Videos – Page 8
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VideoChristian Li performs Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the Menuhin Competition
Violinist Christian Li performs Self in Mind by Jaehyuck Choi and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: Summer at the 2018 Menuhin Competition Junior Final
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Toilet roll is put to a new musical use
Alexandra Fletcher, a student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, plays Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D major.
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Goldmund Quartet perform Fazıl Say’s ‘Divorce’ String Quartet
The Munich ensemble perform Fazil Say’s String Quartet op.29, ‘Divorce’, third movement: Presto
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Pablo Casals performs The Song of the Birds
Pablo Casals performs The Song of the Birds (‘El cant dels ocells’), a traditional Catalan carol
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Hauser performs his arrangement of Barber’s Adagio for Strings
The Croatian cellist presents the latest music video from his debut album, Classic
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Classical Up Close: Steven Isserlis
On February 28, 2020 British cellist Steven Isserlis came to The Greene Space in New York for an up close evening of music and conversation. He was joined by pianist Shai Wosner in a program of works by Beethoven, Janacek, and Prokofiev.
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Eleanor Corr performs her ROSL section winning recital
Violinist Eleanor Corr Photo Jane Salmon Watch British violinist Eleanor Corr perform her winning recital with pianist Aleksandra Myslek at the 68th Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition 2020. Corr won the strings section prize with a recital that comprised Lutosławski’s Partita, V: Presto; the ...
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Aspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Gil Shaham
Violinist Gil Shaham recalls how his first encounter with Barber’s Violin Concerto led him to a treasure trove of violin concertos from the 1930s
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12 ensemble performs ‘Honey Siren - II. (Full like drips)’ by Oliver Leith
Filmed in the loading bay at the Barbican Centre in London, the British conductorless string group 12 ensemble here performs ‘Honey Siren - II. (Full like drips)’ by Oliver Leith. The new commission by the London-based composer and Royal Opera House artist-in-residence appears on 12 ensemble’s second album, Death ...
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Daniel Hope on why he is exploring music of the Belle Époque
On ’Belle Époque’, his latest album, British violinist Daniel Hope explores music from the turn of the twentieth century. It was an era musically defined by the last melancholy flourishes of late romanticism and the emergence of the avant-garde. What fascinates Daniel Hope about the Belle Epoque? The violinist ...
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Aspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Sylvia Rosenberg
Violinist and teacher Sylvia Rosenberg shares a moment of musical revelation that came when she was teaching Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto at Aspen
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Cellist plays with synthetic bow hair
In this video cellist Sarah Markle performs ‘ Original Rags’ (1899) by Scott Joplin, using Coruss synthetic bow hair. According to the manufacturer, Coruss synthetic bow hair matches natural horsehair in blind tests for tone and articulation. The pianist Evan Currie.
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Aspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Lynn Harrell
Cellist Lynn Harrell recalls a life-changing experience from his youth, when he watched his father sing Schubert’s Winterreise on stage at Aspen to a rapt audience
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Violinist Tasmin Little performs Saint-Saëns at the Proms 1995
Violinist Tasmin Little, who has recently announced her retirement from the stage at the age of 54, performs Saint-Saëns’s Introduction et rondo capriccioso at the BBC Proms in 1995. Little is also interviewed as part of a feature on whether string players should retire from performance in ...
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Aspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Simone Porter
Violinist Simone Porter on how sightreading parties at Aspen opened her eyes to the connective power of music making
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Jack Liebeck on recording Brahms and Schoenberg
The violinist explains his personal story behind his new album.
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Alisa Weilerstein deconstructs the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite no.1 in G major
The American soloist offers her insight into how Bach created music of such timelessness
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Lawrence Power plays a Brexit Polka
A timely little polka from British violist Lawrence Power. Listen carefully to hear all 28 (current) European national anthems.
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Yehudi Menuhin School student on a violin once played in Auschwitz
In this video, 18-year-old Kingsley Lin, who is currently studying at the Yehudi Menuhin School, performs on a violin once played by Rosa Levinsky in the Auschwitz Women’s Orchestra. Levinsky spent the last five months of the war in Bergen-Belsen, and on being released in 1945, was transferred to a ...
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Aspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Sarah Chang
Violinist Sarah Chang shares a moment from her childhood when she first learnt what it means to be part of an orchestra ‘from the inside’
