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Virtuosos
29 November 2015
Archived programme
“What is musical virtuosity? Has the performer really become more important than the work?”
Original introduction (English translation)
What is musical virtuosity? Has the performer really become more important than the work? Or has the performer become the work?… What did audiences seek at concerts in the nineteenth century, for example, and what does the concert platform offer today?
Musical examples
- A little cello playing in the woodsOriginal video ↗
- Haydn: Cello Concerto in C major, Mischa MaiskyOriginal video ↗
- Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor, K. 141Original video ↗
- Czerny Etude in G minor, Op. 740 no. 50Original video ↗
- Viotti: Violin Concerto No. 22Original video ↗
- Paganini: Caprice No. 9 on pianoOriginal video ↗
- József “Csócsi” LendvayOriginal video ↗
- Paganini: Caprice No. 24, Jascha HeifetzOriginal video ↗
- György Cziffra’s arrangement of Flight of the BumblebeeOriginal video ↗
- Jascha Heifetz parodyOriginal video ↗
- The Queen of the Night, Florence Foster JenkinsOriginal video ↗
- Oscar PetersonOriginal video ↗
- Federico Malaman, bass guitarOriginal video ↗
- Elgar: La Capricieuse, Ivry GitlisOriginal video ↗
- Stéphane GrappelliOriginal video ↗
- Grappelli on piano, Gitlis on violinOriginal video ↗
- Time for Three and Joshua BellOriginal video ↗
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