Videos – Page 62
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VideoBaiba Skride leads Rossini's String Sonata no.3
From the 2017 Solsberg Festival. Baiba Skride and Andrés Gabetta, violins, Monika Leskovar, cello, and Roberto di Ronza, double bass, perform Gioacchino Rossini’s String Sonata no.3. It is part of a set of six three-movement works for the combination of two violins, cello and bass which was written when ...
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VideoClarissa Bevilacqua plays Bach on the 1669 'Clisbee' Stradivarius
Seventeen-year-old violinist Clarissa Bevilacqua performs the Andante from Bach’s Sonata no.2 on the 1669 ‘Clisbee’ Stradivari from the collection of the Museo del Violino, Cremona. Clarissa Bevilaqua’s biography: She started playing the violin at age five, and debuted at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago in front of ten thousand people ...
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VideoSheku Kanneh-Mason gets his Amati serviced by Florian Leonhard
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who was recently seen by millions playing at the internationally televised royal wedding, in this video from Classic FM takes the Amati which is on loan to him to have its soundpost adjusted by Florian Leonhard. Read: 17-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason receives 400-year-old Amati on permanent loan ...
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VideoHorses fascinated by cello playing
In this video, Danish cellist Ida Riegels plays one of her own compositions to horses at a riding school in Switzerland. Riegels is currently cycling the length of the Rhine, 1000 kilometres (620 miles) from the Swiss Alps to the Dutch North Sea coast, with a cello on her back, ...
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VideoElgar tribute from Bavarian State Orchestra strings
A string septet from the Bayerisches Staatsorchester, on tour in London, plays Land of Hope and Glory in the Barbican foyer on Elgar’s birthday
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VideoNigel Kennedy plays Gershwin at outdoor festival
British violinist Nigel Kennedy performs Gershwin’s Oh, Lady Be Good with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at The Biggest Weekend, a music festival organised by the BBC. Watch Kennedy’s full house-long set here
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VideoAbel Selaocoe peforms Lamentatio
South African cellist Abel Selaocoe performs his version of Lamentatio by Giovanni Sollima. The work is being performed by Selaocoe as part of ‘Sirocco’, a UK tour with the Manchester Collective taking in London, Liverpool and Manchester. ‘We are connecting folk traditions of the world through the idea of Sirocco, ...
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VideoMartinů - Three Madrigals for violin and viola (no.1)
Duo Florent, comprising Arianna Dotto, violin, and Joachim Angster, viola, perform the first of Bohuslav Martinů’s Three Madrigals for violin and viola. Recorded in Lansing, Michigan, by Sergei Kvitko, www.bluegriffin.com
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VideoRob Landes tries out a titanium violin
In this video, violinist Rob Landes experiments with a violin made out of sheet titanium. Its maker described some of the challenges invoveld in its construction: ‘The number one problem when working with titanium is it reacts with the oxygen in air anytime it is over 800 degrees F. The ...
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VideoMoszkowski: Suite for Two Violins & Piano
Moritz Moszkowski’s Suite for Two Violins and Piano, op.71 (first and second movements), filmed live at an LSO Discovery Lunchtime Concert event on 22 October 2010. Performed by Maxine Kwok-Adams, Rhys Watkins (violins) and Sophia Rahman (piano).
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VideoSheku Kanneh-Mason performs at royal wedding
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs during the signing of the register at the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Kanneh-Mason played Maria Theresia von Paradis’ Sicilienne, Gabriel Fauré’s Après un rêve and Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria. Want to know more about Sheku Kanneh-Mason? See our related articles below
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VideoMilena Pajaro-van de Stadt: Brahms Viola Sonata No.2
Violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt and pianist Asiya Korepanova perform Brahms’s Sonata for Viola and Piano op.120, no.2, in E flat major. The video was filmed on 18 June 2017 at the Linehan concert hall, UMBC, Baltimore, as part of Festival Baltimore.
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VideoTrailer: Forte – a documentary feature film
‘Forte’ is a documentary about women in classical music starring violinists Tatiana Berman and Eldbjørg Hemsing, and composer Lucia Caruso. It is directed by David Donnelly, who’s previous work includes ‘Maestro’, a documentary about Paavo Järvi. There is currently a Kickstarter campaign for completing the film. Film blurb: ‘In the ...
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ArticleA cello quartet with one cello
Four members of the Wiener Cello Ensemble 5+1 perform Ravel's Bolero on a single instrument to great comic effect. Watch: Music teacher loses temper with violinist – with destructive results
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VideoWhy Stradivarius violins are worth millions
From Vox comes a video exploring some of the mystique behind Stradivari violins. Featuring violinists Philippe Quint and Michelle Kim, luthier Joseph Curtin. Produced and presented by Dean Peterson for Vox.com.
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VideoDavid Oistrakh performs his own arrangement of the Liszt/Schubert Valse Caprice
In a live recording in 1972, David Oistrakh performs his own arrangement of the Liszt/Schubert Valse Caprice ‘Soirées de Vienne’, from the 9 Valses caprices d’après Schubert. The pianist is Frida Bauer.
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VideoAlbum trailer: Daniel Hope, Journey to Mozart
Daniel Hope introduces his new album, ‘Journey to Mozart’, featuring works by Gluck, Haydn, Salomon, Mysliveček and Mozart himself. Listen to the album: https://DG.lnk.to/hope_mozart
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VideoThe 5+1 common types of violin maker
Oslo based violin maker Jacob von der Lippe has a go at impersonating some of the violin maker types he’s come across.
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VideoThe Aizuri Quartet perform Beethoven's Grosse Fuge
In this video, filmed on 1 December 2017 at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Aizuri Quartet perform Beethoven’s op.133 Grosse Fuge. The Aizuri Quartet, which just won the $100,000 M-Prize competition, is string quartet in residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2017/18 season.
