Videos – Page 97
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ArticleViolinist Nigel Kennedy performs Purple Haze
British violinist Nigel Kennedy performs his own arrangement of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.Read The Strad's interview with Kennedy on Bach, Hendrix and why he thinks music students should skip college.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase back ...
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ArticleSevere hailstorm and flash flooding damages Freiburg Conservatory of Music
A severe hailstorm in Freiburg, Germany has damaged the city's music school with repair costs estimated to be around €1m. German newspaper Badische Zeitung reported that large amounts of water came through the roof of the concert hall following a performance by the university's Baroque Orchestra last week. ...
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ArticleViktoria Mullova performs Bartók's Violin Concerto no.2
Viktoria Mullova performs Bartók's Violin Concerto no.2 with Daniel Harding conducting The Mahler Chamber Orchestra.Watch Mullova perform Bach's Chaconne.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn performs Bach aged 15
Hilary Hahn gives a mature performance of the Gigue from Bach's Solo Violin Partita no.2 as an encore to her German debut in March 1995 at the age of 15 with Lorin Maazel and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. NB Picture and video are slightly out of ...
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ArticleYo-Yo Ma performs Elgar's Cello Concerto
Yo-Yo Ma performs the first movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim in 1997. Read 9 opinions on performance and career by cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free ...
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ArticleThe Strad panel discussion: surviving orchestral auditions
There is no substitute for the experience of doing an audition - walking into a room full of people that look at you sternly and often sit with their arms folded waiting to be impressed. I did 20 auditions before I had any success at all'The Strad's second ...
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ArticleViolin carries the weight of grand piano as substitute 'leg'
A violin is substituted for the leg of a grand piano and successfully holds its weight. Skip to 9:50 for the actual moment.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleJoshua Bell and Philippe Quint perform Sarasate's Navarra
Violinists Joshua Bell and Philippe Quint have fun performing Sarasate's Navarra in a private concert.Watch Bell's second Washington DC Metro performance, which drew large crowds in October 2014, following his anonymous and less successful busking experiment in 2007.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
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ArticleWhat did airline workers do to break my cello?
American musician Nicholas Gold, whose cello was broken by baggage handlers while checked into the hold on a recent flight with Southwest Airlines, has made a video demonstrating just how strong his (now badly damaged) carbon fibre Stevenson case is - and therefore how much force workers would ...
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov on competing with the orchestra
'You have to make a very sarcastic imitation of the orchestra...'Violinist Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto at the Royal Academy of Music, London – including tips for soloists on competing with the orchestra.The full 48-minute video is available to buy as a download ...
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ArticleJulia Fischer performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Julia Fischer performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Vasily Petrenko. Watch Fischer perform Paganini's Caprice no.2. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleMusic teacher loses temper with violinist
A music teacher loses his temper with a group of chatting students - with destructive and comic results. A video bound to resonate with frustrated teachers the world over...Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues ...
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ArticleViolinist Leila Josefowicz performs John Adams's Scheherazade.2
The level and intensity of emotional output in this piece is beyond anything I’ve done' Violinist Leila Josefowicz performs and discusses John Adams's Scheherazade.2 † dramatic symphony for orchestra and violin, a work that she premiered with the New York Philharmonic in March 2015. Read: Leila Josefowicz ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs Wieniawski at the age of 14
A 14-year-old Itzhak Perlman gives a sensational performance of the third movement of Wieniawski's Second Violin Concerto on US television. Watch Perlman at the age of 13 performing the third movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto on the Ed Sullivan Show. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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ArticleHeifetz, Rubinstein and Piatigorsky perform Mendelssohn
Legendary musicians, violinist Jascha Heifetz, pianist Artur Rubinstein and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky perform Mendelssohn's Piano Trio no.1 † a work they recorded along with the trios of Ravel for RCA Victor in 1949.The Strad's May 2015 issue, out now, examines how the advent of recording at the dawn ...
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ArticleBaltimore Symphony Orchestra gives free Peace Concert
Thank you everybody for sharing this sense of community with us. Music has incredible power to bring us together and to not be misunderstood in the way that words can' † BSO music director Marin AlsopThe Baltimore Symphony Orchestra gave a free Peace Concert yesterday (29 April 2015) ...
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ArticleSvante Henryson performs an ice cello at Norway's Ice Music Festival
One time the pegs froze and when I tried to tune the cello they split into pieces' Svante Henryson gives an admirably accurate performance on his ice cello at Norway's Ice Music Festival - while wearing padded gloves! Skip to 3:27 to see his performance. Read more ...
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ArticleViolinist Yehudi Menuhin performs Wieniawski's Scherzo Tarantelle
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin gives an exceedingly fast performance of Wieniawski's Scherzo Tarantelle in 1947. Read Menuhin’s first appearance in The Strad, aged 10, in 1926. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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Article12-year-old violinist Daniel Lozakovitj performs Saint-Saëns's Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovitj, who at the age of 13 has signed to British agency Enticott Music Management, gave an impressively mature and polished performance Saint-Saëns's Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso at the age of 12 with the Talich Philharmonia Prague Orchestra on New Year's Day 2014.The young artist, ...
