Videos

The Casals Quartet performs Mozart

29 July 2010

Our August cover stars play early Mozart with Baroque set-up

Birthday Boy Schumann

24 June 2010

Top players including Mischa Maisky and Lars Anders Tomter perform Schumann's Piano Quintet at the 2007 Verbier Festival.

Arthur Grumiaux performs Beethoven

26 May 2010

The Strad's Great Violinist for June demonstrates his elegance and musical integrity in this performance of the Violin Concerto

Natalie Clein plays Haydn

26 May 2010

In the June issue the British cellist tells us about her new recording of Kodály. Here she performs Haydn in Spain

Leonid Kogan plays the 'Cannon' - or does he?

30 March 2010

The intensity and clarity of the Russian's playing show through in this short film of him performing Paganini but opinion is divided as to whether he plays Guarneri's 'Cannon' throughout the clip.

The Artemis Quartet plays Brahms

30 March 2010

An interview with our April cover stars and excerpts from their Brahms Piano Quintet recording with Leif Ove Andsnes

Violist Antoine Tamestit

02 March 2010

The star of our March issue talks about Schnittke and Shostakovich

The Strad's video of the week

05 February 2010

Is this one of the most sublime moments of musical history ever filmed? Perlman and Zukerman at the height of their powers and playing around like kids (in the best possible sense!) And even through Y...

Tracy Silverman

12 January 2010

The electric violinist, who writes about electric violin tricks in the January issue, performs a medley of Led Zeppelin songs

Esperanza Spalding

12 January 2010

Our January cover star bassist Esperanza Spalding plays Body and Soul in Copenhagen



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