All Video articles – Page 100
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Article5 solutions to slipping violin pegs
Online piano and violin tutor Alison Sparrow demonstrates five ways to prevent slipping violin pegs.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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ArticleThe Nightingale Quartet performs Shostakovich
The Nightingale Quartet performs the Adagio from Shostakovich's Third String Quartet. The Copenhagen-based ensemble is featured in The Strad's January 2015 issue, out now.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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ArticleViolist Lech Antonio Uszynski performs the 'Gibson' Stradivarius on Polish television
Violist Lech Antonio Uszynski performs a Polish Caprice by Grazyna Bacewicz on the 'Gibson' Stradivarius on Polish television.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 Josef Suk performs Dvorák's Violin Concerto
Violinist Josef Suk performs the first movement of his great grandfather Antonín Dvorák's Violin Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.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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ArticleCellist Bernard Greenhouse performs Song of the Birds aged 95
American cellist Bernard Greenhouse performs the Catalan 'Song of the Birds', arranged by his teacher Pablo Casals, at the age of 95. Watch Greenhouse give a masterclass on Haydn's Second Cello Concerto. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free ...
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ArticleNew York Philharmonic performs Danse Macabre
The New York Philharmonic rings in the New Year with a performance of Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre conducted by Lorin Maazel, featuring then concertmaster Glenn Dicterow in the solo violin role. The concert took place on New Year's Eve 2008.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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ArticleString quartet joined by impromptu ballet dancers in the NY subway
The Brazilian Arts Ensemble, violinists Eliano Braz and Rebekah Butler, violist Allyson Clare and cellist Tim Rusterholz, performs Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto in the New York subway † joined halfway through by a group of impromptu ballet dancers.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
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ArticleViolinist Nigel Kennedy performs Bach's Two-Part Inventions
Violinist Nigel Kennedy and cellist Juliet Welchman perform arrangements of Bach's Two-Part Inventions nos. 1, 6, 8 and 14, originally written for keyboard.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 Joshua Bell and Igudesman & Joo present Christmas Confusion
Violinist Joshua Bell teams with comedy musicians Igudesman & Joo to present a glorious Jewish/Christmas mash-up. Watch the star soloist as you have never seen him before...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 Joshua Bell performs Let It Snow
Violinist Joshua Bell and friends perform an attractive arrangement of Let It Snow for WQXR radio at The Green Space in New York in December 2013.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 Zakhar Bron gives masterclass on Bach's Partita no.2
We can play it faster or slower, but most important is to keep the dance-like feel in any speed'Respected tutor Zakhar Bron gives a violin masterclass on Bach's Partita no.2 at the Verbier Festival Academy. The full 104-minute video is available to buy as a download or DVD ...
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ArticleViolinist Daniel Hope performs Vivaldi's 'Winter' Recomposed
Violinist Daniel Hope performs 'Winter' from Max Richter's 'Recomposed' version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Orchestra L'arte del Mondo.Hope contributes a Masterclass feature on the traditional version of Vivaldi's 'Winter' in the January 2015 issue of The Strad, out now.Read Hope's 6 Pieces of Advice for Violinists.Subscribe to ...
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ArticleCellist Kevin Fox performs Katy Perry's Roar alongside a live tiger
I don't think there's anything that can prepare you for the size of a full-size tiger'Canadian cellist Kevin Fox performs pop star Katy Perry's 'Roar' using a looping pedal board while sitting next to a live tiger.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of ...
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ArticleNightingale Quartet performs Nielsen's String Quartet no.1
The Nightingale Quartet performs Nielsen's String Quartet no.1 op.13. The ensemble appears on the cover of The Strad's newly redesigned January 2015 issue, out now.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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ArticleSteven Isserlis on period instruments and his Stradivarius cello
I have always said that playing on an authentic or period instrument is like acting Shakespeare with original pronunciation. It will makes some things simpler and clearer'Steven Isserlis talks about his love of period instruments and his Stradivarius cello ahead of performances with the Academy of Ancient Music ...
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ArticleViolinist Zakhar Bron gives Bach masterclass
The playing should never be cramped or colourless. The tutti sections shouldn't be colourless either, but the solo sections must prove † in competition with the ensemble † their sense of individuality'Respected teacher Zakhar Bron gives a masterclass on Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV1041.Bron is interviewed ...
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov on Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy
You must show off all your virtuosity. You are playing as if you have played this 100 times and it feels too easy † you need to attract more attention'Violin virtuoso Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy. The full 55-minute video is available to buy ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs the Devil's Trill Sonata
Violinist Itzhak Perlman demonstrates impressive ornamenting skills in Giuseppe Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata. Discover 7 ways to improve your trills from The Strad's archive. 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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ArticleYehudi Menuhin tries out a Stradivarius violin at Sotheby's
Yehudi Menuhin tries out a Stradivarius violin at auction house Sotheby's in 1971 before the instrument goes on sale.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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ArticleViolinists Ruggiero Ricci and Ivry Gitlis clowning around
Legendary violinists Ruggiero Ricci and Ivry Gitlis share musical jokes while lying on a bed together. An excerpt from documentary 'Ruggiero Ricci † Life is a Violin', filmed for Xochil Productions and available in full on medici.tv. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
