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Itzhak Perlman: 'Have an agenda and be patient. You cannot practise impatiently. I would rather practise with my head for two hours than mindlessly for eight!'
Violinist Itzhak Perlman gives good, general advice for effective practice and for dealing with performance nerves.
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Violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Rohan De Silva perform Franz Ries’s Perpetuum Mobile, op.34 no.5 at a state dinner in 2007. In the audience are Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, alongside then US President George W. Bush. Read: Never practise for more than five hours per ...
Marking the violinist's 75th birthday, we republish this feature from our archive in which Perlman warns against the dangers of over-practising
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Oesi and pianist Andrea Vasi perform Bottesini’s Allegro Di Concerto ’Alla Mendelssohn,’ which was released as a single last week
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