Videos – Page 71
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VideoNigel Kennedy talks about his devotion to Aston Villa F.C.
’One time I took two years off the violin to watch the Villa, and I used to watch the Villa, the Villa reserves and the Villa youth team, every week … some people would call it wasting your life.’ In this video from Deutsche Welle’s English language football YouTube channell ...
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VideoLuthiers Stefan-Peter Greiner and Mark Jennings at IMS Prussia Cove
The materials on day one With sounds of rehearsals in the background, luthiers Stefan-Peter Greiner and Mark Jennings remove the mould from the violin they are working on collaboratively while resident at the International Musicians Seminar (IMS) at in Cornwall, England. ‘The project will help the musicians ...
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VideoHenning Kraggerud's Musical Calendar
In this video, recorded over the course of 2016, Norwegian violinist and composer Henning Kraggerud and his then nine-year-old daughter Alma play his Musical Calendar. Composed as a Christmas gift to friends and family in 1992, the Musical Calendar features a duet for each month of the year. All the ...
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VideoEivind Holtsmark Ringstad plays Vieuxtemps' Élégie
Norwegian violist Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad is a current BBC New Generation Artist and a former winner of the Eurovision Young Musician competition (2012). Here he plays Vieuxtemps’ Élégie op.30 with pianist David Meier. Holtsmark Ringstad plays a 1768 Guadagnini viola on loan from Dextra Musica, the musical instrument scheme ...
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VideoGreat French violin makers: F.L. Pique & J.B. Vuillaume
Another video from Sean Bishop of Bishop Instruments & Bows in London, here talking about two violins by François Louis Pique and one by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume – the latter, according to Bishop, being the ‘one true genius after Stradivari and Guarneri’.
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VideoKyung Wha Chung plays Sarasate's Caprice Basque op.24
A brief interview followed by a performance by Kyung Wha Chung, aged 22, in her first British TV appearance in 1970. Chung’s big break in the UK had come earlier that year, when she substituted for Itzhak Perlman in a concert with the London Symphony Orchestra to great acclaim, leading ...
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VideoDocumentary on the 'Tuscan' Stradivari – featuring Fabio Biondi
This documentary is linked to the upcoming release of the second volume of Treasures of Violin Making from Edizioni Scrollavezza & Zanrè, focusing on the 1690 ‘Tuscan’ Stradivari from the collection of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome. The video includes extracts of Baroque specialist Fabio Biondi playing Biber’s Chaconne ...
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VideoJames Ehnes plays Hora Staccato by Grigoraș Dinicu, arr. Heifetz
In this video from 2008, James Ehnes plays Hora Staccato, the showpiece by Romanian composer Grigoraș Dinicu, as arranged by Heifetz. As the name suggests, its challenges lie in fast staccato notes both up- and down-bow. The piece features on Ehnes’s CD/DVD Homage released on Onyx Classics, on which he ...
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VideoAugustin Hadelich performs his own Brahms cadenza
In this video recorded live on 1 June at the NRK Radio Concert Hall, in Oslo, Norway, Augustin Hadelich plays his own cadenza for the Brahms violin concerto. The Norwegian Radio Orchestra is conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Hadelich plays the 1723 Kiesewetter Stradivarius violin, on loan from Clement and Karen ...
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VideoAlexander Hersh plays Giovanni Sollima's Lamentatio for solo cello
In this video, New England Conservatory educated Alexander Hersh plays Giovanni Sollima’s 1998 work Lamentatio. Hersh won the cello category of the 2017 New York International Artists Competition and will be performing Lamentatio at the competition winners’ showcase on 24 September at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. He also won ...
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VideoMikyung Sung plays the Gigue from Hans Fryba's Suite im Alten Stil
In this informal backstage video from June, Mikyung Sung, a finalist at this year’s Bradetich Foundation Competition, plays the Gigue from Hans Fryba’s Suite im Alten Stil. Sung studied at the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul and at the Colburn School in Los Angeles.
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VideoTai Murray plays 'Aurora' from Ysaÿe's Sonata no.5
In this video from the 2017 Ilumina Festival, taking place in and around São Paulo, Brazil, Tai Murray plays the first movement of Ysaÿe’s Violin Sonata no.5. Chicago-born Murray, a former BBC New Generation Artist, recorded the complete Ysaÿe sonatas for Hyperion in 2012.
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VideoNikolaj Znaider discusses his Guarneri 'del Gesù'
In this video for the Czech Philharmonic, Nikolaj Znaider talks about the 1741 ‘Kreisler’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ which he plays on extended loan by the Royal Danish Theater through the Velux Foundation and the Knud Højgaard Foundation. The instrument was owned by legendary Austrian violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler from ...
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VideoDmitri Kogan plays Piazzolla's Winter
Dmitri Kogan, who has died aged 38, here plays ‘Winter’ from Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (arr. Desyatnikov)
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VideoLena Yokohama plays Vivaldi on newly restored 1749 Santo Serafin violin
In this video at the Violin Museum, Cremona (Museo del Violino), Japanese violinist Lena Yokohama plays a 1749 Santo Serafin violin. The museum has been coordinating the violin’s restoration on behalf of the Russian state collection, with Cremona-based luthiers Bruce Carlson and Bernard Neumann carrying out the work over the ...
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VideoNaples violin makers: Della Corte, Postiglione and Pistucci
Sean Bishop of Bishop Instruments & Bows in London talks us through some 19th-century Naples violin makers, some following Gagliano models and other with more individual touches. n.b. the video is flipped horizontally - Sean Bishop assures us his instruments are strung the usual way round
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VideoRachel Podger plays Biber's Rosary Sonata no.16, Passacaglia
English Baroque specialist Rachel Podger plays one of the earliest known works for solo violin, the Passacaglia from Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber’s Rosary Sonatas (also known as the Mystery Sonatas).
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VideoUpton Bass: Laminated or Solid Double Bass Ribs?
’When you get inside an old old instrument, you’ve got grafted pieces of wood, you’ve got linen cloth… it’s essentially bad plywood’. Gary Upton of Upton Bass in Mystic, Connecticut, explains the benefits of plywood ribs on a double bass.
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VideoMusic Of The Mind - a short film about music and the brain
In this partly dramatised short film based on true events, a violinist brain damaged in an accident nearly 30 years ago is given the opportunity to take part in music making through new technology developed by Plymouth University and the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in London. Rosemary Johnson was a ...
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VideoPekka Kuusisto plays Finnish folk song
In this second instalment of Pekka Kuusisto’s folk song videos from his home in Finland, the violinst plays a minuet from the village of Tuikka (Tjöck) in Ostrobothnia, a region of western Finland.
