Classical Mandolin solo Videos on YouTube

[Jim Garber]

I don't think these were posted here before. Some videos of Ugo Orlandi playing in Korea. Obviously recorded from the audience complete with coughing. Oh well, you get the idea.

It is very interesting to hear a few different people versions of, say, Piccola Gavotta. Such different interpretations. I have heard Carlo Aonzo, Gertrud Weyhofer, Alison Stephens and now Ugo Orlandi.

[Travis Finch]

Hello everyone,

I'm sure many of you have seen the original thread but I figured I'd cross-post here for posterity. From my BMus final recital at Trinity College of Music:

http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/sh...-Final-Recital

[Bruce Clausen]

I love this one. Please forgive if it has already appeared here.

[Jim MacDaniel]

Here are a few interesting Jacob Reuven and Alon Sariel videos that I didn't see elsewhere in this thread (my apologies for double-posting just in case I missed them)...

[joebrent]

Here's a tune Jen Curtis wrote called 'Moon In The Sand' from a duo concert at The Tank earlier this year. It gets really interesting right around the 4:16 mark.

[bratsche]

I thought this was pretty cool and innovative. Love the viola content. too.



bratsche

[bratsche]

And for something a little more traditional, these kids play this Elgar piece very beautifully:



bratsche

[Martin Jonas]

I'm not sure if he's been mentioned in this thread yet, but I've just come across the Youtube channel of Japanese player Kozo Onishi (as linked by me in another thread yesterday), and I thought he warrants a link here as well:

Kozo Onisho's Youtube channel

There are 290 (!) videos, a mixture of webcam solo recordings and concert footage, in a pretty impressive range of material (including original mandolin pieces by Munier, Abt, Pettine, Place and others, as well as the more common Calace and Bach pieces, and a fair number on non-classical pieces), plus a lot of clips with titles in Japanese where one needs to browse to find out what he's playing. At least three bowlbacks: a vintage Italian (Vinaccia or clone), a modern one (probably by a Japanese builder) and a modern bowlback octave mandola. Nice stuff -- he's clearly a very accomplished player, and the clips are well-recorded.

Here are a few pieces picked more or less at random:

Valentine Abt (on the Vinaccia-esque mandolin):


Calace liutio prelude No. 16 (on octave mandola):


Pettine (on the modern bowlback):


Martin

[vkioulaphides]

I have heard this as a work for flute and guitar but, while familiar with the composer, I won't hazard a guess on what the original instrumentation may have been. I enjoy it, all the same :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxIOj...eature=related

Cheers,

Victor

[Bertram Henze]

One cautious step of an ITM musician on classical territory...

[vkioulaphides]

Very nice— and VERY nice sounding instrument, too :-)

Have you heard Het Consort's recording of this work, in its orchestral guise? I highly recommend it.

Cheers,

Victor

[Bertram Henze]

Thanks Victor, also thanks for the hint - I found Het Consort's rendition on YouTube and was impressed.
I came to know this piece as the main title score of Barry Lyndon, a movie full of delicate classical music mixed with (or rather ripped apart by) human nature.

[Jim Garber]

I like this cross-cultural classical "mandolin" playing: Calace on the liqin.

[Jim Garber]

Here is Ya-Hui Chen playing Beethoven Variations. She does play Neapolitan mandolin one some pieces on her Youtube channel.

[vkioulaphides]

I genuinely enjoyed it! And, in an open-channel seance I just had, Beethoven did, too ;-)

Long live the arts, the meeting place of kindred spirits worldwide!

Cheers to one and all,

Victor

[Martin Jonas]

Our friend Michael Reichenbach has posted links at his blog to a number of interesting short films made by Mario De Pietro in around 1930 for British Pathe, now available online at the Pathe online archive. The link to Michael's blog entry is here.

Two of the clips:

Playing a rather fancy 1920s Calace

Playing a mandocello (Gibson, I think) to accompany a singer on La Paloma

Quite a few other clips there.

Martin

[Jim Garber]

Never mind... I see that Martin's now works. Too bad I can't delete this post. Great stuff. Victor and I will work on our hairdos for the next Aonzo workshop.

[Martin Jonas]

Sorry -- I first tried embedding the clips, but the forum software doesn't like the embedding HTML, so I changed it to simple links to the Pathe page.

Martin

[vkioulaphides]

FABULOUS! (Now, where did I put that hair-gel? Must find it... It goes SO well with the repertoire!)

Many thanks to Michael, and to Martin for the reference.

Victor

[el cro]

Here's my good friend Tatiana playing Azzurro for mandolin solo by Daigo Marumoto.



Enjoy,
Élio

[Margriet]

not complete solo, but I saw more video's with ensemble in this thread.

A performance of Vivaldi's concerto per duo mandolini in sol, RV 532, by Ugo Orlandi and the young mandolinist Raffaele La Ragione.

[Tom Wright]

Dmitrios Marinos was in town to sound out Pierre Boulez about new music for mandolin. I'm new to the classical picking field, actually, and I only noticed his mandolin case, so I asked his name and we chatted a bit. Here's a piece by Kostis Kritsotakis--- video/audio synchronization is nonexistent, as far as I can tell, but the music sounds like fun.

[joebrent]

Here's the strangely named Joe Brent Quartet from last Sunday --

Astor Piazzolla: Whisky


Regina Spektor: Better


Red Shoes

[Margriet]

This one already appeared in another thread, but should be mentioned here as well. I love it só much! Information is mentioned at the video. I have nothing to add, only to enjoy over and over and over....

[Marc Woodward]

Lovely playing by Alex and nice piece Victor, enjoyed!
Marc