Lisa Batiashvili, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sakari Oramo
Lisa Batiashvili on the challenges of the Sibelius Violin Concerto
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Ilya Kaler
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Leonidas Kavakos
Verbier Festival Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
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David Oistrakh
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
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Shlomo Mintz
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Gil Shaham
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Sarah Chang
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Ginette Neveu (recording)
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Hilary Hahn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXYXUd_N2YI&feature=related
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Vadim Repin
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Christian Ferras, Conductor: Zubin Mehta
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Benjamin Beilman's moving and competition winning performance during the final round of the "Montreal International Musical Competition".
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Tossy Spivakovsky (recording)
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Ruggiero Ricci (recording)
Oivin Fjelstad conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
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Saint Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Leila Josefowicz
(recording)
Proms 2003
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Itzhak Perlman (recording)
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Isaac Stern
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Janine Jansen
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Jascha Heifetz (movie footage)
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Shlomo Mintz
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Andrey Rozendent (student)
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Stephanie Jeong
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(recording)
Proms 2003
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Itzhak Perlman (recording)
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Isaac Stern
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Janine Jansen
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Jascha Heifetz (movie footage)
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Shlomo Mintz
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Andrey Rozendent (student)
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Stephanie Jeong
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Tschaikovsky Violin Concerto
Jascha Heifetz
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
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David Oistrakh
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Itzhak Perlman
Israel Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta
violin by Perlman, conducted by Ormandy
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Antal Szalai
Belgian National Orchestra, Gilbert Varga
Brussels, May 2005
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Maxim Vengerov
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Nathan Milstein
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Walter Hendl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbI2O00BnUQ&feature=channel
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Henryk Szeryng
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
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Janine Jansen
Janine Jansen Notes Of A Recording (Tchaikovsky) Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uQ_9yl5IiI&feature=fvw
with NHK Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart
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Michael Rabin
Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, Donald Voorhees
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Ruggiero Ricci
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Leonid Kogan (recording)
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Vadim Repin, Orchestre national de Lyon, Emmanuel Krivine
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Ivry Gitlis
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Leila Bronia Josefowicz (recording), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-H6ScFfEs
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Pinchas Zukerman (recording), 1969 debut with London Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Antal Dorati (1906-1988)
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Leonidas Kavakos
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Baiba Skride
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Vasa Prihoda (recording)
Sinfonie-Orchester des Nordwestdeutschen
Rundfungs con. Richard Austin, 1949
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Alfredo Campoli (recording)
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Ilya Kaler (3rd movement)
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Fumiaki Miura
Hannover International Violin Competition 2009, First Prize
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Conductor: Fritz Reiner
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David Oistrakh
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Itzhak Perlman
Israel Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta
violin by Perlman, conducted by Ormandy
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Antal Szalai
Belgian National Orchestra, Gilbert Varga
Brussels, May 2005
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Maxim Vengerov
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Nathan Milstein
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Walter Hendl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbI2O00BnUQ&feature=channel
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Henryk Szeryng
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
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Janine Jansen
Janine Jansen Notes Of A Recording (Tchaikovsky) Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uQ_9yl5IiI&feature=fvw
with NHK Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart
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Michael Rabin
Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, Donald Voorhees
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Ruggiero Ricci
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Leonid Kogan (recording)
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Vadim Repin, Orchestre national de Lyon, Emmanuel Krivine
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Ivry Gitlis
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Leila Bronia Josefowicz (recording), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-H6ScFfEs
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Pinchas Zukerman (recording), 1969 debut with London Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Antal Dorati (1906-1988)
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Leonidas Kavakos
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Baiba Skride
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Vasa Prihoda (recording)
Sinfonie-Orchester des Nordwestdeutschen
Rundfungs con. Richard Austin, 1949
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Alfredo Campoli (recording)
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Ilya Kaler (3rd movement)
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Fumiaki Miura
Hannover International Violin Competition 2009, First Prize
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Brahms Violin Concerto
Oscar Shumsky with the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyeJJq7JDws&feature=related
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Itzhak Perlman, Berlin Philharmoniker
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Henryk Szeryng
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David Oistrakh (3rd movt)
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Isaac Stern (1985)
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Rachel Barton Pine, Israel Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Gil Shohat in Tel Aviv, October 18, 2007 (3rd movt)
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Hilary Hahn (recording), Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields under Neville Mariner
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Vadim Repin (3rd movt)
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Danielle Belen Nesmith
The Colburn School, Los Angeles, CA
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Julia Fischer, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas (Cadenza)
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Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Brahms: Violin Concerto
(Gil Shaham}
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Mariss Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Julian Rachlin
Japan Tour 2008
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Ricardo Odnoposoff (recording)
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Gidon Kremer, L. Bernstein & Wiener Phil. O. (2nd movt)
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Lisa Batiashvili
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyeJJq7JDws&feature=related
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Itzhak Perlman, Berlin Philharmoniker
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Henryk Szeryng
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David Oistrakh (3rd movt)
