All Video articles – Page 95
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ArticleMaxim Vengerov performs Walton's Viola Concerto
Violinist Maxim Vengerov proves himself to be a highly skilled viola player, performing Walton's Viola Concerto.Read The Strad's article asking, Should all viola players practise the violin?Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleCellist Alisa Weilerstein performs Kodály's Solo Sonata
Alisa Weilerstein performs Kodály's Solo Cello Sonata at the White House in Washington D.C. in November 2009. The cellist has written a Practice Diary, in which she talks about the work, for The Strad's June 2015 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital ...
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ArticleViolinist Roman Kim performs his own arrangement of Bach's Air
Virtuosic violinist Roman Kim demonstrates some impressive left-hand pizzicato skills in his contrapuntal arrangement of Bach's Air on the G string for solo violin, published by Baerenreiter.Read The Strad's 7 pointers for perfect pizzicato and violinist Jennifer Pike's blog on pizzicato technique.Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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ArticleCarducci Quartet performs Shostakovich's String Quartet no.8
The Carducci Quartet performs the second movement of Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet. The British ensemble is taking on the complete Shostakovich cycle this year to mark four decades since the composer's death - read about their project in The Strad's June 2015 issue, out now.Subscribe to The Strad ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman's first encounter with Jascha Heifetz
Your Symphonie Espagnole is very nice, but I would like to hear some scales...' Violinist Itzhak Perlman remembers his first meeting with the great Jascha Heifetz when he played to him as a 14-year-old student at the Juilliard School in New York. Watch Jascha Heifetz put students ...
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ArticleDouble bassist Gary Karr performs 'Failing'
Double bassist Gary Karr gives an admirable performance of Johnson's 'Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass'. The work requires Karr to talk to his audience from a script, while performing increasingly complicated material - with the idea that at some point the musician will 'fail' ...
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ArticleCarpenter Trio perform on Stradivarius instruments
The Carpenter Trio - violist David Aaron Carpenter and violinists Sean Avram Carpenter and Lauren Sarah Carpenter - perform Astor Piazzolla's Oblivion on a 1715 Stradivarius viola, the 1727 'Vesuvio' Stradivarius violin and the 1714 'Joachim-Ma' Stradivarius violin. All three instruments are on display in the Museo del ...
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Article1,000 cellists perform in Japan
On 24 May 2015, 1,000 cellists came together in Sendai, Japan to support the victims of the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. This was the fifth Japanese mass cello event since 1998, when the first such concert took place in aid of the victims of the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake.See ...
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ArticleCuarteto Quiroga performs Brahms on decorated Stradivarius instruments
The musicians of the Quiroga Quartet perform the second movement of Brahms's Second String Quartet on a unique set of decorated Stradivarius instruments belonging to the Madrid Royal Palace.The musicians were named the Palace's first artists in residence in 2013, allowing them access to the Strads – the ...
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ArticleJi Young Lim performs Brahms's Violin Concerto
Ji Young Lim performs the first movement of Brahms's Violin Concerto in the finals of the 2014 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in which she came third.The violinist has just been named the winner of the 2015 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium, after performing the same work in ...
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ArticleViolinist Ray Chen performs Ysaÿe's Solo Sonata no.6
Violinist Ray Chen performs Ysaÿe's Solo Sonata no.6 at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium in 2009 - which he later won.Read about the 12 violin finalists who are competing at the 2015 Queen Elisabeth Competition this week.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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ArticleDavid Oistrakh performs Debussy's Violin Sonata
Violinist David Oistrakh performs Debussy's Violin Sonata with pianist Frida Bauer at the age of 64 in 1972 - just two years before his death in October 1974.
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ArticleStudent creates 3D-printed violin bow
Following hot on the heels of recent experiments by Monad Studios to create a 3D-printed violin and a 3D-printed cello, a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art in the US has created a 3D-printed violin bow. Austin Peppel is interested in recreating the sound of a ...
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ArticleCellist David Finckel on producing a wider vibrato
The wider your fingertips, the easier it is to produce a wide vibrato' Cellist David Finckel demonstrates how to produce a wider, richer vibrato. Watch Finckel's video demonstration on smooth bow changes and read his 10 habits of successful musicians. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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ArticleViolinist Nigel Kennedy performs Purple Haze
British violinist Nigel Kennedy performs his own arrangement of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.Read The Strad's interview with Kennedy on Bach, Hendrix and why he thinks music students should skip college.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase back ...
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ArticleSevere hailstorm and flash flooding damages Freiburg Conservatory of Music
A severe hailstorm in Freiburg, Germany has damaged the city's music school with repair costs estimated to be around €1m. German newspaper Badische Zeitung reported that large amounts of water came through the roof of the concert hall following a performance by the university's Baroque Orchestra last week. ...
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ArticleViktoria Mullova performs Bartók's Violin Concerto no.2
Viktoria Mullova performs Bartók's Violin Concerto no.2 with Daniel Harding conducting The Mahler Chamber Orchestra.Watch Mullova perform Bach's Chaconne.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn performs Bach aged 15
Hilary Hahn gives a mature performance of the Gigue from Bach's Solo Violin Partita no.2 as an encore to her German debut in March 1995 at the age of 15 with Lorin Maazel and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. NB Picture and video are slightly out of ...
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ArticleYo-Yo Ma performs Elgar's Cello Concerto
Yo-Yo Ma performs the first movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim in 1997. Read 9 opinions on performance and career by cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free ...
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ArticleViolin carries the weight of grand piano as substitute 'leg'
A violin is substituted for the leg of a grand piano and successfully holds its weight. Skip to 9:50 for the actual moment.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
