All Video articles – Page 34
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Video‘Impossible Orchestra’ brings together 29 star players from 14 countries
The project, initiated by Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, aims to raise money for worthwhile causes
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VideoHilary Hahn performs Bach’s Solo Violin Partita no.1 - Courante Double
Hilary Hahn performs the Courante Double (Presto) from Bach’s Solo Partita for Violin no.1 in B Minor, BWV1002. The video was recorded as part of the launch of Hahn’s Bach Solo Sonatas and Partia album, released on Decca in 2018, and reviewed by The Strad. Watch: Hilary Hahn plays ...
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VideoIda Haendel plays Bach’s Chaconne in 2002
In this video from 2002, Ida Haendel plays JS Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No.2 in D minor. Her dog was called Decca. Read: ‘She was a strong woman when there were comparatively few great women soloists’ – Tasmin Little on Ida Haendel Read: Ida Haendel: Grande dame of the violin ...
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VideoAnne-Sophie Mutter plays Hoe-down
Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Lambert Orkis play the Hoe-down from Copland’s Ballet ’Rodeo’ (1943). Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter on fine and contemporary instruments Read: Sentimental Work: Anne-Sophie Mutter on Penderecki’s Metamorphosen Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter has tested positive for coronavirus
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VideoLockdown conversation with Leon Bosch
Wigmore Hall presents a special documentary featuring double bassist Leon Bosch, whose early anti-apartheid activism saw him jailed as a teenager in South Africa. Read: Leon Bosch awarded honorary Fellowship of RNCM Watch: Leon Bosch: clear and resonant harmonics on the double bass
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VideoA comparison: Itzhak Perlman plays Mendelssohn in 1983 and 2011
In this video, which cuts between live performances filmed in 1983 and 2011, violinist Itzhak Perlman plays Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor with the New York Philharmonic under David Zinman (1983) and the San Francisco Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas (2011). Watch: Juilliard students ‘do’ Bolero with guests including ...
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VideoJanine Jansen performs Debussy’s Violin Sonata in G minor
Dutch violinist Janine Jansen and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet perform Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor at Carnegie Hall, New York. Watch: Janine Jansen rehearses Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Orchestre de Paris Watch: Violinist Janine Jansen performs Brahms aged 13
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VideoPatricia Kopatchinskaja plays Beethoven at Gstaad Menuhin Festival
The Moldovan-born violinist gave this recital with pianist Joonas Ahonen at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy on August 15th. The programme included Webern’s 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7; Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’; and John Cage’s Nocturne. Read: ...
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VideoTasmin Little plays Enescu
Tasmin Little plays Enescu’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 25 ‘in Romanian Folk Style’ (Arr. for Orchestra by Valentin Doni) with the Orchestre De Chambre Pelléas Enescu Festival, conducted by Benjamin Levy. Read about Little’s Sentimental Work in our September issue.
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VideoAn unusual piece for cello and organ by Saint-Saëns
Valentino Worlitzsch and Iveta Apkalna play Saint-Saëns’ ’Prière’
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VideoViolinist Nicola Benedetti performs Massenet’s Méditation from Thaïs
British violinist Nicola Benedetti performs Jules Massenet’s Méditation from Thaïs with pianist Alison Rhind. Benedetti is The Strad’s September 2020 cover star. In the issue she speaks about launching the Benedetti Sessions, her mass education project for string players of all ages, in the time of Covid-19. Read: The ...
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VideoLockdown commissions 3: Lawrence Power plays Esa-Pekka Salonen’s objets trouvés
In the third of his ten ‘lockdown commissions’ performances, filmed in and on top of iconic empty venues, violist Lawrence Power plays Esa-Pekka Salonen’s objets trouvés for solo viola and drone, filmed in an empty Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh.
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VideoVadim Repin plays Tchaikovsky’s Méditation
The Russian violinist plays Tchaikovsky’s Méditation in D minor from Souvenir d’un lieu cher (Memory of a Dear Place), Op. 42 (1878) with the Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra conducted by Yuri Bashmet. Read about Repin’s Sentimental Work in our August issue.
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VideoErich Gruenberg plays Bruch
In this short video from 1995, Erich Gruenberg, who has died aged 95, plays a section from the slow movement of Bruch’s Violin Concerto with the Bangkok Symphony conducted by John Georgiadis. Read: The violinist Erich Gruenberg has died
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VideoFrom My Room Orchestra: Philip Glass’s Company
Following their recording of Pachelbel’s Canon, From My Room Orchestra, an ensemble of Trinity Laban students, have turned their hand to Philip Glass’ quartet ‘Company’. This time they’re joined by contemporary music experts The Smith Quartet, and dancers from the conservatoire’s Faculty of Dance to create an artistic responses to ...
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VideoViktoria Mullova performs Bach Violin Concertos
Viktoria Mullova uses a Baroque bow to perform Bach’s Violin Concertos nos.1 in A minor and 2 in E major with Accademia Bizantina, directed from the harpsichord by Ottavio Dantone. Mullova recorded the works with the ensemble for Onyx in 2013. In The Strad’s August 2020 issue she speaks ...
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VideoAnne-Sophie Mutter plays Kreisler’s Caprice Viennois
The violinist plays Kreisler’s Caprcie Viennois, Op.2, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta.
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VideoA violin recital in a picture gallery
The violinist Darragh Morgan plays solo works by Oliver Knussen, Tansy Davies, Errollyn Wallen and other composers in Royal Holloway University’s Picture Gallery.
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VideoA Zoom experiment in quartet playing
Violinist Megan Shung improvises on the video conferencing platform
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VideoÉbène Quartet talks about life in lockdown and performing Beethoven
Ébène Quartet violinists Pierre Colombet and Gabriel Le Magadure speak from their separate homes about their Beethoven Around the World project, and the life of a quartet separated by lockdown. On the prospect of working together via Zoom, Colombet says: ’Chamber music is aptly named; it’s meant to be played ...
