Videos – Page 61
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VideoComparing Stradivari and Guarneri cellos with Pablo Ferrández
In this video, Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández plays two cellos side by side: the 1696 ‘Lord Aylesford’ Stradivari which he has on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation and a 1694 Giuseppe Guarneri ‘filius Andreae’ from J&A Beare in London.
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VideoWingsuit flyer and... trainee violin maker
This video from the BBC shows wingsuit flyer Sam Laming perform a death-defying leap and proximity flight over Mount Snowdon in Wales. In passing we learn that he is also a trainee violin maker, and there is a short clip of him in the workshop.
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VideoRenaud Capuçon performs Debussy's Clair de Lune with Lahav Shani
As an encore to the concert on 18 May 2018, Renaud Capuçon performs a transcription for violin and piano of Debussy’s Clair de Lune. The video is courtesy of France Musique, which has a new English language website at www.francemusique.com
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VideoViolin techniques with James Ehnes: straight bow
This set of short videos with Canadian violinist James Ehnes were published by CBC Music in 2016. They feature him discussing and demonstrating particular playing techniques. See ‘Related Video’ for the rest in the series
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VideoViolin techniques with James Ehnes: ricochet
This set of short videos with Canadian violinist James Ehnes were published by CBC Music in 2016. They feature him discussing and demonstrating particular playing techniques. See ‘Related Video’ for the rest in the series
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VideoViolin techniques with James Ehnes: spiccato
This set of short videos with Canadian violinist James Ehnes were published by CBC Music in 2016. They feature him discussing and demonstrating particular playing techniques. See ‘Related Video’ for the rest in the series
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VideoViolin techniques with James Ehnes: col legno
This set of short videos with Canadian violinist James Ehnes were published by CBC Music in 2016. They feature him discussing and demonstrating particular playing techniques. See ‘Related Video’ for the rest in the series
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VideoViolin techniques with James Ehnes: sul ponticello and sul tasto
This set of short videos with Canadian violinist James Ehnes were published by CBC Music in 2016. They feature him discussing and demonstrating particular playing techniques. See ‘Related Video’ for the rest in the series
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VideoViolin techniques with James Ehnes: double stops & chords
This set of short videos with Canadian violinist James Ehnes were published by CBC Music in 2016. They feature him discussing and demonstrating particular playing techniques. See ‘Related Video’ for the rest in the series
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VideoAnne Akiko Meyers plays the Star-Spangled Banner
In this video from WQXR, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers – a recent Strad cover star – performs her own arrangement of the US national anthem on the ‘Vieuxtemps’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’
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VideoGildas Quartet – Janáček: String Quartet no.1, 'The Kreutzer Sonata', 4th movement
The Gildas Quartet performs the final movement of Leoš Janáček’s 1923 String Quartet no.1, subtitled ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’. The work is named after Leo Tolstoy’s novella of the same name (which itself features Beethoven’s famous violin sonata) in which a woman is murdered by her husband who suspects her of ...
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VideoGeorges Méliès silent film fragment featuring violinist
This fragment is all that survives from illusionist and silent film pioneer Georges Méliès’ Lully ou Le violon brisé (Lully or The Broken Violin). In the film, a cook’s violin playing gets the entire staff dancing until the master of the house arrives. Méliès is best known for his film ...
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VideoJoseph Joachim plays Bach
In 1903, at the age of 72, Joseph Joachim became the first prominent classical violinist to be recorded. From those sessions comes this Bach G minor Adagio. Although he will have been well past his prime, these recordings do bear witness to the restrained and pure style of the man ...
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VideoSignum Quartet: Arrangement of Schubert's song 'Du bist die Ruh'
From the album ‘Aus Der Ferne’, featuring Schubert quartets and lieder arrangements. The album was praised by The Strad’s reviewer, with this particular track exemplifying the quartet’s ‘readings’ greatest beauty … the intimate emotional trinity they intertwine of dignity, fragility and pain’. Read: In the studio with the Signum Quartet ...
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VideoNexus Chamber Music Chicago: A Seated Staccato
Two members of NEXUS, a Chicago based chamber music collective, share a somewhat laid-back version of violin showpiece Hora Staccato Brian J. Hong, violin, Alexander Hersh, cello
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News15-strong double bass ensemble plays Joe Hisaishi medley
A double bass ensemble from the School of Music at Korea’s National University of Arts performs a medley of Studio Ghibli film themes by Joe Hisaishi, in an arrangement by Yang Joon Suk.
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Video'Playing', a short film from St Mary's Music School, Edinburgh
Violinist Nicola Benedetti and cellist Steven Isserlis feature in this new short film showing them tutoring pupils from Scotland’s national music school, St Mary’s in Edinburgh. The teenage pupils on the brink of leaving the school are violinist Sophie Williams and cellist Hugh MacKay.
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VideoRolf Lislevand plays a Stradivarius guitar
Norwegian early music specialist Rolf Lislevand plays the 1679 ‘Sabionari’ Stradivari, the only guitar by the maker which is currently playable. The piece is a Tarantela by Spanish Baroque composer Santiago de Murcia. Read: The ‘Sabionari’ Stradivarius guitar, 1679 [gallery]
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VideoArvo Pärt, Fratres – The Rogue Ensemble
Emily Nebel and Christopher Janwong McKiggan, members of the US-based Rogue Ensemble, perform a violin and piano version of Arvo Pärt’s Fratres. Produced by Richie Hawley/LittleFrenchie FilmhouseCinematography: Richie HawleyAudio Engineer: Andy BradleyMastering: Richie HawleyLighting: Chris LeeProduction Assistant: Jennifer LeMairePost Audio: Wireroad StudiosMakeup: Darcy Teasley Hair: Trey GillenWardrobe: Richie Hawley
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VideoEllinor D'Melon: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, 2nd & 3rd movement
The 17-year-old Cuban/Jamaican violinist Ellinor D’Melon here performs the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (second and third movements) in recital with pianist Vadim Gladkov at the Sony Auditorium in Madrid, Spain. D’Melon is currently studying at the Reina Sofia School of Music in Madrid with Zakhar Bron.
