I played the Canon by Pachelbel (2nd half) with an excerpt from the BBC mini-series ‘Parade’s End’ (2012).

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.

I played ‘A Time for Us’ from Romeo & Juliet (arr. by Marie Leloup).
Images from Franco Zeffirelli’s movie with Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting (1968).

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.

I played a small étude by Maia Bang, from her Method for Violin which I have been following.

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.

There are a few reasons why we should admire young performers. I will give you a number of those in time. It is certainly a transient state, but not one without its merits.
Let us for now start with Joshua Galasse and let the argument be Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor.

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Images from the movie ‘Mr Brooks’ (MGM, dir. Bruce Evans, 2007, excerpts).
Music from Antonio Vivaldi ‘Viola d’Amore’ (deranged excerpts).

A sensorial experiment. I am playing a violin exercise designed to confront the player with the same notes played in different ways. If in the begining there was just one note, then this must be how music came to be.

Follow Mr. Parish in his wonderful journey into the afterlife.
When you are a very respectable person, Death meets you in a tie and suit with fanfarre & fireworks.

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Images from the movie ‘Meet Joe Black’ (Universal Pictures, 1998, dir. Martin Brest, excerpts).
Soundtrack from Camile Saint-Saens ‘Danse Macabre’ (Symphony Orchestra of the Marcin Zebrowsky Music School, dir. Zygmunt Nitkiewicz, 2013, excerpts) and Gustav Mahler’s 5th Symphony Trauermarsch (Junges Philharmonisches Orchester NiederSachsen, excerpts).

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This clip features Dmitri Schostakowitsch Waltz No 2 performed by the Zentralschweizer Jugendsinfonieorchester directed by Felix Schüeli (Sep. 18, 2016, excerpt) and part of the movie ‘Silence of the Lambs’ (1991, edited excerpt).