Videos – Page 73
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ArticleViolinist Renaud Capuçon performs solo Bach
French violinist Renaud Capuçon performs the Allemande from Bach's Second Partita for solo violin in D minor BWV 1004 in a performance recorded in October 2016 for Le Temps. Watch: Renaud Capuçon rehearses Beethoven’s Violin Concerto 2017 Watch: Renaud Capuçon performs Korngold’s Violin Concerto
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ArticleViolinist Rachel Podger on matching technique and musicality
Often you find that technique and musicality marry quite well. Something that works musically will so often also work from a technical perspective. And the opposite is also true - that if you change a passage for technical reasons it suddenly makes more musical sense too!' Baroque ...
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ArticleRay Chen rehearses Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Ray Chen rehearses Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko for performances that took place on 22 and 23 June 2017. The video features commentary and insights from Chen about the concerto - the first work he ever played with an ...
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov performs Paganini's Caprice no.2, aged 16
Maxim Vengerov performs Paganini's Second Caprice at the age of 16 as an encore at the Gasteig Philharmonic Hall in Munich, Germany in 1990. Read: Paganini, the great violinist, is taught a lesson Watch: Violinist Maxim Vengerov performs Paganini’s Caprice no.24
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Article13-year-old violinist NaKyung Kang gives winning Sibelius performance at Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians
South Korean violinist NaKyung Kang, aged 13, performs Sibelius's Violin Concerto in the Violin Division of the 2017 International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians - which she won alongside 14-year-old violinist Eugene Kawai from Japan. The contest was held last month in Kazakhstan, also featuring Piano and ...
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ArticleViolinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis perform Brahms's Double Concerto
Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis perform Brahms's Double Concerto with the Academy of St Martinuin the Fields at the Bravo! Vail 2017 Music Festival in Colorado. The performance was recorded live on 24 June 2017 with Bell conducting from the violin. Read: ‘I often have ...
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ArticleVienna Philharmonic audition masterclass - principal cellist Tamás Varga on Brahms
There are two separate statements in the opening: the first is hopeful and questioning; the second provides an answer' Vienna Philharmonic principal cellist Tamás Varga coaches Clara Abel on an excerpt from Brahms’s Symphony no. 2 in the Resnick Education Wing of New York's Carnegie Hall on ...
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VideoThe Strad Masterclass: violist Paul Neubauer on Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata
‘This is not bombastic Schubert. It is a gentle piece and it’s not about showing off - it’s about sharing music between friends’ ViolistPaul Neubauer speaks about performing the second and third movements of Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata to The Strad, and performs the work in the video above in an ...
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ArticleChiaroscuro Quartet and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout perform Mozart
UK period ensemble the Chiaroscuro Quartet - violinists Alina Ibragimova and Pablo Hernán Benedí, violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion - performs Mozart's Piano Concerto no.12 with pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout in a video filmed by BR-Klassik. In The Strad's July 2017 issue the Chiaroscuro Quartet discusses ...
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ArticleVibrato in slow motion - on violin and cello
As part of a series of studies on vibrato pitch centre (2004, 2005, 2014), researchers Rebecca MacLeod of the University of North Carolina and John Geringer of Florida State University asked 60 university string players and a former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic to perform a ...
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn performs music for babies
In the video above Hilary Hahn gives a concert for babies on 28 April 2017 in association with the Auditorium of the National Orchestra of Lyon. The violinist announced in March that she would give concerts for parents and babies, having identified a gap in the market ...
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ArticleViolinist Ana Chumachenco on body movement when playing
When you play you are moving around everywhere, but in the most important places for you to be free - the arms and torso - you are tense' Italian violinist Ana Chumachenco discusses body movement in Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto in a masterclass recorded at the Verbier ...
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ArticleCellist Mischa Maisky performs Bach in the mountains
Cellist Mischa Maisky performs the Prelude from Bach's First Cello Suite as an encore at Rifugio Rosetta - 2.581 meters above sea level on the western edge of the Plateau Pale above the village of San Martinu di Castrozza, Italy. The performance took place as part ...
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov performs Vivaldi with 2016 Wieniawski Competition winners
Maxim Vengerov performs Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins in B minor with the first, second and third prize winners of the 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, held in October 2016. Performing with Vengerov are first prize winner Veriko Tchumburidze, second prize winner Bomsori Kim and third ...
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ArticleIoana Cristina Goicea gives winning Tchaikovsky performance at Michael Hill Violin Competition
Ioana Cristina Goicea performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in the Grand Final of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, held on 10 June 2017 at Auckland Town Hall in New Zealand - which she won. The 24-year-old Romanian violinist receives NZ$40,000, a recording contract with the Atoll label, ...
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ArticleViolinist Ivry Gitlis improvises with Gypsy musicians
Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis improvises with Gypsy musicians in a clip from the 1970s. Watch: 93-year-old violinist Ivry Gitlis performs Kreisler Read: 8 opinions on performance and career by violinist Ivry Gitlis
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ArticleLuke Hsu performs Wieniawski at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition
Luke Hsu, one of three violinists selected to progress to the final of the 2017 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand on 10 June, performs Wieniawski's Faust in the quarter-final. The violinists are competing for a top prize of NZ$40,000, a recording contract with the ...
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ArticleCellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia performs in the final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017
Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia performs Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto with the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Stéphane Denève in the final of the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition – where he won third prize of €17,000 and concert opportunities. Currently pursuing a master's degree at the Hochschule für ...
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ArticleCellist Victor Julien-Laferrière gives winning performance at Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017
French cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière performs Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto with the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Stéphane Denève in the final of the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition - where he won the grand prize of €25,000 and concert opportunities. A former student of Heinrich Schiff at the ...
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ArticleCellist Alisa Weilerstein on optimal body movement while playing
The cello is a big, unwieldy instrument and it is easy to let it control you, if you are not careful...' Cellist Alisa Weilerstein speaks with Paul Katz at Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music about using body motion to optimal effect when playing. The interview was ...
