Videos – Page 2
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Michael Rieber plays Franck Sonata on double bass
The double bassist performs the work which features on his album Nuit Blanches
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason in the spotlight at the Lucerne Festival
British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason discusses his return to the Lucerne Festival as this summer’s featured artist in an interview with Intendant Michael Haefliger.
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A Tango performance from the Apollo Chamber Players
The quartet is joined by bandoneon player Héctor del Curto in Gallo Ciego (Blind Rooster)
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Documentary: 100 years of Ravel’s Tzigane
After discovering that the piece was premiered at the Fontainebleau Castle in 1924, the Fontainebleau School has created a film exploring the famous work
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Violinist Rachel Lee Priday performs Paul Wiancko’s ‘Waterworks’
The new work will feature on Priday’s upcoming album, Fluid Dynamics, inspired by oceanography
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Video: Peter Sheppard Skærved celebrates the Newark School of Violin Making in new film
The latest installment in the UK violinist’s ‘Knowledge Exchange Violin’ project highlights the UK violin making school
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The Danish Quartet performs ‘Once a shoemaker’ (featuring a clog fiddle!)
The original composition by violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen will feature on the quartet’s upcoming album Keel Road
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Documentary: World War II violin restored for nonprofit's music project
Once played in a German prisoner-of-war camp, the instrument has been brought back to working condition by the Belgium-based Music Fund
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The complete recording of Spicy Odyssey for double bass and piano
Double bassist Théotime Voisin and pianist Maurice van Schoonhoven present Jean Marc Fouché’s Spicy Odyssey, a work that showcases virtuosity, lyricism and a variety of musical genres
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The Piper of Windy Ha’ - James Ross and the Maxwell Quartet
The folk-infused composition features on a new album of works inspired by Scottish landscapes and heritage
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The Lark Ascending for violin, orchestra… and choir!
Violinist Jack Liebeck and VOCES8 Foundation Choir & Orchestra perform a new adaptation which includes text from George Meredith’s poetry
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New video: violinist Miranda Cuckson performs Scott Wollschleger’s ‘Secret Machine no.7’
The solo work features on Wollschleger’s upcoming portrait album of compositions
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Violinist Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque perform John Jenkins’s Fantasia Suite
The ensemble aims to shine a light on English instrumental works of the 17th and early 18th centuries
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Violinist Luka Faulisi plays ‘El Cant des Ocells’
Rising Italian-Serbian-French violinist Faulisi performs the traditional Catalan song, popularised by cellist Pablo Casals
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New video: Novo Quartet performs Weinberg
The award-winning ensemble presents a video performance of Weinberg’s Aria op.9, released on 10 May
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Miró Quartet performs ‘Over the rainbow’
The quartet performs an ode to its hometown of Austin in a track featured on its new album Home, out 10 May
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Did AI just kill classical music? A video from violinist Daniel Kurganov
‘A violinist with no shadow’ - a video of some fine violin playing… or are things not quite as they seem?
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A jaunty performance from early music specialists Ensemble Diderot
The award-winning ensemble presents a track from its upcoming album Berlin Harpsichord Concertos, out on 17 May
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A documentary on Icelandic luthier Hans Jóhannsson
The short film features the luthier sharing his thoughts on over 40 years of violin making
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Solo Bach in Alaska from cellist Yo-Yo Ma
Ma plays the solemn D minor Prelude amid melting permafrost on Lower Tanana Dene lands in Fairbanks, Alaska