All Video articles – Page 31
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VideoThe Strad Calendar 2021: Gasparo da Salò double bass c.1580
The workmanship of this bass is typical of Gasparo, with the distinctive double purfling and long, widely set f-holes
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VideoXuanhan Xu, winner of Pablo Casals International Award 2020, performs for competition audition
In this final audition video for the Pablo Casals International Award 2020, the competition winner, 16-year-old Xuanhan Xu, performs JS Bach’s Cello Suite No.3 and the first movement of Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129. Read: Winners announced for Pablo Casals International Award
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VideoIrish cellist Patrick Dexter gives lockdown performance against scenic backdrop
The Irish cellist Patrick Dexter, from County Mayo, has been giving regular performances outside in his backyard since the beginning of lockdown in March, playing music ranging from Schubert to traditional Irish folksongs. For more videos of Dexter performing, follow him on YouTube. Watch: Elton John’s ...
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Focus‘I hope our Bach might give another musician a slight push to keep going a little longer’ – Tim Crawford
The three Tims of the Teyber Trio (cellist Tim Posner, violist Timothy Ridout and violinist Tim Crawford) talk about their genesis as a group, playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and finding the motivation to rehearse during the time of COVID
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VideoNicola Benedetti and friends play Ernest Bloch’s Prayer
In this video, Nicola Benedetti and musical colleagues play a new arrangement by the Ayoub Sisters of Ernest Bloch’s ‘Prayer’ (originally composed in 1924 for Cello and Piano) - commissioned by the luxury furniture-making company Maker&Son in support of The Benedetti Foundation. This performance also features Yume Fujise and Charlie ...
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VideoGrand Teton Music Festival on location: New York
This concert from the Grand Teton Music Festival on location series (a 5-concert digital chamber music series featuring small ensembles, recorded and produced remotely in the home cities of Festival Orchestra musicians ) was held at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Avenue, New York on 12 November, with a programme ...
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VideoTeyber Trio plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations
The Teyber Trio (violinist Tim Crawford, violist Tim Ridout and cellist Tim Posner)) plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Read: Life Lessons: Timothy Ridout
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VideoAuner Quartett violinist plays ‘ex Rouse-Boughton’ Stradivari
the Auner Quartett from Vienna recently received two more Instruments from the National Bank of Austria, a Giovanni Grancino cello (‘ex Piatti’, - ‘ex Dunlop’, Milano 1706); and an Antonio Stradivari violin (‘ex Rouse-Boughton’, Cremona 1698). In this video, one of the group’s violinists - Barbara de Menezes Galante ...
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VideoHilary Hahn singing and playing violin
A short clip of the American violinist accompanying herself on the violin by singing. Read: Hilary Hahn begins year-long sabbatical Read: Advice I’d give my younger self: violinist Hilary Hahn
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VideoKanneh-Masons play Carnival of the Animals
The Kanneh-Mason family play the finale from Saint-Säens’s Carnival of the Animals
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Video‘I’ve certainly never had musicians disrobe down to their skin in rehearsals’ – Marin Alsop
The conductor breaks down orchestra scenes from movies and tv and determines how realistic they are
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VideoNicola Benedetti introduces the Global Violin Sessions
In this video, Nicola Benedetti introduces the Global Violin Sessions: A Cultural Exchange Part 1, her new venture with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Benedetti Foundation which takes participants on a musical journey around the world. Read: Benedetti Foundation presents the Global Violin Sessions
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VideoComposer Nimrod Borenstein talks about using illustrated notation in his new string quartet
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Quartetto di Cremona is releasing ‘Italian Postcards’, a new recording of quartets inspired by Italy from non-Italian composers. In this video, the quartet’s violist Simone Gramaglia speaks to Nimrod Borenstein - the only living composer on the recording - about the latter’s work, in particular ...
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VideoLockdown commissions 5: Lawrence Power plays Martyn Brabbins’s Matchless Space
In this, the fifth of ten videos filmed in and around empty iconic venues, violist Lawrence Power plays Martyn Brabbins’s ‘Matchless Space’ in the London Coliseum. Brabbins says: I was inspired to write ‘Matchless Space’ by the truly matchless viola playing of Lawrence Power, with whom I have enjoyed a ...
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VideoAnne-Sophie Mutter plays John Williams at the OPUS KLASSIK 2020 awards
The violinist plays John Williams’s ‘Nice to be around’ from ‘Cinderella Liberty’ at this year’s socially-distanced Opus Klassik Awards. Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter calls on German government to help musicians Watch: Anne-Sophie Mutter gives a socially-distanced Beethoven performance Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter has tested positive for coronavirus
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VideoStamford Symphony Gala Concert
Stamford Symphony’s first-ever Virtual Gala Concert, streamed live on 24 October 2020, featured violinist Pinchas Zukerman performing Bach’s violin concerto in A minor, and his wife, cellist Amanda Forsyth, performing ‘Les Larmes de Jacqueline’. Amanda Forsyth reveals her Sentimental Work in the November issue of The Strad. To read, click ...
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VideoGregor Piatigorsky live in concert
This is the only video of cellist Gregor Piatigorsky in a live concert performance. It was made in 1957 and features the cellist playing the Walton Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Malcom Sargent. Read: Great Cellists: Gregor Piatigorsky Read: My Heroes: Mischa Maisky on Mstislav Rostropovich and ...
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VideoAlexandra Conunova plays Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
In this video from 2015, the violinist plays Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the Orchestra International de Genève. To read her latest piece, ‘5 reasons why Vivaldi inspires me’, click here. Alexandra Conunova will release a new Vivaldi recording of Four Seasons with Aparté, out on 20 November 2020. Find out ...
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VideoWest Wycombe Chamber Music Festival: closing concert
This is the last concert of Lawrence Power’s West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival, which, owing to the pandemic, the violist has broadcast online this year. He says: ‘For all my dear colleagues, friends and any freelance person on this planet whose beautiful work continues to be silenced by this current ...
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VideoBeethoven ReCycled
In this video the violinist Yury Revich plays his experimental composition, the ’Beethoven ReCycled’ Sonata, in which he uses sketches and drafts by Beethoven which the composer never included in his final works. A recording of the cadenzas by Russian violinist Yury Revich is available at bit.ly/2E1I5ac. Revich plays ...
