All Video articles – Page 37
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VideoAmsterdam Sinfonietta performs in empty Concertgebouw
The first in the group’s ‘Empty Concertgebouw Sessions’ sees the members performing 1.5 metres from each other
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VideoPekka Kuusisto: Kreutzer 2 whole bow
Continuing his series of practise video tutorials, the Finnish violinist shares another bow exercise for Kreutzer’s second etude, one which involves travelling up the length of the bow.
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VideoLockdown commissions 1: Lawrence Power plays Huw Watkins’s ‘Power’ for solo viola
In the first of his ‘lockdown commissions’ performances, filmed in and on top of iconic empty venues, Lawrence Power plays Huw Watkins’s ‘Power’ for solo viola. Filmed by Jessie Rodger on the roof of St John’s, Smith Square. Stay tuned very soon for LC #2 - ‘Quartet for One’ by ...
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VideoMaxim Vengerov plays with his daughter Polina
The violinist plays a violin and cello duet with his youngest daughter Polina in aid of the Gift of Life, which supports children with cancer.
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VideoBach Double Concerto for New York City Health and Hospitals
In this video, the Camerata Notturna, an orchestra of healthcare professionals, perform the Vivace from Bach’s Double Violin Concerto, with violin soloists Cho-Liang Lin and David Chan. They are fundraising for NYC Health and Hospital: in their words ‘a critical resource for all New Yorkers, but especially for the under-resourced ...
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VideoMusicians in isolation: Alina Ibragimova
The Russian-British violinist describes what life has held for her since the lockdown started, from the little pleasures of being able to ‘buy milk for the fridge’, to the challenge of tackling all 24 Paganini Caprices.
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VideoMusicians from ‘TRIKESTRA’ perform in 360 degrees
The ensemble, made up of players from three Berlin orchestras, play Beethoven in a lockdown performance
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VideoViolinist Eleanor Corr plays both parts of Ligeti duet for ROSL at Home
The winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Strings Prize at this year’s Annual Music Competition performs both parts of Ligeti’s Joc from isolation
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VideoVirtual Benedetti Sessions: Grand Finale
Three weeks of music-making come to a culmination in this concert from Sunday 31 May, which showcases all the participants of the Virtual Benedetti Sessions. Programme 4:32 Warlock: Capriol Suite Movement 6, ‘Mattachins’ 12:51 Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, 4th movement 23:06 Paganini: Caprice No. 24 played by 12 masters of ...
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VideoLondon City Orchestra plays Mahler - from separate homes
This is the start of the third movement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, which the London-based orchestra was due to play at St John’s Waterloo on 4th April.
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VideoViviane Hagner plays Bach in an empty Konzerthaus Berlin
In compliance with social distancing regulations, the German violinist Viviane Hagner plays Bach’s Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor in the empty Great Hall of the Konzerthaus Berlin.
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VideoWorking from home: Thomas Gould gives a fundraising concert
As part of a fundraiser for The Felix Project, which is supplying food throughout the COVID-19 crisis to groups including the homeless and NHS staff, the British violinist Thomas Gould performed a programme live with repertoire including: Bach’s Toccata and Fugue for Organ (transcr for violin), Telemann’s Fantasia No. 1, ...
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VideoHauser - one half of 2Cellos - debuts New Music Video for His Rendition of Handel’s ‘Lascia Ch’io Pianga’
Hauser’s new music video - filmed inside Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts - for his version of George Frideric Handel’s ‘Lascia Ch’io Pianga’ from his debut solo album Classic. Of the track, Hauser says, ‘This is one of my favourite opera arias. Handel composed it for a tenor but ...
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VideoViolin and cello duo Arkai perform original composition ‘Aurora’
The work was written for The Peace Studio’s 2018 Peace First Summit as a reflection on gun violence
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VideoAnssi Karttunen: Diary Of My Confinement – La Fuga
In this video, made in accordance with social distancing rules, the Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen (recorded in Paris) improvises on the electric cello to a dance improvisation from the Buenos-Aires-born dancer Diana Theocharidis (filmed in Buenos Aires).
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Video12-year-old Christian Li plays Fisherman Harvest’s Song
In this video, the 12-year-old Australian-Chinese violinist Christian Li - the youngest ever winner of the Menuhin Competition - plays ‘Fisherman’s Harvest Song’, a traditional folk tune inspired by the fisherman’s harvest in the South China Sea and adapted by the contemporary Chinese composer Li Zili. Li says: ‘I ...
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VideoVienna Philharmonic musicians perform in empty Musikverein
Violinist Daniel Froschauer and bassist Michael Bladerer have dedicated their performance to the Vienna Philharmonic’s fans in Japan
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VideoSuntory Hall president and cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi performs at home
The Japanese musician has dedicated his performance to those on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic
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VideoNEC alumni present Elgar
In this video alumni from the New England Conservatory perform Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance March, Op. 39 No. 1 for the class of 2020 - all from their separate homes
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VideoSheku Kanneh-Mason on his signature dance move
In this zippy little interview, the 21-year-old cellist tells us what kind of child he was at school, and reveals his signature dance move.
