Videos – Page 46
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ArticleDavid Oistrakh performs Debussy's The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
On the great violinist's birthday today, we share this video of him performing a transcription of Debussy's La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) with pianist Frida Bauer in 1972, displaying his lauded warmth of tone. Read The Strad's guide to David Oistrakh, including ...
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VideoTrondheim Chamber Music Competition
In the semi-final of the Trondheim Chamber Music Competition, which concludes tonight, the Paris-based Trio Hélios played Brahms’s Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101 No. 3.
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VideoLeonidas Kavakos plays Beethoven at Tanglewood
Leonidas Kavakos joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as conductor and violinist this past August, for a programme including Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7. This video features an excerpt from his Beethoven performance.
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VideoHeifetz, Gershwin: It Ain't Necessarily So
Jascha Heifetz plays his own arrangement of Gershwin’s ’It Ain’t Necessarily So’ from Porgy and Bess
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VideoEugene Fodor performance and interview on Johnny Carson
First aired on 8 February 1990, this was Eugene Fodor’s comeback after a turbulent period in his life, including being arrested for cocaine and heroin possession and going to rehab. A few months earlier, the New York Times had basically announced the end of his career in a feature titled ...
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VideoZemtsov family viola quartet
Dana Zemtsov, parents Mikhail and Julia, and cousin Daniil, all violists, perform Max von Weinzierl’s Nachtstück
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Article2Cellos star Luka Sulic leads his arrangement of Vivaldi’s Spring
Filmed live in Trieste, this video features cellist Luka Šulić performing the first movement of Spring from his own arrangement of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Šulić is well known as half of the record breaking 2Cellos along with fellow Croat Stjepan Hauser. The two announced a break from the group ...
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VideoGreat teachers on film: Ivan Galamian
The great pedagogue takes a young Joshua Bell through his paces
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VideoPlay With Ray: The Winner Takes the Stage
Three young finalists from around the world took to the Hollywood Bowl stage with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Ray Chen on August 8, 2019, as part of the LA Philharmonic’s Play With Ray competition. After a day at Universal Studios, masterclasses with Ray, and an up-close encounter with centuries-old ...
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VideoNicola Benedetti gives masterclass on Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
Nicola Benedetti works with Juillliard School graduate Gregory Cardi on the first movement of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64.
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VideoBBC Radio 4: The Instrument Makers
In this radio programme, cellist and presenter Verity Sharp hears the stories of four very different instrument makers
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VideoAnne-Sophie Mutter: A Life with Beethoven
In this documentary, originally released in 2000, Anne-Sophie Mutter gives us an insight into her view of Beethoven and shares experiences of playing his music, starting with her teenage years, when she performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Herbert Von Karajan. The documentary includes video clips and photos of Mutter ...
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VideoJoshua Bell on childhood dreams, party tricks and dance moves
A quickfire interview with American violinist Joshua Bell at the 2019 Verbier Festival, from Medici.TV’s ‘Swiss Cheese Stories’ series. See more at Medici.TV’s Verbier minisite
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VideoBehind-the-Scenes with Anne-Sophie Mutter & John Williams
The violinist and composer introduce their collaborative album Across the Stars, released on 30 August. Familiar themes from Star Wars, Harry Potter and more were recast as virtuosic violin showpieces for the album, featuring the Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles conducted by John Williams himself.
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VideoAmateur luthier’s decade-long project to make violins for his 10 grandchildren
The story of Minnesota fiddler Gene Van Alstine who received his grandfather’s violin and wanted to leave the same legacy for his ten grandchildren
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VideoBass conversion from 4-string to 5-string
This is the first in a series from the workshop of Thomas & George Martin on re-converting a German bass from 4-string (with extension) back to its original state as a 5-string. View the whole series on the Thomas & George Martin YouTube channel
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VideoCellist performs Slipknot cover
From the YouTube channel ‘sugar cello’ comes this reinterpretation of the American heavy meal band Slipknot’s 2014 track ‘The Devil In I’. Hiding behind the mask is classically trained Albanian/Greek cellist, stage name Nina, who completed his postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Müsik Köln under Maria Kliegel in 2015. ...
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VideoBruckner’s String Quintet in F major
Performed by Alina Ibragimova, Amihai Grosz, Anne Gastinel, Gijs Kramer and Liza Ferschtman during the 2013 Delft Chamber Music Festival. Filmed by 24 Classics 00:00 Gemäßigt. Moderato 12:58 Scherzo: Schnell 17:59 Trio: Langsamer 20:41 Adagio 35:29 Finale: Lebhaft bewegt
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VideoGil Shaham plays Prokofiev at the Proms
The violinist plays Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No 2 at the BBC Proms with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Taken from a concert on 31st July 2019.
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VideoKavakos on pre-concert rituals, Swiss cheese and never getting drunk
In this video from Medici TV filmed at the 2018 Verbier Festival, violinist Leonidas Kavakos answers some quickfire questions Also watch: Renaud Capuçon answers the same set of questions Video: Verbier Festival 2018: one-on-one with Renaud Capuçon
