Videos – Page 109
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ArticleEmerson String Quartet performs Shostakovich's Quartet no.3
The Emerson String Quartet performs the third movement of Shostakovich's String Quartet no.3 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. Cellist David Finckel, who stepped down from his post last year, has written a guide on building and maintaining a successful career. ...
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ArticleMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond plays the 'Lipinski' Stradivarius
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond discusses and plays selections from Giuseppe Tartini's 'Devil's Trill' Sonata on Tartini's own violin — later to be known as the 1715 'Lipinski' Stradivarius, after Polish violinist Karol Lipinski. The violin was stolen from Almond in an armed robbery this ...
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ArticleRachel Barton Pine performs Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Deep River arr. Maud Powell
American violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Deep River arranged by her compatriot, violinist Maud Powell (1867-1920), with pianist Matthew Hagle on Chicago Tonight. Pine paid tribute to Powell at the 56th Grammy Awards ceremony on 25 January 2014 as the Recording Academy honoured the great ...
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ArticleThe Ysaÿe Quartet performs Ravel's String Quartet
The Ysaÿe Quartet, which brings its 30-year career to an end this week, performs the first movement (Allegro Moderato. Très doux) from Ravel's String Quartet in November 2012. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase ...
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ArticleSergey Khachatryan performs Ysaÿe's Les furies
Violinist Sergey Khachatryan, who this week was awarded the £50,000 Credit Suisse Young Artist Award, performs Les furies, the final movement from Ysaÿe's Violin Sonata no. 2. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase back issues ...
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ArticleClassic Ivry Gitlis
In honour of The Strad's new gallery, 'The hands of violinist Ivry Gitlis' — the first in a series focusing on the hands of famous string players — here are the violinist's hands in action, performing Saint-Saëns's Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleAugustin Hadelich performs Paganini's Caprice no. 24
Violinist Augustin Hadelich, who has blogged for The Strad on performing Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the LA Philharmonic with only a few days' notice, performs Paganini's Caprice no. 24 on 10 December 2010 in Saarbrücken, Germany. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
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ArticleAaron Rosand performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy
American violinist Aaron Rosand performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy op. 25 with the CBC Concert Orchestra in 1969. Rosand is writing a series of technical blogs for The Strad - you can read his advice on vibrato and producing a beautiful tone. Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleYehudi Menuhin performs Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin performs Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs) op. 20, accompanied by pianist Adolph Baller. The Menuhin Competition will be returning to London in 2016 to mark its founder's 100th anniversary.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. ...
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ArticleMinnesota Orchestra perform Mahler's Fifth Symphony Scherzo
The Minnesota Orchestra, who have recently signed a new three-year contract following a 15-month musician lockout, perform under their former music director Osmo Vänskä at the 2012 BBC Proms. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase ...
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ArticleJascha Heifetz performs Bach's Chaconne
A 1970 recording shows the 69-year-old violinist on fine form. Read The Strad’s 7 ways to play perfect chords and see how other great violinists tackled the same work: James Ehnes Arthur Grumiaux Ida Haendel Gidon Kremer Midori Nathan Milstein Viktoria Mullova Gil Shaham Isaac Stern Maxim Vengerov Frank Peter ...
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Nathan Milstein
A mighty performance of the ultimate violin work by the Russian violinist
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ArticleThe Silk Road Ensemble performs Arabian Waltz
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded the Silk Road Project in 1998 to develop cultural and educational projects through interaction between different performers and cultures from around the world. Here the ensemble performs Rabih Abou-Khalil's Arabian Waltz. The Silk Road Project features in our Alternative Ensembles feature published in the January ...
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ArticleBerklee World Strings perform The Passion of Rumi
The Berklee World Strings and vocalist Mayssa Karaa perform Hafez Nazeri's The Passion of Rumi at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, Massachusetts in November 2012. The performance features violin soloist Layth Othman Al Rubaye and cello soloist Naseem Alatrash, who is interviewed in our Alternative Ensembles ...
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ArticleGary Hoffman performs Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor
Cellist Gary Hoffman, who gives a Masterclass on Brahms in our January 2014 issue, here performs the fourth movement of the composer's great Piano Quintet in F minor with a stellar team of violinists Pinchas Zukerman, Ida Kavafian, violist Paul Neubauer and David Golub on piano, in ...
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ArticleGary Hoffman performs Bruch's Kol Nidrei
Gary Hoffman gives a Masterclass on Brahms's Third Cello Sonata in our January issue. Here he performs Bruch's Kol Nidrei with the Indiana University orchestra in a 75th birthday tribute to János Starker.Read some of Gary Hoffman's cello insights here and download the digital edition of the January ...
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ArticleViolist Maxim Rysanov performs Bach Cello Suites
Russian-born violist Maxim Rysanov performs Bach's Cello Suites nos. 1, 4 and 5. In the January issue, the viola player discusses practising Bach's Cello Suites arranged for viola. Click here to read about his detailed warm-up regimen. Rysanov's recording of Bach's Cello Suites nos. 2, 3 ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata
12 cover stars from The Strad 2013 January Félix Lajkó – the boundary-busting horse-whispering fiddler from Hungary February Alisa Weilerstein – Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations March the Calder Quartet – Beethoven's String Quartet op.95 April Christian Tetzlaff – Mozart Violin Concerto no.4 May ...
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ArticlePablo Casals €“ Bach Cello Suite no.1
12 cover stars from The Strad 2013 January Félix Lajkó – the boundary-busting horse-whispering fiddler from Hungary February Alisa Weilerstein – Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations March the Calder Quartet – Beethoven's String Quartet op.95 April Christian Tetzlaff – Mozart Violin Concerto no.4 May Tabea Zimmermann – Bartók Viola Concerto ...
