All Video articles – Page 51
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VideoA new violin concerto from Danny Elfman
Film composer Danny Elfman, best known for the Simpson’s theme tune and his scores for Tim Burton’s Batman and more recently the Sam Raimi Spider-Man series, has just released his first violin concerto, ‘Eleven Eleven’. The soloist is Sandy Cameron. Listen/buy the album here.
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VideoYo-Yo Ma rehearses for US Premiere with pipa player Wu Man
In this video, filmed last week, Yo-Yo Ma and pipa player Wu Man rehearse for the US Premiere of Zhao Lin’s ‘A Happy Excursion’, Concerto for Pipa and Cello with the New York Philharmonic.
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VideoBarber's Adagio in original version from op.11 Quartet
In this video, the Banff Competition winning Dover Quartet performs the Adagio from Samuel Barber’s String Quartet in B Minor, op.11 – a piece which has gone on to achieve huge popularity in its string orchestra arrangement as the Adagio for Strings.
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VideoAndrei Ioniță – Oblique Strategies – album trailer
Cellist Andrei Ioniță introduces his upcoming album ‘Oblique Strategies’, released on 15 March by Orchid Classics. Film by J.Blanch Productions
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VideoNicola Benedetti receives CBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace
Violinist @NickyBenedetti has been awarded a CBE for Services to Music, which she collected this morning at Buckingham Palace. pic.twitter.com/v8Fxijq9Ki — STV News (@STVNews) March 7, 2019 The Scottish violinist was made CBE in 2019 New Year Honours list and was today officially bestowed the honour ...
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VideoEllinor D’Melon plays Kreisler Cadenza from the Brahms Violin Concerto
Ellinor D’Melon plays the Kreisler Cadenza from the Brahms Violin Concerto, during a performance with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jan Latham-Koenig.
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VideoMaking fine violins out of fungus-treated wood
In this video we hear from the researcher Francis Schwarze, who, together with a Swiss violin maker has treated wood used for instrument making with Physisporinus vitreus, a white-rot fungus that attacks and destroys certain structures in spruce, in order to build violins that sound as fine as antique masterpieces.
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VideoJanine Jansen at St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck
That violin scroll behind the column belongs to Janine Jansen, portrait artist of this year’s Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, captured here testing out the generous acoustics at St Anne’s, Lübeck with a bit of Brahms (part of the festival’s promotional material).
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VideoAnne-Sophie Mutter with André Previn: 'Song' from Tango, Song and Dance
Tango Song and Dance for violin and piano, which Previn described as ‘lighthearted virtuoso pieces’, were written for Mutter in 1997 and recorded twice by the pair for Deutsche Grammophon releases in 2002 and 2006.
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VideoLeia Zhu plays Carmen Fantasie
Twelve-year-old violinist Leia Zhu performs Franz Waxman’s Carmen Fantasie at the Strauss Municipal Conservatory in Akko, Israel on 15 January 2019. Conductor: Barak Tal Orchestra: Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble
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VideoTomás Cotik performs Bach Largo in 'massive media' work
As part of the Portland Winter Light Festival 2019, the facade of the PSU library becomes a canvas for the projected silhouette of violinist Tomás Cotik. Cotik explains: ‘Ombra’ Musici, (english translation: Musician’s Shadow), is an interdisciplinary work of “massive media.” “Massive media” takes a media form, such as film, ...
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NewsUnited Strings of Europe performing new work by Arturo Corrales
The United Strings of Europe, an ensemble made up of young professional musicians from across the continent, launch their New Horizons series tonight in London’s Conway Hall. The ensemble, which has just completed a tour of Lebanon, and is today leading a workshop with refugees and asylum seekers at Amnesty ...
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Video‘With Nicky’ 5: Equipment
This week on her video journey, Nicola Benedetti is talking all things equipment: strings, shoulder rests, chin rests, her bow, her beautiful pegs and the violin itself. She also gives us a glimpse inside her violin case. She says, ‘Equipment is something that I have certainly obsessed over a lot ...
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VideoHilary Hahn plays Bach in 1997
In this video from 1997 (first 21 minutes), the 17-year-old violinist performs Bach and gives an interview in which, amongst other things, she admits to knowing about 27 concertos off by heart.
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VideoViolinist Philippe Quint on the music of Charlie Chaplin
A trailer for Philippe Quint’s new album of arrangements of music by Charlie Chaplin. In the sleeve notes, Quint writes: Growing up in the former Soviet Union in early 1980s during its Communist era, meant that there was little access to art and artists from the West. We were occasionally ...
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Video12-year-old SoHyun Ko plays Paganini: Caprice no.1
From the HeifetzPEG (Program for the Exceptionally Gifted) comes this video of 12-year old South Korean student SoHyun Ko playing the first Caprice by Niccolò Paganini. It was filmed on 26 July 2018 at a HeifetzPEG Showcase Concert at Mary Baldwin University’s Francis Auditorium in Staunton, Virginia.
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ArticleCellist Yo-Yo Ma, two honkers and a dinger on Sesame Street
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, performs 'Beethoven for cello, two honkers and a dinger' on a classic episode of Sesame Street. Read: 9 opinions on performance and career by cellist Yo-Yo Ma
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VideoA nosebleed won’t stop plucky prodigy Christian Li
Eleven-year-old Australian violinist Christian Li is captured in this video coming to the dramatic end of Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso while suffering a nosebleed. The performance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in a free outdoor concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl was conducted by Benjamin Northey, who ...
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VideoIn the workshop with luthier Noémie Viaud
Violin maker Noémie Viaud in her workshop in Denmark, filmed by Nikolaj Lund. Viaud is featured in the Strad’s February 2019 ‘My Space’ column, discussing her workshop and career to date: ‘I’ve been based in Denmark for the past twelve years. I’m originally from France and learnt violin making at ...
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Video‘With Nicky’ 4: Vibrato Part II
Following on from last week’s episode in her series of video tutorials, Nicola Benedetti is on to Vibrato Part 2, in which she progresses from easier to slightly harder vibrato exercises. She focuses on how to put some of last week’s exercises into practice with one of the most popular ...