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Isaac Stern (1985)
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Rachel Barton Pine, Israel Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Gil Shohat in Tel Aviv, October 18, 2007 (3rd movt)
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Hilary Hahn (recording), Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields under Neville Mariner
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Vadim Repin (3rd movt)
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Danielle Belen Nesmith
The Colburn School, Los Angeles, CA
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Julia Fischer, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas (Cadenza)
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Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Brahms: Violin Concerto
(Gil Shaham}
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Mariss Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Julian Rachlin
Japan Tour 2008
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Ricardo Odnoposoff (recording)
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Gidon Kremer, L. Bernstein & Wiener Phil. O. (2nd movt)
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Lisa Batiashvili
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Sarasates Zigeunerweisen
Isaac Stern playing Zigueunerweisen
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Itzhak Perlman plays Sarasate / Zigeunerweisen (recording)
There's a video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEmbFSiJzEQ&feature=related
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Sarasate Plays Sarasate Zigeunerweisen (Is this real? Recording, of course)
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Michael Rabin plays Zigeunerweisen op. 20 (recording)
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Joshua Bell - Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen (recording)
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Zino Francescatti, 1959
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Rachel Barton Pine
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IDA HAENDEL PABLO de SARASATE GYPSY AIRS Zigeunerweisen Israel 2006
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Gerhard Taschner, 1944 (recording)
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Kogan (recording)
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Vadim Repin
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Geza Hosszu Legocky and The Sinti-Roma Chamber Orchestra
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Itzhak Perlman plays Sarasate / Zigeunerweisen (recording)
There's a video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEmbFSiJzEQ&feature=related
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Sarasate Plays Sarasate Zigeunerweisen (Is this real? Recording, of course)
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Michael Rabin plays Zigeunerweisen op. 20 (recording)
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Joshua Bell - Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen (recording)
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Zino Francescatti, 1959
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Rachel Barton Pine
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IDA HAENDEL PABLO de SARASATE GYPSY AIRS Zigeunerweisen Israel 2006
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Gerhard Taschner, 1944 (recording)
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Kogan (recording)
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Vadim Repin
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Geza Hosszu Legocky and The Sinti-Roma Chamber Orchestra
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Beethoven Violin Concerto
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
Itzhak Perlman discusses and plays...
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Joshua Bell, violin
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Suntory Hall, Tokyo, June 7, 2005
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David Oistrakh
London Symphony, Sir Adrian Boult
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Anne-Sophie Mutter
Berliner Philharmoniker, Seiji Ozawa
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Henryk Szeryng
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Arthur Grumiaux
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Shlomo Mintz plays Beethoven Violin Concerto (Argentina 2008)
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Frank Peter Zimmermann & Holst Stein/NHKSO 1995(1/2)
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Josef Suk (recording)
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Augustin Hadelich - Beethoven Concerto first movement cadenza and ending
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim
Itzhak Perlman discusses and plays...
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Joshua Bell, violin
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Suntory Hall, Tokyo, June 7, 2005
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David Oistrakh
London Symphony, Sir Adrian Boult
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Anne-Sophie Mutter
Berliner Philharmoniker, Seiji Ozawa
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Henryk Szeryng
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Arthur Grumiaux
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Shlomo Mintz plays Beethoven Violin Concerto (Argentina 2008)
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Frank Peter Zimmermann & Holst Stein/NHKSO 1995(1/2)
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Josef Suk (recording)
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Augustin Hadelich - Beethoven Concerto first movement cadenza and ending
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Mendelsson Violin Concerto
Anne-Sophie Mutter
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Itzhak Perlman (child), 3rd movement
Itzhak Perlman, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, David Zinman
(2nd movement)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fyTy54d498
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Sarah Chang
New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur
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Janine Jansen
BBC Symphonic Orchestra, 2005
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Anne-Sophie Mutter
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Isaac Stern, 1972
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Ivry Gitlis (recording)
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Zino Francescatti (recording)
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Christian Ferras
Orchestre de Radio-Canada, Alexander Brott
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Jascha Heifetz (recording)
Boston Symphonic Orchestra
also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw7EGTjrYSs&feature=related
From a movie, 3rd movement starts at 01:30
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Shlomo Mintz
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
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Maxim Vengerov
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Michael Rabin (recording)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
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Hilary Hahn with Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Fritz Kreisler (recording)
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Midori Goto (recording), Live at the Philharmonie,Berlin,Gemany Jan 11-13 2003, Conductor:Mariss Jansons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWxSJJ2vtcA
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Anne Akiko Meyers, Hiroshima Symphony, conductor: Akiyama
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Victor Pikaisen (recording)
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Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
(Frank Michael Erben)
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Nathan Milstein, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Walter Hendl
(embedded disabled)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRsqfy1PcsE&feature=related
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Leila Josefowicz (recording)
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Kevin Zhu (7 years old)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO_aRIXXXpE&feature=channel&list=UL -------------------------------
Julia Fischer with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
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Itzhak Perlman (child), 3rd movement
Itzhak Perlman, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, David Zinman
(2nd movement)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fyTy54d498
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Sarah Chang
New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur
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Janine Jansen
BBC Symphonic Orchestra, 2005
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Anne-Sophie Mutter
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Isaac Stern, 1972
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Ivry Gitlis (recording)
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Zino Francescatti (recording)
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Christian Ferras
Orchestre de Radio-Canada, Alexander Brott
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Jascha Heifetz (recording)
Boston Symphonic Orchestra
also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw7EGTjrYSs&feature=related
From a movie, 3rd movement starts at 01:30
