Videos – Page 14
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VideoHilary Hahn does the Ling Ling Workout
First she played Paganini while hoola-hooping. Now Hilary Hahn has accepted an even meaner TwoSet Violin challenge, which, amongst other things, involves playing Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with the A string tuned down a semitone.
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Ray Chen: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
The violinist performs a seasonal favourite. Produced by Daniel Jang
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Evan Price plays Django Reinhardt
Improvisation no.2 by jazz guitar legend Django Reinhardt is here arranged for solo violin and performed by Evan Price. ‘The bow technique is of uncertain origin but was made famous by hot jazz violin great, Joe Venuti,’ writes Price. This performance appears on Price’s 2017 album ‘Dialogues’ . ...
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Double bass and octobass duet
Double bass player Jonathan Camps is joined by Nicola Moneta on octobass for a performance of ‘Amazing Grace’ filmed at the Mardi Graves festival in February 2018.
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A meeting of two very different bassists
The American jazz and funk bassist Steve Bailey plays together with double bassist François Rabbath and his pianist son Sylvain Rabbath at Bavarian Bassdays 2018 in Mühldorf/Inn.
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Yo-Yo Ma performs in Montréal metro
The Chinese-American cellist gives a free concert in the Montréal metro, including a Leonard Cohen singalong.
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Azure Quartet: Spiral Sequences by Jack Frerer
‘Spiral Sequences is a string quartet performed in two movements,’ writes composer Jack Frerer. ‘The first, the shorter of the two, is frantic and pulse-driven, carried by momentum generated by spiraling 16th note patterns and repeated ostinatos. It presents fragments of a sequence-like pattern, one which is played in ...
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Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason: variations on In the Bleak Midwinter
Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason perform an arrangement of Holst’s Christmas carol ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’. Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter - Arr. Kanneh-Mason © 2018 Decca Music Group Limited
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The moment Rostropovich's cello is sold for £1.6 million
Filmed during Sotheby’s recent sale of items belonging to Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, this video captures the moment that the cellist’s1783 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini reaches a hammer price of £1.6 million. It was sold for a final total of £1,930,000 (including the buyer’s premium). Read: Two cello records ...
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Hilary Hahn and TwoSet Violin play Paganini while hoola-hooping
In this video, TwoSet Violin and guest Hilary Hahn make Paganini’s Caprice No 24 that bit more challenging.
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Clara-Jumi Kang, Alessio Bax: Debussy Violin Sonata
German-Korean violinist Clara-Jumi Kang performs at the Seoul Arts Center with pianist Alessio Bax. Kang is a past winner of first prizes at the Seoul International Music Competition, Sendai International Violin Competition and International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.
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The 'Four Circles' approach to violin making
In the January 2019 issue of The Strad, luthier Kevin Kelly describes his geometrical method for violin design. This video is intended to provide a visual accompaniment to the article. ’In the past, there must have been a system of design that makers could easily understand and follow, with ...
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Itzhak Perlman performs at Pittsburgh synagogue memorial
This video is an extract from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Concert for Peace and Unity on 27 November, marking a month since the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue and honouring its victims. The concert will be broadcast in full by PBS on 11 December.
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Peace Through Music: violinist Hyeong-Joon Won
Violinist Hyeong-Joon Won gives a TEDx talk last year on his projects bringing musicians from North and South Korea together to perform and promote peace
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Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra plays items left on trains
Members of the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra perform a piece of music using items left behind on trains, including a surfboard, a bicycle pump and an umbrella.
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Diana Tishchenko performs Mendelssohn
Diana Tishchenko, winner of this year’s Long-Thibaud-Crespin competition, performs the first movement of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor in the contest’s final round.
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Ray Chen's practice challenge: Paganini Sauret Cadenza
The violinist lays bare his practice process, beginning from scratch on one of the steepest technical challenges in the repertoire – the Émile Sauret cadenza for Paganini’s First Violin Concerto.
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Layale Chaker and the Sarafand Ensemble
In this video from Morgenland Festival Osnabrück 2017, Layale Chaker and the Sarafand Ensemble with Michel Godard perform their version of the Lebanese folk solk Havvel ya gannam. Violinist and composer Layale Chaker trained at the National Higher Conservatory of Beirut in her native Lebanon, followed by studies at ...
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Die Seele der Geige: documentary featuring Frank Peter Zimmermann and luthier Martin Schleske
[n.b. no English subtitles. As broadcast on Arte.tv, the film is in German, or click the gear icon to change to French.] This documentary, a coproduction by EuroArts and BR (Bavarian Broadcasting), follows violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in 2016 as he reunites with the ‘Lady Inchiquin’ Stradivari, after a ...
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason meets Rostropovich's Cellos
Ahead of Sotheby’s sale Rostropovich Vishnevskaya (November 28th), Sheku Kanneh-Mason went to the auctioning house to try out three of the cellos belonging to his musical hero.
