All Video articles – Page 8
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VideoJascha Heifetz and Erick Friedman play the Largo from Bach’s Double Violin Concerto
The classic duo plays Bach in this video from 1962
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Ray Chen plays Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Ray Chen gives a solo rendition of this cosy little number
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Lisa Batiashvili and Daniel Barenboim record Tchaikovsky and Sibelius - album trailer
In this behind-the-scenes film, The Strad’s January 2020 issue cover star Lisa Batiashvili describes recording the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin
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Vilde Frang plays Paganini and Schubert
‘With this recording I mainly wanted to focus on song’
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Frankfurt Radio Symphony
The cellist - interviewed for Sentimental Work in the January issue of The Strad - performs Elgar’s Cello Concerto in this concert from 29th November with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony under Nicholas Collon.
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The Barbican Quartet plays Mozart’s String Quartet K428
Watch the London-based ensemble performing at the Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition 2019. The group won first prize, and have recently joined the St John’s Smith Square Young Artists scheme. Read: Barbican Quartet joins St John’s Smith Square Young Artists scheme
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Lisa Batiashvili plays Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
Lisa Batiashvili, our cover star for the January 2020 issue of The Strad, plays Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in this performance with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra under Gábor Takács-Nagy. The performance took place last September at the 2019 Tsinandali Festival in Tsinandali, Kakheti, Georgia.
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Verona Quartet perform Janáček’s String Quartet no.2 ‘Intimate Letters’ I: Andante
Watch the Verona Quartet perform Janáček’s String Quartet no.2 ‘Intimate Letters’ I: Andante.
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Ligeti Quartet perform The Holly and the Ivy by Tom Green
’Exploded Christmas carols to crush the spirit of Noddy Holder’, is how composer Tom Green describes his new collection of five reconfigured seasonal tunes, Solstice Songs, a commission from the Ligeti Quartet. The London-based quartet will perform the new works in a programme alongside Robin Haigh’s String Quartet (2019) ...
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Rostropovich: a 90-minute documentary
A documentary that delves into all aspects of the cellist’s life and career - from his four-day courtship of his wife to that 1968 performance of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto at the Proms, coinciding with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. With contributions from Rostropovich’s wife Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya, and the ...
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Danish String Quartet: Schnittke Music Video
In this music video, featuring the Danish String Quartet, actor Peter Kirk underlines the quirkiness and darkness in Schnittke’s String Quartet No.3. The video is shot on the island of Møn in south-eastern Denmark.
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Prepare with Nicky: Introduction - Meet Your Tutors
With only 33 days until the Benedetti Sessions - Nicola Benedetti’s series of orchestra-based weekend workshops which aim to address the needs of young musicians and of teachers - the violinist is launching a video a day. And she’s starting by introducing some of the tutors involved. ‘The good news’, ...
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Mariss Jansons conducts Rossini’s William Tell Overture
Guest cellist Mischa Meyer performs the opening solo
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Kronos Quartet performs One Earth, One People, One Love
Watch the official music video for One Earth, One People, One Love, the final movement of Sun Rings, a 2002 collaboration between Kronos and composer Terry Riley. The first full recording of Sun Rings was released by Nonesuch Records in August.The piece is scored for string quartet, chorus and ...
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason recording Elgar at Abbey Road Studios
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason recording the Elgar Cello Concerto with Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, in June 2019 at Abbey Road Studios. The 20-year-old soloist will release his new album, Elgar, on Decca Classics on 10 January 2020. The recording also includes a new arrangement of Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ ...
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Gautier Capuçon plays Bloch to mark anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The cellist Gautier Capuçon plays the Prière from Ernest Bloch’s ‘from Jewish Life’ at the memorial of the Berlin wall to mark the 30th anniversary of the Fall of Berlin Wall.
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Jack Liebeck plays Stuart Hancock concerto cadenza
Stuart Hancock’s album ‘Raptures’, including the Violin Concerto performed by Jack Liebeck, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Lev Parikian, is released on 15 November 2019 on Orchid Classics Read: Violinist Jack Liebeck and composer Stuart Hancock interview each other Read: The Strad Masterclass: Jack Liebeck ...
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My Space: Stephen Quinney
The Toronto luthier gives a demonstration of his craft in a 2017 episode of the series History in the Making
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Tamsin Waley-Cohen plays CPE Bach
Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and pianist James Ballieu perform the allegretto from CPE Bach’s Violin Sonata in C major (Wq. 73) in a Scala Session recorded on Wednesday 6 November 2019.
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Rostropovich plays Bach at the Checkpoint Charlie
This footage from November 1989, two days after the official fall of the Berlin Wall, shows Mstislav Rostropovich giving an impromptu performance of Bach’s cello suites at the Checkpoint C crossing point between East and West Berlin. Read our article ‘Witnesses to the fall’, from the March 2014 ...
