NEW TO YOUTUBE | Tossy Spivakovsky Plays Sarasate's Introduction and Tarantella, Op. 43
Spivakovsky was one of the greats of twentieth-century violin playing, but the direction of his career and some of his unorthodox views on technique...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | VC Artist Francisco Fullana Performs "Asturias" by Isaac Albéniz
VC Artist Francisco Fullana’s “Bach’s Long Shadow” album is based around Bach's Partita for Solo Violin No. 3 in E major. “There’s an emotional...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | Hilary Hahn Performs Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor
Held in Bucharest's Grand Palace Hall, the program also featured Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody in D Major and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in E minor.
Currently...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | Rare 1924 Recording of Violinist Carl Flesch
Born in Moson, Hungary, in 1873, Carl Flesch received his first violin lessons at age five from a saddler who played at the local...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | VC Young Artist Jonathan Swensen Performs Khachaturian's Concerto Rhapsody
The concert was held in the Aram Khachaturian Concerthouse in Yerevan, and Swensen's encore was Bach's Sarabande from the first Cello Suite.
A current student...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | VC Artist Tessa Lark Discusses Her Instrument
In this newly released video, Tessa explains how she acquired her instrument made by G.P. Maggini (1600), which is considered to be one of...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | Zino Francescatti Performs Brahms's Violin Concerto in D Major
Born in Marseille in 1902, Zino Francescatti's life spanned almost the entirety of the twentieth century. He made his public debut aged 10, playing...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | VC Artist Attacca Quartet Perform "Real Life" by Louis Cole
The Attacca Quartet has recently released their debut album on Sony Classical. "Real Life" explores the quartet's interest in electronic music, and re-imagines tracks...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | VC Artists Augustin Hadelich & Xavier Foley — Bottesini's Grand Duo Concertante
Originally written for two double basses, Bottesini's Grand Duo Concertante was arranged for violin and double bass by Camillo Sivori.
Augustin and Foley play the...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | VC Young Artist Cellist Gabriel Martins Arranges Bach's Chaconne For Cello
For VC Young Artist Gabriel Martins, Bach’s music is what he truly feels connected to and is what allows him to hold onto his...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | VC Young Artist Santiago Cañón Valencia Performs J.S. Bach's Suite No. 6
VC Young Artist Santiago Cañón Valencia saw the pandemic's stay-at-home orders as an opportunity to branch out into something new. Upon receiving a commission from...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | Victor Pikayzen Performs Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
The Violin Channel recently caught up with internationally acclaimed violinist VC Artist Igor Pikayzen, the grandson of Victor Pikayzen, to ask about the recording.
Igor...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | Violinist Rachell Ellen Wong Performs Tartini’s “The Devil's Trill” Sonata
“I’ve often been labeled as a Baroque violinist,” Wong recently told The Violin Channel. “And while I do play Baroque violin and the music...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | Hilary Hahn Performs Dvorak Violin Concerto
This concert was performed in an empty hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt on April 22, 2021.
Hahn, one of the world's preeminent soloists, returned from a yearlong 2019-2020...
NEW TO YOUTUBE | Gil Shaham Performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
"Each one of these pieces, these great masterpieces, is like a friend, like a person you’ve known for so many years," Shaham reflected on...