Videos – Page 8
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Video12-year-old Christian Li plays Fisherman Harvest’s Song
In this video, the 12-year-old Australian-Chinese violinist Christian Li - the youngest ever winner of the Menuhin Competition - plays ‘Fisherman’s Harvest Song’, a traditional folk tune inspired by the fisherman’s harvest in the South China Sea and adapted by the contemporary Chinese composer Li Zili. Li says: ...
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Vienna Philharmonic musicians perform in empty Musikverein
Violinist Daniel Froschauer and bassist Michael Bladerer have dedicated their performance to the Vienna Philharmonic’s fans in Japan
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Suntory Hall president and cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi performs at home
The Japanese musician has dedicated his performance to those on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic
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NEC alumni present Elgar
In this video alumni from the New England Conservatory perform Elgar’s Pomp Circumstance March, Op. 39 No. 1 for the class of 2020 - all from their separate homes
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Ealing Symphony Orchestra: Lockdown Pomp & Circumstance
Ealing Symphony Orchestra To keep the spirit of the orchestra alive in lockdown, the Ealing Symphony Orchestra has continued to meet virtually each week, even attempting the occasional singalong despite the time lag challenges of video conferencing. In the process, the ESO decided to produce ...
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Working from home: Augustin Hadelich plays Ave Maria on violin and piano
The violinist plays J.S.Bach / Charles Gounod’s Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach on violin and piano
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Esther Yoo’s Violin Technique Tips: High Positions on the E-String
Filmed in South Korea, this video - the latest in the American violinist’s series of practice tutorials - walks us through Yoo’s tips on what to do with ‘pesky high E-string passages’.
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Pekka Kuusisto: bowing exercise for Kreutzer 2
The Finnish violinist leads us through a bow exercise for playing Kreutzer’s Etude No 2.
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Maxim Vengerov plays with his daughter Liza
In this video, supporting the Sochi International Film Festival Awards, Maxim Vengerov and his daughter Liza play Alessandro Marcello’s Adagio together on the violin and piano. Maxim Vengerov discusses his sentimental work in our May issue. To read it, click here .
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Violinist Pavel Šporcl gives drive-in concert
Audience members sat in their cars and could tune into the performance via car radio
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Solem Quartet performs Bill Withers’ Lovely Day from lockdown
The ensemble performs the arrangement by violinist Will Newell from their separate homes
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Cinema Paradiso with Roby Lakatos and Fiona Pears
The violinists Roby Lakatos and Fiona Pears with The MÁV Symphony Orchestra. Recorded on mobile phones; 12,000 miles apart during the Covid19 lockdown.
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Esther Yoo’s practice tips: chord pizzicato
Continuing her series of video tutorials in which she shares her practice tips, the American violinist covers chord pizzicato. She says: ‘This week, I wanted to share some thoughts on pizzicato – chord pizzicato, to be exact! The end of the third movement of Glazunov’s violin concerto has a few ...
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Luthier Peter Westerlund shares ‘unique methods’
The video is part of a series by the Swedish violin maker
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Pekka Kuusisto: Stretching Left
Continuing his series of video practice tips, Kuusisto shares what he calls a ‘pretty dreadful’ exercise for developing the left hand stretch.
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The Swan: Johannes Moser and ballerina Liudmila Konovalova
The cellist Johannes Moser and Vienna State Opera prima ballerina Liudmila Konovalova collaborate on their version of ‘The Swan’ from Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals.
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‘Going Home’: a requiem for our times
The cello and voice duo Branden James collaborates with Canadian cellist Amanda Forsyth, wife of violinist Pinchas Zukerman, to perform ‘Going Home’ - a piece based on Dvorák’s New World Symphony, Largo Movement. It is intended to serve as a requiem for all of those who are dying ...
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Esther Yoo’s Practice Tips: Ricochet (Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto)
Launching a mini-series of video tutorials, the American violinist shares her practice tips on perfecting the ricochet in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
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Juilliard students ‘do’ Bolero with guests including Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma
Musicians and dancers from the Juilliard school give us their take on Ravel’s Bolero, with cameo appearances from Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Emanuel Ax and David Robertson.
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Violinist Arve Tellefsen and Trio no Treble perform Fiocco - all from their separate homes
The Norwegian violinist Arve Tellefsen performs Allegro by Hector-Joseph Fiocco, together with Trio no Treble. Recorded separately during the coronavirus in 2020.
