Videos – Page 40
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VideoEsther 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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VideoPekka 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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VideoMaxim 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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VideoViolinist 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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VideoSolem 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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VideoCinema 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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VideoLuthier Peter Westerlund shares ‘unique methods’
The video is part of a series by the Swedish violin maker
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VideoPekka 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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VideoThe 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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Video‘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 alone ...
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VideoEsther 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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VideoJuilliard 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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VideoViolinist 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.
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VideoMetropolitan Orchestra violists perform tribute to colleague Vincent Lionti
The orchestra’s viola section came together for a performance Handel’s ‘Ombra mai fu’ dedicated to the memory of their colleague Vincent Lionti, who died due to complications related to Covid-19
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Video14 top violin soloists perform Bach’s Chaconne from home
Stars including Julia Fischer, Augustin Hadelich, Renaud Capuçon and Lisa Batiashvili each perform sections of the work, edited together to create a continuous performance
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VideoViolinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian and cellist Kian Soltani perform Kodály on Stradivari instruments
The two Beare’s International Violin Society Artists recently recorded the work at the Vienna Konzerthaus for their Moments Musicaux series
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VideoBow exercises with Pekka Kuusisto
In the first of a new series of violin exercise videos from Pekka Kuusisto - each focusing on a different aspect of technique - the Finnish violinist shares his favourite bow exercises.Kuusisto says: ‘I’ve learned these exercises from my long-time teacher, professor and gentleman Tuomas Haapanen at the Sibelius Academy. ...
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VideoSitkovetsky Trio plays Beethoven’s Trio in E flat major
To tie in with the Sitkovetsky Trio’s newly released Beethoven recording on BIS, here is a video clip of them performing the first movement of the Trio in E-flat major, Op.70 No.2.
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VideoFrom my room orchestra: Pachelbel Canon
Students and staff from Trinity Laban’s Strings department have come together from their rooms around the world to create this rendition of Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major. Led by Professor Nic Pendlebury.
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VideoArensky Serenade: the COVID-19 Version
In this video Taiwanese-American violinist Paul Huang and pianist Helen Huang play the COVID-19 version of Arensky’s Serenade.
