Videos – Page 76
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ArticleJoshua Bell performs Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto no. 3
Violinist Joshua Bell performs Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto no. 3 with the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra conducted by Joshua Weilerstein. The performance was recorded at the Verbier Festival in the Salle des Combins, Switzerland on 6 August 2016. The entire performance is available to watch via medici.tv. Read: ...
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ArticleViolinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs her own solo arrangement of Ozzy Osbourne's 'Crazy Train', the first single from the Black Sabbath frontman's debut solo album, released in 1980. Read: 10 pieces of advice for performers by violinist Rachel Barton Pine Watch: violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs her ...
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ArticleAlisa Weilerstein rehearses Dvorák's Cello Concerto
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein rehearses the first movement of Dvorák's Cello Concerto with Orchestre de Paris conducted by Emmanuel Krivine for a performance which took place on 13 May 2015 at the Paris Philharmonie. Watch: Cellist Alisa Weilerstein on memorising music Watch: Alisa Weilerstein performs Kodály’s Solo Cello ...
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ArticleViolinist Vadim Repin performs Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium
Violinist Vadim Repin performs Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium concerto for violin and orchestra (1980) with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra 'Evgeny Svetlanov' under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski. The performance took place at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow on 30 May 2016. Read: 6 pieces of advice ...
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ArticleHilary Hahn performs Gigue from Bach Solo Violin Partita no.3
Violinist Hilary Hahn performs the Gigue from Bach's Solo Partita no. 3 as an encore. The violinist often finishes concerts with the work, as she did following a performance of Bruch’s First Violin Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in December 2016. Read: violinist Hilary Hahn on ...
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ArticleLisa Batiashvili rehearses Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili rehearses the fourth movement of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto with Orchestre de Paris conducted by Paavo Järvi for performances on the 20 and 21 January 2016. Read: 5 pieces of advice for playing Bach by violinist Lisa Batiashvili Watch: Lisa Batiashvili performs Sibelius Violin ...
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ArticleRenaud Capuçon rehearses Beethoven's Violin Concerto 2017
Violinist Renaud Capuçon rehearses Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Orchestre de Paris conducted by Daniel Harding for performances which took place on 25 and 26 January 2017 at the Paris Philharmonie. Watch: Renaud Capuçon plays the Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ ‘Panette’ violin, 1737 Watch: Capuçon brothers – violinist Renaud ...
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ArticleViolinist Nicola Benedetti on the physicality of playing
Understanding how much natural weight there is in the body, and how much you can and should use to play an instrument as delicate as the violin is so important' Violinist Nicola Benedetti speaks about the physicality of playing ahead of the Nicola Benedetti Strings Festival in ...
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ArticleOwen Lee plays 420-year-old Gasparo Da Salò double bass
Cincinnati Symphony principal bass Owen Lee demonstrates one of the world's oldest double basses, crafted by Gasparo Da Salò in Brescia, Italy c. 1590.Filmed at the Cincinnati Bass Cellar on July 10, 2016, the video features the opening of Koussevitzky's Concerto, the Prelude from Bach's First cello Suite, ...
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ArticleViolinist Joshua Bell launches Virtual Reality Experience
'You know how it is seeing yourself in the mirror - well this is worse!' - Joshua Bell US violinist Joshua Bell teamed with Sony Interactive Entertainment to launch the Joshua Bell VR Experience this week. The artist recorded Brahms's Hungarian Dance no.1 with pianist Sam Haywood ...
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Article15-year-old violinist Daniel Lozakovich performs Kreisler's Recitativo and Scherzo
In the video above 15-year-old Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich performs Kreisler's Recitativo and Scherzo as an encore following a performance with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra just last week.The young musician signed a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon in June 2016, making him the label's youngest artist, and ...
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ArticleThe Strad Masterclass: Leon Bosch on Dragonetti's 'Famous Solo' for double bass
To say that repeated material always has to be played differently to make it interesting is a flawed interpretation of how we work as human beings' - double bassist Leon Bosch speaks about performing 'The Famous Solo' by Dragonetti to The Strad. The second movement of the piece is performed ...
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ArticleWinning violinist Yurina Arai performs at Heifetz Competition 2017
In the video above Yurina Arai performs at the 2017 Jascha Heifetz International Violin Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania - which she won.The 22-year-old Japanese violinist's programme includes: Zita BružaitÄ—'s Canzona for Solo Violin; Paganini's Solo Caprice op.1 no.22; the Andante and Allegro from Bach's Solo Sonata no.2; Manuel ...
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ArticleAmerican Composers Orchestra performs Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho Suite
The American Composers Orchestra - 'dedicated to the creation, performance, preservation and promulgation of music by American composers' - performs Bernard Herrmann's Psycho Suite conducted by George Manahan.The performance was recorded at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall in New York on October 28 2016.Watch: Pittsburgh Symphony strings perform Bernard ...
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ArticleViolinist Annelle Gregory gives winning performance at Sphinx Competition 2017
Annelle K. Gregory performs the first movement of Sibelius's Violin Concerto in the final of the 2017 Sphinx Competition - which she won, taking home the top prize of $50,000. The performance, which took place at Orchestra Hall, Detroit on 12 February 2017, features the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra ...
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ArticleNemanja Radulović rehearses Barber Violin Concerto with Kirill Karabits
Violinist Nemanja Radulović takes part in an informal rehearsal of Barber's Violin Concerto with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) chief conductor Kirill Karabits accompanying on piano. Radulović, who is currently serving as BSO artist in residence, is to perform the work with the orchestra tonight (15 February) at ...
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ArticleMischa Maisky performs Saint-Saëns's The Swan
Cellist Mischa Maisky performs 'The Swan' from Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy.The performance was recorded at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland on 27 July 2015. The entire concert, including Maisky's performance of Shostakovich's Cello Concerto can be viewed ...
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ArticleCellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
BBC Young Musician 2016 winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah in an arrangement by composer-pianist Tom Hodge at London's Abbey Road Studios in the video above.The 17-year-old cellist performed the work at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) televised ceremony at London's Royal Albert Hall yesterday evening ...
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ArticleHow to play the modulin - a DIY synthesizer played like a violin
Martin Molin from Swedish folktronica band Wintergatan demonstrates his modulin - a home-made modular synthesizer, played like a violin.He performs arrangements of Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra, and John Williams's Jurassic Park theme.Watch: Montreal Symphony Orchestra acquires a rare octobassWatch: Vivaldi performed on the world’s smallest playable violin
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ArticleBach duet on 1734 Stradivarius and Guarneri del Gesù violins
Chicago Symphony Orchestra assistant concertmaster David Taylor and his former student Clarissa Bevilacqua perform on two violins made in 1734 - the Antonio Stradivari 'Lam, ex Scotland' and the Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù 'Prince Doria' - housed at the Museo del Violino in Cremona, Italy. The performance ...
