Videos – Page 99
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ArticleDavid Oistrakh performs Brahms's Third Violin Sonata
Violinist David Oistrakh and pianist Sviatoslav Richter perform Brahms's Third Violin Sonata. Watch Oistrakh perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Read about David Oistrakh and Joseph Szigeti’s ‘s influence on Prokofiev’s violin concertos and sonatas in The Strad’s March 2015 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleViolinist performs while suspended upside down from bridge
Félix Analís performs his violin while suspended upside down from a bridge in Xalapa, Mexico.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleDavid Oistrakh performs Shostakovich's Violin Concerto no.1 cadenza
David Oistrakh performs the cadenza to Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto. Watch David Oistrakh perform Bach’s Double Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin. Read about David Oistrakh and Joseph Szigeti’s ‘s influence on Prokofiev’s violin concertos and sonatas in The Strad’s March 2015 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad ...
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ArticleMaxim Vengerov on playing the violin like Mozart
Violinist Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto at the Royal Academy of Music, London - including a humorous impression of Mozart's violin playing.The full 48-minute video is available to buy as a download or DVD through the Masterclass Media Foundation.Watch Vengerov give a showstopping ...
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ArticleDigital representation of Bach's First Cello Suite
One of a series of experiments by Magnatune, this animated video represents the cellist's bowing and its relationship to the musical line in the Prelude of Bach's First Cello Suite.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single ...
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ArticleViolinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Paganini's God Save the King
Violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Paganini's fiendishly difficult Variations on 'God Save the King'. Zimmermann was recently forced to part ways with the 1711 ‘Lady Inchiquin’ Stradivarius – his principal performing violin for the past 13 years. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman on building a career in music
The most important concert date you will ever have is your second. Securing one concert is fine, but being asked back is the key!' Violinist Itzhak Perlman talks about being diagnosed with Polio, winning competitions and building and sustaining a career. Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleViolin string vibrations captured on video
Watch string vibrations captured with a CMOS sensor, 24 frames per second video and 1/4000 shutter speed. According to the film's author, it has not been edited. The effect can be explained by 'the refresh rate of the camera catching the vibration at different parts of the arch'.Subscribe ...
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ArticleDavid and Igor Oistrakh perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante
David Oistrakh and his son Igor Oistrakh perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante viola and violin parts respectively with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Yehudi Menuhin.Watch David Oistrakh perform Bach's Double Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin.Read about David Oistrakh and Joseph Szigeti's 's influence on Prokofiev's violin concertos and sonatas in ...
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Article2Cellos perform Hysteria by Muse
2Cellos † Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser † perform their arrangement of Hysteria by rock band Muse, filmed in a mental hospital in Pula, Croatia. Watch the duo perform their arrangement of AC/DC's Thunderstruck with fellow cellists Mischa Maisky and Giovanni Sollima at Cello Biennale Amsterdam 2014. ...
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ArticleNikolaj Znaider performs Sibelius's Violin Concerto
The Strad's March 2015 cover star, Nikolaj Znaider, performs Sibelius's Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Juraj Valcuha in October 2011. The violinist talks about the importance of practising Bach and basics in his blog for The Strad. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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ArticleDavid Oistrakh performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Legendary violinist David Oistrakh gives a full-bodied performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Gennadi Roshdestwenski in 1963. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov on blending your sound with other instruments
You have to forget sometimes that you play the violin. Use it to express the sound of the music and to integrate with the orchestra'Violinist Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Britten’s Violin Concerto at the Royal Academy of Music, London. The full 50-minute video is available to ...
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ArticleRo-Bow † a self-playing 'kinetic sculpture' violin
Following our look at the Mills Violano Virtuoso† a self-playing violin invented in the early 1900s † engineer Seth Goldstein has invented the Ro-Bow, which moves bow, violin and mechanical fingers via electromagnetic technology. Read about the Campanula† featuring four playing and twelve sympathetic ...
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ArticleJoshua Bell performs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell, who talks to The Strad about the art of conducting, performs and directs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for the Pharos Arts Foundation in Nicosia, Cyprus.The Strad's March 2015 issue, out now, investigates the increasing number of string players ...
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ArticleNikolaj Znaider performs Bach's Partita no.2 Sarabande
The Strad's March 2015 cover star, Nikolaj Znaider, performs the Sarabande from Bach's Solo Violin Partita no.2.The violinist talks about the importance of practising Bach and basics in his blog for The Strad.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. ...
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ArticlePatricia Kopatchinskaja performs Manuel de Falla and Heinz Holliger
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs Manuel de Falla's 'Jota' from Suite Populaire Espagnole and Heinz Holliger's Das Kleine Irgendwas, which features spoken dialogue and an array of vocalisations, in November 2014.Kopatchinskaja contributes a Practice Diary to The Strad's January issue.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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ArticleViolist Yuri Bashmet on rubato
Rubato can only be effective if you work within the structure of a clear beat' Violist Yuri Bashmet describes how best to use rubato as part of a masterclass on Shostakovich's Sonata for Viola and Piano, recorded at the Verbier Festival Academy. The full 123-minute video is ...
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ArticleMaxim Vengerov on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
One note of wider vibrato can ruin the purity of the whole line...'Violinist Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Playing the solo part is Aya Sanada. The full 48-minute video is available to buy as a download or ...
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ArticleSalomon Quartet performs Haydn
The Salomon Quartet — violinists Simon Standage and Catherine Martin, violist Adam Romer and cellist Andrew Skidmore — gives a period performance of Haydn's String Quartet op.71 no.2.Royal Academy of Music professor of Baroque violin Simon Standage contributes a Technique article on bow control and son filé to ...
