Violin€“viola dream team performs the Handel€“Halvorsen Passacaglia
Continuing our viola exploration, here is Pinchas Zukerman performing with Itzhak Perlman. The finest violinist–violist ever?
As he says at the start of the film: 'A violin is easy to play, but a viola is something special. What's a violin? Its nothing!'
Compare it to performances of the same work by two other great pairings: Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose, and Lionel Tertis and Albert Sammons.
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Dennis Rooney attends a live performance at the Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, on 24 January 2021
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Violinist Pinchas Zukerman showcases his rich and velvety sound in Tchaikovsky’s Sérénade mélancolique, op.26 in B-flat minor with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. Read: ‘He could hear and see talent, and he loved it’ - Pinchas Zukerman remembers Isaac Stern Read: ‘Bach should be played with ...
The film follows the ground-breaking career of bassist Orin O’Brien, who joined the orchestra in 1966
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Bernsted performs a solo work that she describes as having ‘complexity like a kaleidoscope’
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