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Shlomo Mintz
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
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Maxim Vengerov
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Michael Rabin (recording)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
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Hilary Hahn with Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Fritz Kreisler (recording)
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Midori Goto (recording), Live at the Philharmonie,Berlin,Gemany Jan 11-13 2003, Conductor:Mariss Jansons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWxSJJ2vtcA
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Anne Akiko Meyers, Hiroshima Symphony, conductor: Akiyama
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Victor Pikaisen (recording)
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Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music - Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
(Frank Michael Erben)
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Nathan Milstein, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Walter Hendl
(embedded disabled)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRsqfy1PcsE&feature=related
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Leila Josefowicz (recording)
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Kevin Zhu (7 years old)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO_aRIXXXpE&feature=channel&list=UL -------------------------------
Julia Fischer with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
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Paganini Caprice
Paganini's Daemon : A Most Enduring Legend (part 1)
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Jascha Heifetz:
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Alexander Markov:
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Shlomo Mintz:
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Hilary Hahn:
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Itzhak Perlman (recording)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRV6S6Os3zI
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Leonid Kogan (recording):
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Tianwa Yeung:
Also, Paganini Caprice 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 performed by Yang Tian Wa (杨天娲):
http://www.youtube.com/user/ninikant#g/u
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Salvatore Accardo (recording):
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Andrey Rozendent:
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Frank Peter Zimmermann:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIaQPenPDe8&feature=related
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Ruggierro Ricci (recording):
Caprice no. 24 starts at 4:35
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Mayuko Kamio
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Vanessa Mae
(Don't take this too seriously)
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Hu Shenghua
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Sándor Lakatos
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Ilya Kaler (recording)
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Julia Fischer
Interview
Play
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The Paganini Project with Peter Sheppard Skærved
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David Garrett (Niccolo Paganini) Caprice 24 [The Devil's Violinist]
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Augustin Hadelich - PAGANINI 24
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Jascha Heifetz:
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Alexander Markov:
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Shlomo Mintz:
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Hilary Hahn:
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Itzhak Perlman (recording)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRV6S6Os3zI
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Leonid Kogan (recording):
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Tianwa Yeung:
Also, Paganini Caprice 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 performed by Yang Tian Wa (杨天娲):
http://www.youtube.com/user/ninikant#g/u
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Salvatore Accardo (recording):
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Andrey Rozendent:
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Frank Peter Zimmermann:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIaQPenPDe8&feature=related
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Ruggierro Ricci (recording):
Caprice no. 24 starts at 4:35
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Mayuko Kamio
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Vanessa Mae
(Don't take this too seriously)
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Hu Shenghua
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Sándor Lakatos
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Ilya Kaler (recording)
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Julia Fischer
Interview
Play
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The Paganini Project with Peter Sheppard Skærved
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David Garrett (Niccolo Paganini) Caprice 24 [The Devil's Violinist]
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Augustin Hadelich - PAGANINI 24
Chopin Nocturne in C# minor
Midori Goto:
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Itzhak Perlman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4JPHah7V5M&feature=related
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Joshua Bell:
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Sarah Chang (recording):
Kid (playing starts at 01:03):
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Aaron Rosan:
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Anna Tifu:
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Augustin Hadelich:
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Nathan Milstein (recording), amazing:
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Ginette Neveu (recording):
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Michael Rabin (recording)
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Stefan Jackiw
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Ruggiero Ricci (recording)
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Itzhak Perlman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4JPHah7V5M&feature=related
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Joshua Bell:
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Sarah Chang (recording):
Kid (playing starts at 01:03):
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Aaron Rosan:
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Anna Tifu:
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Augustin Hadelich:
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Nathan Milstein (recording), amazing:
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Ginette Neveu (recording):
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Michael Rabin (recording)
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Stefan Jackiw
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Ruggiero Ricci (recording)
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Bach Sonata No. 1 Siciliana
Ilya Kaler:
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Henryk Szeryng (recording):
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Sigiswald Kuijken (recording):
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Lisanne Soeterbroek (Netherlands)
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Kristóf Baráti
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Franco Gulli (recording)
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William Hagen
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Adolf Busch (recording)
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Henryk Szeryng (recording):
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Sigiswald Kuijken (recording):
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Lisanne Soeterbroek (Netherlands)
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Kristóf Baráti
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Franco Gulli (recording)
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William Hagen
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Adolf Busch (recording)
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Bach Partita No. 3 Gavotte en rondeau
Arthur Grumiaux (recording)
Grumiaux's recordings of the "Gavotte en rondeaux" is included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft, as a sample of the culture of Earth.
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Gil Shaham:
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Hilary Hahn (recording):
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Itzhak Perlman (around 13 years old):
Starts at 06:52:
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Gidon Kremer:
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Ilya Kaler:
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Ivry Gitlis:
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Daishin Kashimoto:
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Zino Francescatti (recording)
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Ray Chen ---------------------------------------------------
Grumiaux's recordings of the "Gavotte en rondeaux" is included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft, as a sample of the culture of Earth.
