002, at the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Awards.
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VideoTen-year-old Leia Zhu plays Schubert Violin Sonata no.1 in D Major
Leia Zhu was born in Newcastle (UK) in 2006 and is currently a student at the Junior Guildhall in London and privately with Itzhak Rashkovsky.
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VideoRay Chen's comedy videos - vol.2
A compilation of funnies from the Taiwanese-Australian violin virtuoso, featuring turns from Daniel Hope, conductor Cristian Macelaru and others
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VideoAn Afternoon with Gregor Piatigorsky
Made not long before Piatigorsky’s death in 1976, this short film features him musing on life and music, and includes Raphael Wallfisch in his early twenties taking a lesson, as well as a close look at the 1714 ‘Batta’ Stradivari (now known as the ’Batta-Piatigorsky’). Filmed around the family home ...
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VideoAntoine Tamestit talks about his 1672 Stradivarius viola
In this video for the LSO, Tamestit talks through the unusual features of the ‘Mahler’ Stradivarius, named in honour of the composer, not because he owned it at any time. The instrument, on loan to Tamestit from the Habisreutinger Foundation, is thought to be the first viola by Stradivari. Tamestit ...
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VideoJames Ehnes plays the Ysaÿe Sonata no.3, 'George Enescu'
James Ehnes, who is artistic director of the Seattle Chamber Music festival, breaks out his 1715 ’Marsick’ Stradivari and gives an impromptu performance for festival staff
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VideoTrailer: Daniel Hope - The Sound of Life
This German-produced documentary slated for release on 19 October follows the violinist on a personal pilgrimage undertaken in 2016. Hope revisits his roots and through his travels we learn of the forces that shaped him as a person and a musician, from his Jewish grandparents who fled Nazi Germany to ...
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VideoJohan Dalene plays Ravel's Tzigane
In this video, then 15-year-old Johan Dalene performs in the final of the Polstjärne Prize with the Gothenberg Symphony in January 2017
