All Video articles – Page 95
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ArticleViolinist Ray Chen gives up bow staccato masterclass
Violinist Ray Chen shares his technique for mastering up bow staccato - making use of tremolo.Read The Strad's 6 ways to improve your staccato.Watch Ray Chen performing Ysaÿe’s Solo Sonata no.6 at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium in 2009 – which he later won.
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ArticleJi Young Lim performs Mozart at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2015
Ji Young Lim performs Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto at the 2015 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels - where she took home the €25,000 first prize.Ji Young Lim is one of five recent winners of international string competitions who talk about their strategies for success in The ...
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ArticleCellist Myles Jordan discusses bow changes
In The Strad's September 2015 issue, cellist Myles Jordan gives a detailed analysis of bow changes, particularly focusing on how mastering the collé change gives a seamless transition. Here he gives an audio–visual demonstration.
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ArticleMaxim Vengerov gives Sibelius Violin Concerto masterclass
Remember you are accompanying here - otherwise everyone will hear these exercises! It's very important not to take attention away from the theme.'Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Sibelius's Violin Concerto and speaks about the importance of emphasising the theme - even when the soloist is required to ...
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ArticleViolinist Jascha Heifetz performs Hora Staccato
Jascha Heifetz demonstrates impeccable bow control in up- and down-bow staccato in his arrangement of Dinicu's Hora Staccato. Read The Strad's 6 ways to improve your staccato.
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ArticleNicola Benedetti performs Shostakovich's Gadfly Romance at the Proms
Violinist Nicola Benedetti, The Strad's September 2015 issue cover star, performs the Romance from Shostakovich's Gadfly Suite with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Last Night of the Proms 2012 in London.Watch Benedetti's bow go flying during a rehearsal with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Edinburgh.Subscribe to ...
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ArticleCellist Austin Huntington performs Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso
Cellist Austin Huntington performs Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso with pianist Daniel Schlosberg at the age of 17.Huntington, now 21, was recently appointed principal cellist of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click ...
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ArticleCan classical music stimulate greater milk production in cows?
Usually I refuse to play in front of an audience that eats while listening, but I can make an exception for cows. Especially because they do not speak during a concert'As the countdown begins to this year's Cremona Mondomusica trade fair in Cremona, Italy (September 25-27, 2015), CremonaFiere ...
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ArticleNorwegian Chamber Orchestra dances its way through Grieg
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra gives a choreographed performance of the Gavotte from Grieg's Holberg Suite at the Norwegian Opera in 2012.Read The Strad’s article, ‘Playing by Heart’, about the increasing number of orchestras performing from memory in the August 2015 issue, out now.Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleViolinist David Garrett performs Mozart aged 14
A barely recognisable David Garrett gives an assured performance of the third movement of Mozart's Third Violin Concerto at the age of 14 in 1994 with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne conducted by Heinrich Schiff. Watch the violinist performing Tartini’s Devil’s Trill Sonata. Subscribe to The Strad ...
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ArticleRoman Totenberg performs Schumann on the 'Ames' Stradivarius
Violinist Roman Totenberg performs the first movement of Schumann's First Violin Sonata on the 'Ames' Stradivarius with pianist Artur Balsam in a recording from 1976.The 1734 ‘Ames’ Stradivarius, which was stolen from Totenberg in 1980, was recently recovered after 35 years.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital ...
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ArticleViolinist Roman Totenberg performs Szymanowski aged 90
Violin soloist and teacher Roman Totenberg performs Szymanowski's Concerto no.1 with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra in February 2001 in celebration of his 90th birthday. Totenberg died at the age of 101 in 2012 and taught at the university up to his death.The 1734 'Ames' Stradivarius, which was ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs Winter from Vivaldi's Seasons
Violinist Itzhak Perlman performs 'Winter' from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta in 1983. Read Itzhak Perlman’s blog on practising. Read a special interview with the great virtuoso in celebration of his 70th birthday in The Strad’s August 2015 issue, out ...
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ArticleNathan Milstein performs his own Paganiniana
Legendary violinist Nathan Milstein performs his own Paganiniana - a fiendishly difficult set of variations based on Paganini's Caprice no.24. Read The Strad's article: Celebrating the great violinist Nathan Milstein Read: Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein – two titanic violinists who still divide opinion today Subscribe to ...
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ArticleCellist David Finckel on effective articulation
We need articulation to excite the strings and give our playing clarity' Cellist David Finckel talks about 'bow clicks', enabling each bow stroke to start with a 'pop'. Read The Strad's 6 ways to improve your staccato. Read David Finckel's 10 habits of successful musicians. Subscribe to ...
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ArticleRachel Barton Pine and Mike Block perform Metallica's One on violin and cello
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine and cellist Mike Block perform 'One' by Metallica (in an arrangement by Rachel Barton Pine) at the Ravinia Festival on August 24, 2014.Read Barton Pine's tribute to her violin heroine Maud Powell.Barton Pine talks about her special relationship with Mozart's Violin Concerto no.3 in ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs Kreisler at the White House
This is a bit like déjÁ vu for me. I remember being a pudgy 13-year-old at fundraiser events, playing at about 11.30 at night, and everybody was tired and wanted to leave - including myself!' Violinist Itzhak Perlman performs Kreisler's Tempo di Minuetto in the Style ...
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ArticleViolinist Peter Cropper gives a string quartet masterclass on Brahms
They perceive the music of Brahms very well, but in my view they don't pass on the emotions that I think Brahms felt at the time...'Lindsay String Quartet founding violinist Peter Cropper, who died at the age of 69 in May 2015, gave a masterclass on Brahms at ...
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ArticleDavid Fulmer performs on Mozart's violin
It's incredible to think that Mozart used this not only as a violinist, but as a composer. On this very instrument he wrote and played his five violin concertos and the monumental masterpiece that is Sinfonia Concertante'Mozart's 300-year-old violin came the US in June 2013 for the first ...
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ArticleAurora Orchestra performs Mozart's Symphony no.40 from memory
The UK orchestra best known for performing large orchestral works from memory perform Mozart's Symphony no.40 at the Royal Albert Hall for the 2015 BBC Proms