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Gil Shaham:
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Hilary Hahn (recording):
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Itzhak Perlman (around 13 years old):
Starts at 06:52:
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Gidon Kremer:
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Ilya Kaler:
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Ivry Gitlis:
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Daishin Kashimoto:
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Zino Francescatti (recording)
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Ray Chen ---------------------------------------------------
Bach Partita No. 1 Sarabande
Nathan Milstein (recording):
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Arthur Grumiaux (recording):
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Henryk Szeryng (recording):
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Isaac Stern (recording):
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Gidon Kremer:
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Eric Silberger:
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Ilya Kaler records Bach for Naxos 2008 (starts at 3:00)
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Gidon Kremer (recording), Sarabande - Double
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Arthur Grumiaux (recording):
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Henryk Szeryng (recording):
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Isaac Stern (recording):
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Gidon Kremer:
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Eric Silberger:
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Ilya Kaler records Bach for Naxos 2008 (starts at 3:00)
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Gidon Kremer (recording), Sarabande - Double
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Learning Violin - Classical
Todd Ehle (ProfessorV) has a series of excellent videos on youtube. Here's one on introduction to 3rds:
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Nathan Milstein
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Pinkas Zukerman - Here To Make Music (Pt 1)
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Isaac Stern, From Mao to Mozart (DVD):
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The Art of The Violin, another excellent DVD:
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Alexander Markov On Violin Practice:
Alexander Markov On Vibrato Techniques
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Itzhak Perlman on how to do staccato (Lin Cho Liang):
Itzhak Perlman on Why Singing is Important
Itzhak On Practicing
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James Ehnes, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto demo:
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Prof. Hrachya Harutyunian with Hrachya Avanesyan:
Online Lesson: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, 1st mov.
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Violin Basics by Al Leong
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Kreutzer No. 36 (Mandarin)
http://www.tudou.com/v/xB6DMxla3bY
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林耀基小提琴入门教程 （Kayser 36 Etudes)
http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_3026778.html
林耀基讲解克莱采尔第1课 (Kreutzer 42 Studies)
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ4NzgwNTQ4.html
林耀基, 楊天媧:
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Yehudi Menuhin 6 Violin Lessons
http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_1827123.html
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学琴之路第一册 (赵薇）
http://v.youku.com/v_playlist/f2673086o1p0.html
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How to Hold the Violin
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Sautille bowing
Kayser No. 19 is an excellent etude to learn Sautille bowing.
Demo of Spiccato (sautille) 跳弓示範 using Kayser No.19
From ProfessorV:
Violin Lesson #49; Sautille Bowing pt. 1
Violin Lesson #50; Sautille' Bowing Pt. 2
Violin Lesson; Sautille Pt. 4 (Mendelssohn demonstration)
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Masterclass in Violin Artistry
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Scott Laird (D'Addario ad)
Bow Hold
Long Tones (drawing a long straight bow)
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郑锦龙小提琴教学法视频 - 24岁时对帕格尼尼演奏的探讨之3 - 三度练习方法
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTMyOTMwMzky.html
实用弓法
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQxNzg5Nzg4.html
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Sassmannshaus on Practice, How and Why
Sassmannshaus Q&A - Teaching Violin Vibrato
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Leonidas Kavakos on playing the violin
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Itzhak Perlman discusses and demonstrates from Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
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Dounis "Violin Players' Daily Dozen"
"It is a well known fact that after the violin is taken out of the case for the first time every day, the first two hours or more are wasted in REGAINING THAT FEELING OF EASE, FLUENCY AND SURETY WHICH THE VIOLINIST EXPERIENCES AT THE END OF HIS DAILY PRACTICE. How much time could be saved, how much energy could be spared, and how much more profitable would the daily practice be if that feeling of ease, fluency and surety can be had AT THE BEGINNING of the day's work instead of at the end, by practicing specific exercises for a few minutes composed according to scientific rules based on psycho-physiological laws. The scales, the etudes and the compositions to be learned would not present any more "ugly or rough" spots, as the fingers and the bow would be much more responsive and ready to obey the impulses of the player's mind."
http://www.jsbchorales.net/down/pdf/daily_dozen.pdf
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David Finckel (Cello) on playing fast
Talk 81: Calgary Talk III: Playing Fast from David Finckel and Wu Han on Vimeo.
David Finckel has a series of excellent videos on cello talks available
on both youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/davidfinckelandwuhan#g/c/AE1ED06AB33DF65D
and vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/channels/davidfinckelcellotalks
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A good channel from ViolinLabs.
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Clothespin Exercise for Double Jointed Violinists
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Hilary Hahn: chinrests and shoulder rests
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Alan Harris on Vibrato (on Cello, but applicable to violin)
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Violin Technique, Left Hand, VIOLIN FOR MUSICIANS, DVD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UxerVCeAsE&feature=related
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Warm-up stretches for violinists by
Violinist.com editor Laurie Niles
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Video Interview with violinist James Ehnes (on Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto)
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Free Violin Tutorials - Ning Kam - Intonation
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These are 70 great tips, from the composer and pianist Robert Schumann. Many of them made me smile. And with a few I disagree. But they are all interesting.
