All Video articles – Page 99
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ArticleSoundpainting: a method of structuring improvisation
Walter Thompson, the inventor of Soundpainting, demonstrates his method for structuring improvisation with the Walter Thompson Orchestra in France, September 2011. Read more about the live composition sign language in The Strad's February 2015 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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ArticleSydney Symphony Orchestra presents Visions of Vienna
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra's 'Greatest Hits from Vienna' concert, conducted by Ola Rudner, was captured at various angles by 14 cameras and projected live onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House on 4 February 2015. The performance was enjoyed not only by live audiences in Sydney, ...
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ArticleGlenn Donnellan plays his electric baseball bat violin
National Symphony Orchestra violinist Glenn Donnellan plays the American national anthem at a Washington Nationals game on his 'Electric Slugger', an electric violin he made himself from a Louisville Slugger baseball bat. Skip to 1.30mins for the beginning of his performance.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital ...
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ArticleCellists Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber perform Piazzolla
Julian Lloyd Webber and his wife Jiaxin play The Little Beggar Boy by Piazzolla with pianist Pam Chowhan in 2013.The performance feature's Lloyd Webber's 'Barjansky' Stradivarius cello, which the artist is now to sell following his retirement from performing.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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ArticleViolincopter: how to make a violin soar
One of the web's more bizarre videos... What do you get if you combine a violin with a helicopter? A violincopter of course! Watch Alejo Pesce's instrument fly...Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click ...
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ArticleViolinist Jascha Heifetz performs Mozart aged eleven
Legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz performs Mozart's Gavotte in G from Idomeneo, transcribed by Leopold Auer, aged just eleven. The performance was recorded on wax cylinder in 1912. Read The Strad's first mention of the young Heifetz, published in October 1912. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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ArticleJascha Heifetz performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz makes short work of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto first movement. 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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ArticleBBC documentary investigates the life and work of Stradivarius - part 2
Clemency Burton-Hill investigates the life and work of Antonio Stradivari in a BBC documentary from 2013, including close-up analysis of his ‘Serdet’, ‘Viotti’ and ‘Messiah’ violins. Violinist Jennifer Pike also takes part. Watch part one of the programme.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
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ArticleBBC documentary investigates the life and work of Stradivarius - part 1
Clemency Burton-Hill investigates the life and work of Antonio Stradivari in a BBC documentary from 2013, including close-up analysis of his 'Serdet', 'Viotti' and 'Messiah' violins. Violinist Jennifer Pike also takes part. Part two of the programme features The Strad magazine.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital ...
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ArticleAnne Akiko Meyers talks about her violins
You're installing your personality into this piece of wood, which is still very much alive'Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers talks about her Stradivarius and Guarneri del Gesù instruments as part of a CBS news report on violin making.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of ...
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ArticleViolinist David Garrett performs the Devil's Trill Sonata
Violinist David Garrett performs Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata. Read Giuseppe Tartini's violin playing advice. Read French violinist-conductor Jean-Jacques Kantorow’s thoughts on the Devil’s Trill in The Strad’s February 2015 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free ...
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ArticleViolinist Philippe Graffin performs Prokofiev's Five Melodies
The Strad's February 2015 cover star, violinist Philippe Graffin, performs Prokofiev's Five Melodies op.35 with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Valentin Doni.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 Stéphane Grappelli performs 'It Had To Be You'
Legendary jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli performs 'It had To Be You' with guitarists Martin Taylor and Louis Stewart, and double bassist Jack Sewing in The Grand Opera House, Belfast in April 1986.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To ...
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ArticlePoland's first musical flashmob? Sinfonietta Cracovia performs
Polish chamber ensemble Sinfonietta Cracovia performed 'probably the first musical shopping-mall flash mob in Poland's history' on 29 November 2014. The group, conducted by Jurek DybaŠ‚, played Krakowiak in 20 bars by Polish composer Krzesimir DÄ™bski.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a ...
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ArticleViolinist Zakhar Bron gives Beethoven masterclass
Most important is that you play with strong expressive character'Violin professor Zakhar Bron gives a masterclass on Beethoven's Romance op.50 in F major. Read more about Bron's teaching philosophies in The Strad's January 2015 issue, out now.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of ...
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ArticleViolinist Ida Haendel gives Royal College of Music masterclass
You need to be more present; you don't want the audience to forget you are here!' Violinist Ida Haendel gives a masterclass for four students at London's Royal College of Music, covering Ravel's Tzigane, Brahms's Violin Concerto, and Enescu's Third Violin Sonata. Read Haendel's views on Brahms's ...
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ArticleFinalists perform Mozart at the Singapore International Violin Competition
The three Grand Finalists of the Singapore International Violin Competition have now been announced: Sirena Huang, USA; Richad Lin, Taiwan; and Yu-Chien Tseng, Taiwan.The three will perform Romantic concertos with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Verbitsky on 21 January and compete for a top prize of ...
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Renaud Capuçon performs Dutilleux at the Philharmonie de Paris
Violinist Renaud Capuçon plays Henri Dutilleux's 2002 work Sur le même accord (On only one chord) on 15 January at the opening gala concert of the Philharmonie de Paris, the French capital's long-awaited new concert hall. The 38-year-old was performing with the Orchestre de Paris under Paavo Järvi. The new ...
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ArticleAlexandra Conunova performs at Singapore International Violin Competition
Alexandra Conunova performs Beethoven's Violin Sonata no.8, Poulenc's Violin Sonata, Koh's kilo and Wieniawski's Faust Fantasy at the Singapore International Violin Competition 2015 Semi-Finals.For further videos of the contestants visit the competition's YouTube page.For full details of all the Semi-Finalists visit the Singapore Violin Competition website.
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ArticleViolinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs Stravinsky encore
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs her own cadenza improvisation for Stravinsky's Violin Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, featuring violinist Alejandro Rutkauskas.Kopatchinskaja has written a Practice Diary in The Strad's January 2015 issue, out now.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day ...
