Videos – Page 108
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ArticleRenaud Capuçon performs Beethoven's Second Violin Romance
Renaud Capuçon performs Beethoven's Romance for Violin and Orchestra no.2 with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Masur.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase back issues click here.
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ArticleThe Novus Quartet performs Tchaikovsky's First String Quartet
The Novus Quartet from South Korea, which has triumphed in the string section of the Eleventh International Mozart Competition in Salzburg, performs the third movement Scherzo of Tchaikovsky's First String Quartet. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free ...
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ArticleAbbado's Orchestra Mozart performs Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto
Members of Orchestra Mozart, conducted by the late Claudio Abbado, perform Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no.3. Orchestra Mozart will be revived to perform at the Ravenna Festival in June 2014 under the baton of Riccardo Muti, following a temporary shutdown. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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ArticleThe Schumann Quartet performs Beethoven's Third String Quartet
The Schumann Quartet, which has recently been awarded the €60,000 Jürgen Ponto Foundation chamber prize, performs the first movement Allegro from Beethoven's String Quartet no.3 The members of the quartet are brothers Erik, Ken (violin) and Mark Schumann (cello), along with violist Liisa Randalu. Subscribe to ...
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ArticleDouble bassist François Rabbath performs Reitba
Double bassist François Rabbath, who features in The Strad's February 2014 double bass special, performs his own Reitba, a portrait of the African desert. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase back issues click here.
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ArticleDouble bassist Joel Quarrington performs Korngold's Garden Scene
London Symphony Orchestra principal double bassist Joel Quarrington and pianist Jean Desmarais perform a transcription of Garden Scene from Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing op.11. The performance was recorded live in concert in Montreal at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur on 24 March 2012. Joel Quarrington features ...
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ArticleDouble bassist Rick Stotijn performs Piazzolla's Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas
Double bassist Rick Stotijn, violinist Cecilia Bernardini and pianist Jeroen Bal perform Otoño Porteño from Piazzolla's Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas, arranged for trio by Marijn van Prooijen. The video was recorded in Bimhuis Amsterdam for VPRO Vrije Geluiden. Stotijn features in The Strad's February 2014 issue, which ...
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ArticleEmerson String Quartet performs Shostakovich's Quartet no.3
The Emerson String Quartet performs the third movement of Shostakovich's String Quartet no.3 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. Cellist David Finckel, who stepped down from his post last year, has written a guide on building and maintaining a successful career. ...
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ArticleMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond plays the 'Lipinski' Stradivarius
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond discusses and plays selections from Giuseppe Tartini's 'Devil's Trill' Sonata on Tartini's own violin — later to be known as the 1715 'Lipinski' Stradivarius, after Polish violinist Karol Lipinski. The violin was stolen from Almond in an armed robbery this ...
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ArticleRachel Barton Pine performs Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Deep River arr. Maud Powell
American violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Deep River arranged by her compatriot, violinist Maud Powell (1867-1920), with pianist Matthew Hagle on Chicago Tonight. Pine paid tribute to Powell at the 56th Grammy Awards ceremony on 25 January 2014 as the Recording Academy honoured the great ...
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ArticleThe Ysaÿe Quartet performs Ravel's String Quartet
The Ysaÿe Quartet, which brings its 30-year career to an end this week, performs the first movement (Allegro Moderato. Très doux) from Ravel's String Quartet in November 2012. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase ...
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ArticleSergey Khachatryan performs Ysaÿe's Les furies
Violinist Sergey Khachatryan, who this week was awarded the £50,000 Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, performs Les furies, the final movement from Ysaÿe's Violin Sonata no. 2. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase back issues ...
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ArticleClassic Ivry Gitlis
In honour of The Strad's new gallery, 'The hands of violinist Ivry Gitlis' — the first in a series focusing on the hands of famous string players — here are the violinist's hands in action, performing Saint-Saëns's Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleAugustin Hadelich performs Paganini's Caprice no. 24
Violinist Augustin Hadelich, who has blogged for The Strad on performing Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the LA Philharmonic with only a few days' notice, performs Paganini's Caprice no. 24 on 10 December 2010 in Saarbrücken, Germany. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
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ArticleAaron Rosand performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy
American violinist Aaron Rosand performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy op. 25 with the CBC Concert Orchestra in 1969. Rosand is writing a series of technical blogs for The Strad - you can read his advice on vibrato and producing a beautiful tone. Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleYehudi Menuhin performs Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin performs Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs) op. 20, accompanied by pianist Adolph Baller. The Menuhin Competition will be returning to London in 2016 to mark its founder's 100th anniversary.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. ...
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ArticleMinnesota Orchestra perform Mahler's Fifth Symphony Scherzo
The Minnesota Orchestra, who have recently signed a new three-year contract following a 15-month musician lockout, perform under their former music director Osmo Vänskä at the 2012 BBC Proms. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase ...
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ArticleJascha Heifetz performs Bach's Chaconne
A 1970 recording shows the 69-year-old violinist on fine form. Read The Strad’s 7 ways to play perfect chords and see how other great violinists tackled the same work: James Ehnes Arthur Grumiaux Ida Haendel Gidon Kremer Midori Nathan Milstein Viktoria Mullova Gil Shaham Isaac Stern Maxim Vengerov Frank Peter ...
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Nathan Milstein
A mighty performance of the ultimate violin work by the Russian violinist
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ArticleThe Silk Road Ensemble performs Arabian Waltz
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded the Silk Road Project in 1998 to develop cultural and educational projects through interaction between different performers and cultures from around the world. Here the ensemble performs Rabih Abou-Khalil's Arabian Waltz. The Silk Road Project features in our Alternative Ensembles feature published in the January ...