What is your favorite?
I like 37. XD
1- The cultivation of the Ear is of the greatest importance. Endeavour early to distinguish each several tone and key. Find out the exact notes sounded by the bell, the glass, the cuckoo, etc.
2- Practise frequently the scale and other finger exercises; but this alone is not sufficient. There are many people who think to obtain grand results in this way, and who up to a mature age spend many hours daily in mechanical labour. That is about the same, as if we tried every day to pronounce the alphabet with greater volubility! You can employ your time more usefully.
3- There are such things as mute pianoforte-keyboards; try them for a while, and you will discover that they are useless. Dumb people cannot teach us to speak.
4- Play strictly in time! The playing of many a virtuoso resembles the walk of an intoxicated person. Do not take such as your model.
5- Learn betimes the fundamental principles of Harmony.
6- Do not be afraid of the words Theory, Thoroughbass, Counterpoint, etc.; you will understand their full meaning in due time.
7- Never jingle! Play always with energy and do not leave a piece unfinished.
8- You may play too slow or too fast; both are faults.
9- Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
10-Take care always to have your instrument well tuned.
11- It is not only necessary that you should be able to play your pieces on the instrument, but you should also be able to hum the air without the piano. Strengthen your imagination so, that you may not only retain the melody of a composition, but even the harmony which belongs to it.
12- Endeavour, even with a poor voice, to sing at first sight without the aid of the instrument; by these means your ear for music will constantly improve.
13- In case you are endowed with a good voice, do not hesitate a moment to cultivate it; considering it at the same time as the most valuable gift which heaven has granted you!
14- You must be able to understand a piece of music upon paper.
15- When you play, never mind who listens to you.
16- Play always as if in the presence of a master.
17- If any one should place before you a composition to play at sight, read it over before you play it.
18- When you have done your musical day's work and feel tired, do not exert yourself further. It is better to rest than to work without pleasure and vigour.
19- In maturer years play no fashionable trifles. Time is precious. We should need to live a hundred lives, only to become acquainted with all the good works that exist.
20- With sweetmeats, pastry and confectionary we cannot bring up children in sound health. The mental food must be as simple and nourishing as the bodily. Great composers have sufficiently provided for the former; keep to their works.
21- All bravura-music soon grows antiquated. Rapid execution is valuable only when used to perfect the performance of real music.
22- Never help to circulate bad compositions; on the contrary, help to suppress them with earnestness.
23- You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
24- Do not think velocity, or passage-playing, your highest aim. Try to produce such an impression with a piece of music as was intended by the composer; all further exertions are caricatures.
25- Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
26- As to choice in the study of your pieces, ask the advice of more experienced persons than yourself; by so doing, you will save much time.
27- You must become acquainted by degrees with all the principal works of the more celebrated masters.
28- Do not be elated by the applause of the multitude; that of artists is of greater value.
29- All that is merely modish will soon go out of fashion, and if you practise it in age, you will appear a fop whom nobody esteems.
30- Much playing in society is more injurious than useful. Suit the taste and capacity of your audience; but never play anything which you know is trashy and worthless.
31- Do not miss an opportunity of practising music in company with others; as for example in Duets, Trios, etc.; this gives you a flowing and elevated style of playing, and self-possession.—Frequently accompany singers.
32- If all would play first violin, we could not obtain an orchestra. Therefore esteem every musician in his place.
33 - Love your peculiar instrument, but be not vain enough to consider it the greatest and only one. Remember that there are others as fine as yours. Remember also that singers exist, and that numbers, both in Chorus and Orchestra, produce the most sublime music; therefore do not overrate any Solo.
34 - As you grow up, become more intimate with scores (or partitions) than with virtuosi.
35 - Frequently play the fugues of good masters, above all, those by J. Seb. Bach. Let his “Well-tempered Harpsichord” be your daily bread. By these means you will certainly become a proficient.
36 - Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
37 - Relieve the severity of your musical studies by reading poetry. Take many a walk in the fields and woods!
38 - From vocalists you may learn much, but do not believe all that they say.
39 - Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.
40 - You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.
41 - A very valuable book you will find that: On Purity in Music, by Thibaut, a German Professor. Read it often, when you have come to years of greater maturity.
42 - If you pass a church and hear an organ, go in and listen. If allowed to sit on the organ bench, try your inexperienced fingers and marvel at the supreme power of music.
43 - Do not miss an opportunity of practising on the organ; for there is no instrument that can so effectually correct errors or impurity of style and touch as that.
44 - Frequently sing in choruses, especially the middle parts, this will help to make you a real musician.
45 - What is it to be musical? You will not be so, if your eyes are fixed on the notes with anxiety and you play your piece laboriously through; you will not be so, if (supposing that somebody should turn over two pages at once) you stop short and cannot proceed. But you will be so if you can almost foresee in a new piece what is to follow, or remember it in an old one,—in a word, if you have not only music in your fingers, but also in your head and heart.
