Videos – Page 42
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Video12 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 and ...
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VideoDaniel 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 wants ...
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VideoAspen 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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VideoCellist 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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VideoAspen 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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VideoViolinist 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 The Strad’s ...
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VideoAspen 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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VideoJack Liebeck on recording Brahms and Schoenberg
The violinist explains his personal story behind his new album.
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VideoAlisa 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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VideoLawrence 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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VideoYehudi 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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VideoAspen 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’
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VideoSheku Kanneh-Mason and the Heath Quartet play Spring Song by Frank Bridge
Watch this new video of Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the Heath Quartet recording Spring Song by Frank Bridge. The piece is the second of Bridge’s 4 Short Pieces H.102 for violin and piano (1912), here scored in a new arrangement by Simon Parkin. The recording features on Kanneh-Mason’s new album, Elgar, ...
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VideoAspen Music Festival & School presents ‘Moments Of Musical Revelation’: Stefan Jackiw
Violinist Stefan Jackiw recalls an unusual assignment he received from legendary Aspen teacher Dorothy DeLay
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Video1987 documentary on Stradivari featuring Pinchas Zukerman
Pinchas Zukerman presents this 1987 documentary about Stradivari, also featuring Yo-Yo Ma Anne-Sophie Mutter and Charles Beare.
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VideoAugustin Hadelich plays Ysaÿe
Augustin Hadelich plays Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata for solo violin No. 4 in E minor, dedicated to Fritz Kreisler. This performance was filmed live in concert in Grünwald, Germany, on December 11 2018.
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VideoWe Are NY Phil: Associate Principal Viola Rebecca Young
We Are NY Phil, a video series featuring musicians of the Orchestra, brings you closer to Philharmonic musicians by focusing on their lives outside the concert hall and following the activities they are most passionate about. The second video of the series explores how humour plays a key role in ...
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VideoNew string quartet charts Apollo 11 mission to the moon
Composer Alistair Coleman’s piece, Moonshot, marks 50th anniversary of the lunar landing
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VideoBenedetti Foundation Orchestra play ‘Intermezzo’ from Cavalleria Rusticana
Nicola Benedetti leads the Benedetti Foundation Orchestra
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VideoSilkroad Ensemble performs Kinan Azmeh’s ‘Wedding’ at Tanglewood
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma came up with the idea of Silkroad, formerly named the Silk Road Project, in 1998, inspired by the historical Silk Road trading route that linked China with the West. The Silkroad Ensemble launched in 2000, comprising musicians from countries along this route. ‘We started as a group ...
