Videos – Page 89
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ArticlePaul Silverthorne gives LSO viola masterclass on Stamitz and Bach
There are so many different opinions on how Bach should be played. You can't please everybody, so it's important to play in the style you really believe in'Paul Silverthorne from the London Symphony Orchestra gives a viola masterclass on Stamitz and Bach.Watch: Sydney Symphony masterclass – Beethoven Symphony ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Vivaldi's Seasons with the Mutter Virtuosi
Music is more than a passion and a hobby - music is a great bridge between people and can help us understand each other's cultural roots. It doesn't judge us or separate us from each other like religion tends to do.' Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and her Mutter ...
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ArticleNobuko Imai gives viola masterclass
Watch your breathing as you play - breathe out as you begin your first phrase' Amsterdam Conservatory viola professor Nobuko Imai gives a masterclass at the University of Valencia. Read: The viola should sound like a human voice, says Nobuko Imai
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman talks about practice
It's wrong to think that if you put in five hours per day you'll achieve a certain amount, and if you do eight hours, you'll achieve that much more' Violinist Itzhak Perlman speaks about achieving an effective practice routine at Elon University. Read: Never practise for more ...
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ArticleViolinist Nicola Benedetti performs White Christmas with Rod Stewart
Violinist Nicola Benedetti joins singer Rod Stewart at Stirling Castle in Scotland in November 2012 to perform an arrangement of White Christmas. Watch: Violinist Joshua Bell and Igudesman & Joo present Christmas Confusion Watch: Violinist Nicola Benedetti gives Ysaÿe masterclass
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ArticleCellist Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss perform The Wexford Carol
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma joins bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss to perform traditional Irish Christmas carol, The Wexford Carol.Read: 9 opinions on performance and career by cellist Yo-Yo Ma
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ArticleCellist Nick Canellakis 'interviews' violinist Itzhak Perlman
As a string player you have to figure out how to make a decent sound, then where to put your fingers to play in tune. By the time you have figured that out, it's been 10 years. Pianists just press down a note and they've made a ...
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ArticleViolinist Anne-Sophie Mutter rehearses Mozart with Boston Symphony Orchestra
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter rehearses the Presto from Mozart's Violin Concerto no.1 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall in September 2011. Watch: Anne-Sophie Mutter films her performance with a head cam
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Article9-year-old violinist Leia Zhu performs Kreisler's Tambourin Chinois
Leia Zhu, aged nine, performs Kreisler's Tambourin Chinois in the first round of the 2015 International ‘Nutcracker’ Contest for Young Musicians in Moscow in December 2015 - which she won. Watch her performing Mendelssohn in the competition final.A student of Itzhak Rashkovsky, the young violinist won the International ...
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ArticleThe Strad Masterclass: Ray Chen on Mozart's Third Violin Concerto
What makes Mozart so difficult to play? It's finding that perfect balance between simplicity on one hand, and complexity on the other. Like being young and energetic, but having a mature and experienced sound' Ray Chen talks about finding a balance in Mozart - and compares his music to a ...
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ArticleViolinist Midori on coping with stage fright
Violinist Midori speaks about dealing with performance nerves for Classical Chops.
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ArticleLeonidas Kavakos performs Sibelius Violin Concerto
Leonidas Kavakos performs the third movement of Sibelius's Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in February 2015. Kavakos talks about his ever-deepening relationship with the Sibelius Concerto in The Strad's January 2016 issue - out Friday. Read: Leonidas Kavakos on modern violin ...
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ArticleJohn Williams conducts Star Wars with the Boston Pops
Film composer John Williams conducts his Star Wars theme with the Boston Pops orchestra.Watch: Violinist Itzhak Perlman on working with John Williams on Schindler's ListWatch: Violinist Itzhak Perlman performs Schindler's List conducted by John Williams
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ArticleRepairing a violin crack
Jonathan Cooper of Acoustic Artisans in Portland repairs a violin owned by Mark O'Connor.Minutes before the folk fiddler was due to give a concert in South Dakota, his violin fell from a table, leaving a crack along the entire top of the body and another on its base.Watch: ...
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ArticleThe Strad Technique: Michael Frischenschlager's Violin Scale System
Michael Frischenschlager, professor emeritus at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, explains his two-octave violin scale and arpeggio system for improving tone and intonation in The Strad's December 2015 issueStudents work in pairs, playing in harmony, and perform each exercise ppp and fff, in major and ...
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ArticleViolinist Robert Gupta on music as medicine
Music is medicine. Music changes us. As musicians we take something that exists within all of us at our very fundamental core - our emotions - and through our artistic lens, we are able to shape those emotions into reality'LA Philharmonic violinist Robert Gupta gives a TED Talk ...
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ArticleChristel Lee performs Bartók at the 2015 Sibelius Competition
Christel Lee performs the first movement of Bartók's Second Violin Concerto in the final of the 2015 International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. The US violinist was named the competition winner and received €25,000.Watch: Christel Lee performs Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in 2014
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Article9-year-old violinist Leia Zhu gives winning Mendelssohn performance at Moscow ‘Nutcracker’ Contest
Leia Zhu, aged nine, won first prize in the stringed instrument category of the 2015 International ‘Nutcracker’ Contest for Young Musicians in Moscow on 7 December. The UK violinist is the youngest contestant to win a gold medal in the competition's 16-year history.This year the televised contest received ...
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ArticleChristian Poltéra performs Bach on 1711 Stradivarius cello
Cellist Christian Poltéra performs the Sarabande from Bach's First Cello Suite at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.The instrument features in The Strad’s 2016 calendar, ‘Cellos of the Stars’, on sale now.John Dilworth explores the stories and craftsmanship behind each of the twelve instruments showcased in ...
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ArticleAugustin Hadelich performs Paganini's Caprice no.9
The German violinist, who has just been nominated for a classical Grammy award, gives a rendition of Paganini's Ninth Caprice 'The Hunt' as an encore after a performance with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on 25 April 2014. 'I change all of my strings at the same time, ...