46 - But how do we become musical? This, my young friend, is a gift from above; it consists chiefly of a fine ear and quick conception. And these gifts may be cultivated and enhanced. You will not become musical by confining 24yourself to your room and to mere mechanical studies, but by an extensive intercourse with the musical world, especially with the Chorus and the Orchestra.
47 - Become in early years well informed as to the extent of the human voice in its four modifications. Attend to it especially in the Chorus, examine in what tones its highest power lies, in what others it can be employed to affect the soft and tender passions.
48- Pay attention to national airs and songs of the people; they contain a vast assemblage of the finest melodies, and open to you a glimpse of the character of the different nations.
49- Fail not to practise the reading of old clefs, otherwise many treasures of past times will remain a closed fountain to you.
50- Attend early to the tone and character of the various instruments; try to impress their peculiar sound on your ear.
51- Do not neglect to attend good Operas.
52- Highly esteem the Old, but take also a warm interest in the New. Be not prejudiced against names unknown to you.
53- Do not judge a composition from the first time of hearing; that which pleases you at the first moment, is not always the best. Masters need to be studied. Many things will not become clear to you till you have reached a more advanced age.
54- In judging of compositions, discriminate between works of real art and those merely calculated to amuse amateurs. Cherish those of the former description, and do not get angry with the others.
55- Melody is the battle-cry of amateurs, and certainly music without melody is nothing. Understand, however, what these persons mean by it: a simple, flowing and pleasing rhythmical tune; this is enough to satisfy them. There are, however, others of a different 28sort, and whenever you open Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, or any real master, their melodies meet you in a thousand different shapes. I trust you will soon be tired of the inferior melodies, especially those out of the new Italian operas; and of all vulgar ones.
56- If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.
57- If you begin to compose, work it out in your head. Do not try a piece on your instrument, except when you have fully conceived it.
58- If your music came from your heart and soul, and did you feel it yourself,—it will operate on others in the same manner.
59- If Heaven has bestowed on you a fine imagination, you will often be seated at your piano in solitary hours, as if attached to it; you will desire to express the feelings of your heart in harmony, and the more clouded the sphere of harmony may perhaps be to you, the more mysteriously you will feel as if drawn into magic circles. In youth these may be your happiest hours. Beware, however, of abandoning yourself too often to the influence of a talent that induces you to lavish powers and time, as it were, upon phantoms. Mastery over the forms of composition and a clear expression of your ideas can only be attained by constant writing. Write, therefore, more than you improvise.
60- Acquire an early knowledge of the art of conducting music. Observe often the best conductors, and conduct along with them in your mind. This will give you clearness of perception and make you accurate.
61- Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences.
62- The laws of morals are those of art.
63- By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.
64- From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,—use it faithfully.
65- Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
66- The object of art is not to produce riches. Become a great artist, and all other desirable accessories will fall to your lot.
67- The Spirit will not become clear to you, before you understand the Forms of composition.
68- Perhaps genius alone understands genius fully.
69- It has been thought that a perfect musician must be able to see, in his mind's eye, any new, and even complicated, piece of orchestral music as if in full score lying before him! This is indeed the greatest triumph of musical intellect that can be imagined.
70- There is no end of learning.
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Nathan Milstein
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Pinkas Zukerman - Here To Make Music (Pt 1)
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Isaac Stern, From Mao to Mozart (DVD):
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The Art of The Violin, another excellent DVD:
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Alexander Markov On Violin Practice:
Alexander Markov On Vibrato Techniques
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Itzhak Perlman on how to do staccato (Lin Cho Liang):
Itzhak Perlman on Why Singing is Important
Itzhak On Practicing
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James Ehnes, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto demo:
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Prof. Hrachya Harutyunian with Hrachya Avanesyan:
Online Lesson: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, 1st mov.
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Violin Basics by Al Leong
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Kreutzer No. 36 (Mandarin)
http://www.tudou.com/v/xB6DMxla3bY
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林耀基小提琴入门教程 （Kayser 36 Etudes)
http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_3026778.html
林耀基讲解克莱采尔第1课 (Kreutzer 42 Studies)
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ4NzgwNTQ4.html
林耀基, 楊天媧:
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Yehudi Menuhin 6 Violin Lessons
http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_1827123.html
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学琴之路第一册 (赵薇）
http://v.youku.com/v_playlist/f2673086o1p0.html
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How to Hold the Violin
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Sautille bowing
Kayser No. 19 is an excellent etude to learn Sautille bowing.
