Videos – Page 8
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VideoEdicson Ruiz plays Berio’s Psy for solo double bass
Berlin Philharmonic bassist Edicson Ruiz performing Luciano Berio’s only piece for solo double bass, Psy
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Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O’Connor: 1B
‘1B’ by Edgar Meyer was the first track on the super trio’s second album, Appalachian Journey recorded in 1999
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Music funding: ‘There will not be another Sheku Kanneh Mason’
The lack of state school funding for creative arts is creating a ‘two-tier culture’, the mother of cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason has said.
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Composer cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir on the halldorophone
Guðnadóttir has created a number of prominent film scores in recent years, including HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries and the new Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix
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Anastasia Kobekina performs Debussy’s Beau Soir
From the Young Classicals YouTube channel comes this video of the Russian cellist performing this early Debussy masterpiece
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Alisa Weilerstein on Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
The cellist plays the concerto in rehearsal with the Geneva Camerata and explains what this piece, in her words ‘arguably the greatest cello concerto that exists’, means to her.
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David Oistrakh performs Debussy's The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
On the great violinist's birthday today, we share this video of him performing a transcription of Debussy's La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) with pianist Frida Bauer in 1972, displaying his lauded warmth of tone. Read The Strad's guide to David ...
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Trondheim Chamber Music Competition
In the semi-final of the Trondheim Chamber Music Competition, which concludes tonight, the Paris-based Trio Hélios played Brahms’s Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101 No. 3.
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Leonidas Kavakos plays Beethoven at Tanglewood
Leonidas Kavakos joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as conductor and violinist this past August, for a programme including Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7. This video features an excerpt from his Beethoven performance.
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Heifetz, Gershwin: It Ain't Necessarily So
Jascha Heifetz plays his own arrangement of Gershwin’s ’It Ain’t Necessarily So’ from Porgy and Bess
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Eugene Fodor performance and interview on Johnny Carson
First aired on 8 February 1990, this was Eugene Fodor’s comeback after a turbulent period in his life, including being arrested for cocaine and heroin possession and going to rehab. A few months earlier, the New York Times had basically announced the end of his career in a ...
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Zemtsov family viola quartet
Dana Zemtsov, parents Mikhail and Julia, and cousin Daniil, all violists, perform Max von Weinzierl’s Nachtstück
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2Cellos star Luka Sulic leads his arrangement of Vivaldi’s Spring
Filmed live in Trieste, this video features cellist Luka Šulić performing the first movement of Spring from his own arrangement of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Šulić is well known as half of the record breaking 2Cellos along with fellow Croat Stjepan Hauser. The two announced a break from the group ...
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Great teachers on film: Ivan Galamian
The great pedagogue takes a young Joshua Bell through his paces
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Play With Ray: The Winner Takes the Stage
Three young finalists from around the world took to the Hollywood Bowl stage with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Ray Chen on August 8, 2019, as part of the LA Philharmonic’s Play With Ray competition. After a day at Universal Studios, masterclasses with Ray, and an up-close encounter with ...
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Nicola Benedetti gives masterclass on Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
Nicola Benedetti works with Juillliard School graduate Gregory Cardi on the first movement of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64.
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BBC Radio 4: The Instrument Makers
In this radio programme, cellist and presenter Verity Sharp hears the stories of four very different instrument makers
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Anne-Sophie Mutter: A Life with Beethoven
In this documentary, originally released in 2000, Anne-Sophie Mutter gives us an insight into her view of Beethoven and shares experiences of playing his music, starting with her teenage years, when she performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Herbert Von Karajan. The documentary includes video clips and photos of Mutter ...
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Joshua Bell on childhood dreams, party tricks and dance moves
A quickfire interview with American violinist Joshua Bell at the 2019 Verbier Festival, from Medici.TV’s ‘Swiss Cheese Stories’ series. See more at Medici.TV’s Verbier minisite
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Behind-the-Scenes with Anne-Sophie Mutter & John Williams
The violinist and composer introduce their collaborative album Across the Stars, released on 30 August . Familiar themes from Star Wars, Harry Potter and more were recast as virtuosic violin showpieces for the album, featuring the Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles conducted by John Williams himself.
