All Video articles – Page 119
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ArticleMenuhin plays Schumann
Yehudi Menuhin performs the second movement of Schumann's troubled Violin Concerto
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ArticleJack Benny demonstrates the significance of instrument comparisons
Classic Jack Benny violin comedy
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ArticleIona Brown performs The Lark Ascending
Violinist Iona Brown died on 5 June 2004. Here's one of her best-known Vaughan Williams recordings, made in 1972 with Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. This recording was enthusiastically received on its initial release, capturing the imagination of the record-buying public. ...
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ArticleTchaikovsky's Song Without Words played by Alexander Sitkovetsky
Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky gives a detailed insight into his practice regime in our June issue. Over the course of single day he experiments with playing without a shoulder rest, tackles some tricky cadenzas and looks over the Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Mozart Fourth and Shostakovich First concertos.Here's an archive performance by the ...
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ArticleThe Alarius Ensemble plays Rosenmüller
In the June issue, viola da gamba player Philippe Pierlot chooses the Alarius Ensemble's performance of this sonata by Johann Rosenmüller as one of his five favourite recordings of all time. 'Their interpretation still sounds to me completely modern, even after 50 years. The musicians inspired me ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter: Carmen Fantasy
French composer Georges Bizet died on 3 June 1875, exactly three months after the premiere of his most famous work, Carmen. Here's Anne-Sophie Mutter performing Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy in 2012, with the Tanglewood Youth Orchestra under conductor Andris Nelsons. Read more about Bizet and Sarasate in the ...
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ArticleSzymon Goldberg: Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
Polish-born American violinist Szymon Goldberg (1 June 1909–19 July 1993) made this recording of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto on 4 September 1957, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Eduard van Beinum. Recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh. The second volume of Szymon Goldberg's complete commercial recordings was published earlier this ...
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ArticleVadim Repin plays a Tchaikovsky encore
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky finished writing his Souvenir d'un lieu cher on 31 May 1878 – 135 years ago. Here, Vadim Repin performs the 'Mélodie' in E flat major as an encore, with Nikolai Lugansky at the piano.
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ArticleOistrakh plays Bartók's Violin Concerto no.1
Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto no.1 received its world premiere on 30 May 1958 – 50 years after its composition in 1907–1908. David Oistrakh was an early champion of the concerto, and performs here with the Moscow Radio Orchestra under Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The recording was made on 24 December ...
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ArticleHeifetz, Piatigorsky, Primrose
On 29 May 1962 this recording of Beethoven's Serenade op.8 won a Grammy award for Best Chamber Music Performance. Recorded 15–22 August 1960 by Jascha Heifetz (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) and William Primrose (viola). Listen to Heifetz and Primrose performing Handel's Passacaglia.
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ArticleMax Bruch's String Quartet no.1
A string quartet by the 14-year-old Max Bruch has been located in an archive in Frankfurt. According to musicologist Ulrike Kienzle, who found the manuscript, the themes of the second and third movements are identical to themes in Bruch's Quartet no.1 of 1858, performed here by the ...
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ArticleShlomo Mintz plays Paganini
One of the greatest ever violinists, Niccolò Paganini, died on 27 May 1840 aged 57. Here's Shlomo Mintz performing the cadenza in Paganini's Violin Concerto no.1 at a 1997 concert with the Limburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yoel Levi. Mintz is playing Paganini's own violin, the 1743 'Cannone' ...
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ArticleCellist Emanuel Feuermann plays Dvorák and Popper
Cellist Emanuel Feuermann (22 November 1902–25 May 1942) made many recordings but very few filmed performances. Here is one of the few, made in 1939. Feuermann plays Dvorák's Rondo op.94 and Popper's Spinning Song, with Theodore Saidenberg at the piano.
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ArticleThe world's largest viola ensemble in performance
More than 300 musicians gathered at a shopping centre in Porto, Portugal, on 19 May to break the world record for the largest ever viola ensemble. The number of players has now been confirmed by Guinness World Records as 353 violists – 32 more than the previous ...
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ArticleDutilleux's Ainsi la nuit
French composer Henri Dutilleux died on 22 May 2013 at the age of 97. His many works for strings included the 1976 quartet Ainsi la nuit, Here is a performance by the Belcea Quartet. I. Nocturne - Parenthèse I II. Miroir d'espace - Parenthèse II III. Litanies ...
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ArticleHeifetz and Primrose perform Handel's Passacaglia
Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose play Handel's Passacaglia, arranged by Johan Halvorsen for violin and viola.Listen to Lionel Tertis and Albert Sammons' interpretation here.And Perlman and Zukerman's performance here.The viola-focused May issue of The Strad is still available: click here to find out more.
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ArticleHindemith performs his own String Quartet op.22
Our focus on the viola continues with this recording of the great violist and composer Paul Hindemith performing his String Quartet op.22 as part of his own Amar Quartet Download the viola-themed May issue of The Strad here.
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ArticleLouis Kaufman plays Vivaldi
Louis Kaufman, born on 10 May 1905, almost single-handedly brought Vivaldi back into the limelight with his 1947 recording of The Four Seasons. Winner of the Grand Prix du Disque in 1950, it also provoked a surge of interest in Baroque playing; Kaufman commented on the current ...
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ArticleZukerman and Perlman in action
Violin€“viola dream team performs the Handel€“Halvorsen Passacaglia