Demo of Spiccato (sautille) 跳弓示範 using Kayser No.19
From ProfessorV:
Violin Lesson #49; Sautille Bowing pt. 1
Violin Lesson #50; Sautille' Bowing Pt. 2
Violin Lesson; Sautille Pt. 4 (Mendelssohn demonstration)
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Masterclass in Violin Artistry
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Scott Laird (D'Addario ad)
Bow Hold
Long Tones (drawing a long straight bow)
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郑锦龙小提琴教学法视频 - 24岁时对帕格尼尼演奏的探讨之3 - 三度练习方法
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTMyOTMwMzky.html
实用弓法
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQxNzg5Nzg4.html
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Sassmannshaus on Practice, How and Why
Sassmannshaus Q&A - Teaching Violin Vibrato
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Leonidas Kavakos on playing the violin
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Itzhak Perlman discusses and demonstrates from Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
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Dounis "Violin Players' Daily Dozen"
"It is a well known fact that after the violin is taken out of the case for the first time every day, the first two hours or more are wasted in REGAINING THAT FEELING OF EASE, FLUENCY AND SURETY WHICH THE VIOLINIST EXPERIENCES AT THE END OF HIS DAILY PRACTICE. How much time could be saved, how much energy could be spared, and how much more profitable would the daily practice be if that feeling of ease, fluency and surety can be had AT THE BEGINNING of the day's work instead of at the end, by practicing specific exercises for a few minutes composed according to scientific rules based on psycho-physiological laws. The scales, the etudes and the compositions to be learned would not present any more "ugly or rough" spots, as the fingers and the bow would be much more responsive and ready to obey the impulses of the player's mind."
http://www.jsbchorales.net/down/pdf/daily_dozen.pdf
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David Finckel (Cello) on playing fast
Talk 81: Calgary Talk III: Playing Fast from David Finckel and Wu Han on Vimeo.
David Finckel has a series of excellent videos on cello talks available
on both youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/davidfinckelandwuhan#g/c/AE1ED06AB33DF65D
and vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/channels/davidfinckelcellotalks
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A good channel from ViolinLabs.
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Clothespin Exercise for Double Jointed Violinists
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Hilary Hahn: chinrests and shoulder rests
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Alan Harris on Vibrato (on Cello, but applicable to violin)
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Violin Technique, Left Hand, VIOLIN FOR MUSICIANS, DVD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UxerVCeAsE&feature=related
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Warm-up stretches for violinists by
Violinist.com editor Laurie Niles
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Video Interview with violinist James Ehnes (on Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto)
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Free Violin Tutorials - Ning Kam - Intonation
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These are 70 great tips, from the composer and pianist Robert Schumann. Many of them made me smile. And with a few I disagree. But they are all interesting.
What is your favorite?
I like 37. XD
1- The cultivation of the Ear is of the greatest importance. Endeavour early to distinguish each several tone and key. Find out the exact notes sounded by the bell, the glass, the cuckoo, etc.
2- Practise frequently the scale and other finger exercises; but this alone is not sufficient. There are many people who think to obtain grand results in this way, and who up to a mature age spend many hours daily in mechanical labour. That is about the same, as if we tried every day to pronounce the alphabet with greater volubility! You can employ your time more usefully.
3- There are such things as mute pianoforte-keyboards; try them for a while, and you will discover that they are useless. Dumb people cannot teach us to speak.
4- Play strictly in time! The playing of many a virtuoso resembles the walk of an intoxicated person. Do not take such as your model.
5- Learn betimes the fundamental principles of Harmony.
6- Do not be afraid of the words Theory, Thoroughbass, Counterpoint, etc.; you will understand their full meaning in due time.
7- Never jingle! Play always with energy and do not leave a piece unfinished.
8- You may play too slow or too fast; both are faults.
9- Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
10-Take care always to have your instrument well tuned.
11- It is not only necessary that you should be able to play your pieces on the instrument, but you should also be able to hum the air without the piano. Strengthen your imagination so, that you may not only retain the melody of a composition, but even the harmony which belongs to it.
12- Endeavour, even with a poor voice, to sing at first sight without the aid of the instrument; by these means your ear for music will constantly improve.
13- In case you are endowed with a good voice, do not hesitate a moment to cultivate it; considering it at the same time as the most valuable gift which heaven has granted you!
14- You must be able to understand a piece of music upon paper.
15- When you play, never mind who listens to you.
16- Play always as if in the presence of a master.
17- If any one should place before you a composition to play at sight, read it over before you play it.
18- When you have done your musical day's work and feel tired, do not exert yourself further. It is better to rest than to work without pleasure and vigour.
19- In maturer years play no fashionable trifles. Time is precious. We should need to live a hundred lives, only to become acquainted with all the good works that exist.
20- With sweetmeats, pastry and confectionary we cannot bring up children in sound health. The mental food must be as simple and nourishing as the bodily. Great composers have sufficiently provided for the former; keep to their works.
21- All bravura-music soon grows antiquated. Rapid execution is valuable only when used to perfect the performance of real music.
22- Never help to circulate bad compositions; on the contrary, help to suppress them with earnestness.
23- You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
24- Do not think velocity, or passage-playing, your highest aim. Try to produce such an impression with a piece of music as was intended by the composer; all further exertions are caricatures.
25- Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
26- As to choice in the study of your pieces, ask the advice of more experienced persons than yourself; by so doing, you will save much time.
27- You must become acquainted by degrees with all the principal works of the more celebrated masters.
28- Do not be elated by the applause of the multitude; that of artists is of greater value.
29- All that is merely modish will soon go out of fashion, and if you practise it in age, you will appear a fop whom nobody esteems.
30- Much playing in society is more injurious than useful. Suit the taste and capacity of your audience; but never play anything which you know is trashy and worthless.
