If you’re still smarting about Joshua Bell’s decision to change his program from Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto to the Brahms, then you can take solace in this amazing performance by Hillary Hahn with Mariss Jansons and the Berlin Philharmonic from Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan. To see the whole concert you’ll need to be a
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In case you’re on the fence about this week’s concerts (and why should you be – isn’t the Mozart Jupiter symphony and Strauss’ Don Juan enough of a reason to make it?), here are YouTube videos of the Britten Piano Concerto that is also on the program. The British pianist Stephen Osborne will be the soloist
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I hate snarkyness. But sometimes, it is just too fun not to wade into the cesspool and get your hip waders fully immersed. Observe, gentle reader, the following video: It’s a video from the 1998 Jerusalem Music Center’s quartet masterclass with violinist Isaac Stern and friends. The quartet that is performing is the very young
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httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM9ZRLXZBR8&hd=1 Discovered via @Oregon_Symphony on Twitter.
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I’ve been scouring YouTube for any new (and impressive) viola videos, and there are quite a few that I hadn’t seen before. If you are still of the notion that the viola is a second-string (sorry) instrument, then you are sadly misinformed! Enjoy.
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There are some clever people in this world. Do you remember the “Yo-Yo Shreds at the Inauguration” vid that popped up on YouTube? Then there was the “Perlman Shreds Winter”: Now, there is the “Berliner Philharmoniker Masterclass”: I was in tears for the last one – it’s a great job of dubbing over what the
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A portion of the last movement of Mahler’s First Symphony with Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic.
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Here’s a video that’s been going around the blogosphere lately – it’s piano rockstar Lang Lang playing Flight of the Bumblebee as an encore after an appearance with the San Francisco Symphony. The catch? He’s doing it on an iPad app, AND with the Steinway (at least towards the end). Pretty cool, but I think
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Here’s a movement of Beethoven’s not-so-well-known String Quintet in C major, op. 29 -
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We have Principal timpani auditions coming up at the Oregon Symphony, and thanks to Sam Bergman over at the Minnesota Orchestra’s Inside the Classics, here is a YouTube gem:
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I was thrilled to discover this vintage documentary of the four DePasquale brothers, all of whom played in the Philadelphia Orchestra – at the same time! I studied with Joseph, the violist, who was principal violist of the Boston Symphony under Koussevitsky, and then was hired by Eugene Ormandy, later being joined by his brothers
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This is quite possibly the best Rube Goldberg machine I’ve ever seen (including the famous Honda commercial from a few years back). Enjoy!
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I’ve been catching up with performances by the Berlin Philharmonic via my web subscription lately, and here’s one of their free preview clips from their performance of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique – and it’s fantastic, indeed! (You’ll note that, like our recent performance, they use the coronet part in the “Ball” movement). Enjoy!
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A suite of three instrumental sections from Thomas Adés’ opera Powder Her Face will be amongst the works performed this coming weekend on the Oregon Symphony’s next classical series of concerts. Here’s a clip of the Overture, as performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra and Christoph von Dohnanyi. Enjoy!
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Violist Sam Bergman, of the Minnesota Orchestra (and fellow BBB – Bratsche Blogging Brother) made this arrangement of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man for a Minnesota Orchestra function. I kind of like it – it might be something we should do here in Oregon…
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