All Video articles – Page 43
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VideoBottesini bass mob in Crema, Italy
A flashmob of young double bassists film in the centre of Crema, Italy, filmed during the 2019 Bottesini Competition. Video by Lorenzo Taidelli
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VideoSpektral Quartet: George Crumb’s Black Angels
The Chicago based quartet performs Crumb’s most iconic work for strings, Black Angels (pt 1, ‘Departure’)
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VideoWith Nicky: Practice and Prepare Introduction
Nicola Benedetti offers tips on how to organise your time, how to stay concentrated and what to do with the time you have
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VideoThe Double Bass with Thomas Martin: Left Hand Ep 1, Position and Fingering Pt 1
In this series of episodes Thomas Martin takes a look at left hand technique, addressing a number of issues commonly experienced by players. This first episode covers the basics of positioning the left hand on the double bass in order to stop the string. Read: Dealing with Dystonia Read: ...
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VideoRichard O’Neill plays Rebecca Clarke viola sonata
In this video from Korean broadcaster MBC, Richard O’Neill and Jeremy Denk perform Rebecca Clarke’s Sonata for Viola and Piano Impetuoso Vivace 07:27 Adagio 11:30 Read: Takács Quartet to welcome Richard O’Neill as new violist in 2020
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VideoTrailer: documentary about the Artemis Quartet
The Neverending Quartet is a new documentary by Hester Overmars about the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet made in its 30th anniversary year. ‘Just before celebrating its 30 year anniversary, the Berlin based Artemis Quartet goes through one of its most turbulent years to date. When the last founding member, cellist Eckart ...
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VideoAnne-Sophie Mutter interviewed on Living the Classical Life
From Karajan collaborations to taking a sabbatical in 2021, via the recent mobile phone recording incident
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VideoVictor Julien-Laferrière: Dvořák’s Waldesruhe
Filmed on 1 August at the Charlottenborg Festsal during the Copenhagen Summer Festival
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VideoAlisa Weilerstein and Trondheim Soloists - 16 October 2019
‘When I sit in the orchestra and we do the Schoenberg together it feels like chamber music on a very large scale, and that’s the ideal thing’. So says Alisa Weilerstein of the Trondheim Soloists, with whom she will perform R Strauss’s Prelude for string sextet from Capriccio, Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir ...
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VideoEdicson Ruiz plays Berio’s Psy for solo double bass
Berlin Philharmonic bassist Edicson Ruiz performing Luciano Berio’s only piece for solo double bass, Psy
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VideoYo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O’Connor: 1B
‘1B’ by Edgar Meyer was the first track on the super trio’s second album, Appalachian Journey recorded in 1999
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VideoMusic funding: ‘There will not be another Sheku Kanneh Mason’
The lack of state school funding for creative arts is creating a ‘two-tier culture’, the mother of cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason has said.
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VideoComposer cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir on the halldorophone
Guðnadóttir has created a number of prominent film scores in recent years, including HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries and the new Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix
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VideoAnastasia Kobekina performs Debussy’s Beau Soir
From the Young Classicals YouTube channel comes this video of the Russian cellist performing this early Debussy masterpiece
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VideoAlisa Weilerstein on Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
The cellist plays the concerto in rehearsal with the Geneva Camerata and explains what this piece, in her words ‘arguably the greatest cello concerto that exists’, means to her.
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ArticleDavid Oistrakh performs Debussy's The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
On the great violinist's birthday today, we share this video of him performing a transcription of Debussy's La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) with pianist Frida Bauer in 1972, displaying his lauded warmth of tone. Read The Strad's guide to David Oistrakh, including ...
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VideoTrondheim Chamber Music Competition
In the semi-final of the Trondheim Chamber Music Competition, which concludes tonight, the Paris-based Trio Hélios played Brahms’s Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101 No. 3.
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VideoLeonidas Kavakos plays Beethoven at Tanglewood
Leonidas Kavakos joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as conductor and violinist this past August, for a programme including Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7. This video features an excerpt from his Beethoven performance.
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VideoHeifetz, Gershwin: It Ain't Necessarily So
Jascha Heifetz plays his own arrangement of Gershwin’s ’It Ain’t Necessarily So’ from Porgy and Bess
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VideoEugene Fodor performance and interview on Johnny Carson
First aired on 8 February 1990, this was Eugene Fodor’s comeback after a turbulent period in his life, including being arrested for cocaine and heroin possession and going to rehab. A few months earlier, the New York Times had basically announced the end of his career in a feature titled ...