31- Do not miss an opportunity of practising music in company with others; as for example in Duets, Trios, etc.; this gives you a flowing and elevated style of playing, and self-possession.—Frequently accompany singers.
32- If all would play first violin, we could not obtain an orchestra. Therefore esteem every musician in his place.
33 - Love your peculiar instrument, but be not vain enough to consider it the greatest and only one. Remember that there are others as fine as yours. Remember also that singers exist, and that numbers, both in Chorus and Orchestra, produce the most sublime music; therefore do not overrate any Solo.
34 - As you grow up, become more intimate with scores (or partitions) than with virtuosi.
35 - Frequently play the fugues of good masters, above all, those by J. Seb. Bach. Let his “Well-tempered Harpsichord” be your daily bread. By these means you will certainly become a proficient.
36 - Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
37 - Relieve the severity of your musical studies by reading poetry. Take many a walk in the fields and woods!
38 - From vocalists you may learn much, but do not believe all that they say.
39 - Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.
40 - You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.
41 - A very valuable book you will find that: On Purity in Music, by Thibaut, a German Professor. Read it often, when you have come to years of greater maturity.
42 - If you pass a church and hear an organ, go in and listen. If allowed to sit on the organ bench, try your inexperienced fingers and marvel at the supreme power of music.
43 - Do not miss an opportunity of practising on the organ; for there is no instrument that can so effectually correct errors or impurity of style and touch as that.
44 - Frequently sing in choruses, especially the middle parts, this will help to make you a real musician.
45 - What is it to be musical? You will not be so, if your eyes are fixed on the notes with anxiety and you play your piece laboriously through; you will not be so, if (supposing that somebody should turn over two pages at once) you stop short and cannot proceed. But you will be so if you can almost foresee in a new piece what is to follow, or remember it in an old one,—in a word, if you have not only music in your fingers, but also in your head and heart.
46 - But how do we become musical? This, my young friend, is a gift from above; it consists chiefly of a fine ear and quick conception. And these gifts may be cultivated and enhanced. You will not become musical by confining 24yourself to your room and to mere mechanical studies, but by an extensive intercourse with the musical world, especially with the Chorus and the Orchestra.
47 - Become in early years well informed as to the extent of the human voice in its four modifications. Attend to it especially in the Chorus, examine in what tones its highest power lies, in what others it can be employed to affect the soft and tender passions.
48- Pay attention to national airs and songs of the people; they contain a vast assemblage of the finest melodies, and open to you a glimpse of the character of the different nations.
49- Fail not to practise the reading of old clefs, otherwise many treasures of past times will remain a closed fountain to you.
50- Attend early to the tone and character of the various instruments; try to impress their peculiar sound on your ear.
51- Do not neglect to attend good Operas.
52- Highly esteem the Old, but take also a warm interest in the New. Be not prejudiced against names unknown to you.
53- Do not judge a composition from the first time of hearing; that which pleases you at the first moment, is not always the best. Masters need to be studied. Many things will not become clear to you till you have reached a more advanced age.
54- In judging of compositions, discriminate between works of real art and those merely calculated to amuse amateurs. Cherish those of the former description, and do not get angry with the others.
55- Melody is the battle-cry of amateurs, and certainly music without melody is nothing. Understand, however, what these persons mean by it: a simple, flowing and pleasing rhythmical tune; this is enough to satisfy them. There are, however, others of a different 28sort, and whenever you open Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, or any real master, their melodies meet you in a thousand different shapes. I trust you will soon be tired of the inferior melodies, especially those out of the new Italian operas; and of all vulgar ones.
56- If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.
57- If you begin to compose, work it out in your head. Do not try a piece on your instrument, except when you have fully conceived it.
58- If your music came from your heart and soul, and did you feel it yourself,—it will operate on others in the same manner.
59- If Heaven has bestowed on you a fine imagination, you will often be seated at your piano in solitary hours, as if attached to it; you will desire to express the feelings of your heart in harmony, and the more clouded the sphere of harmony may perhaps be to you, the more mysteriously you will feel as if drawn into magic circles. In youth these may be your happiest hours. Beware, however, of abandoning yourself too often to the influence of a talent that induces you to lavish powers and time, as it were, upon phantoms. Mastery over the forms of composition and a clear expression of your ideas can only be attained by constant writing. Write, therefore, more than you improvise.
60- Acquire an early knowledge of the art of conducting music. Observe often the best conductors, and conduct along with them in your mind. This will give you clearness of perception and make you accurate.
61- Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences.
62- The laws of morals are those of art.
63- By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.
64- From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,—use it faithfully.
65- Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
66- The object of art is not to produce riches. Become a great artist, and all other desirable accessories will fall to your lot.
67- The Spirit will not become clear to you, before you understand the Forms of composition.
68- Perhaps genius alone understands genius fully.
69- It has been thought that a perfect musician must be able to see, in his mind's eye, any new, and even complicated, piece of orchestral music as if in full score lying before him! This is indeed the greatest triumph of musical intellect that can be imagined.
70- There is no end of learning.
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Nathan Cole, violin: spiccato coordination
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Hilary Hahn practicing
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