My brother and I performed in concert today (I played the violin and he played, for the first time in concert, the viola). This is me warming up for the Bruch Violin Concerto. We weren’t permitted to film the actual performance, so my dad videotaped the warmups.

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Sound sample of a powerful, resonant antique German Guarneri. The player is a high school violin student. The piece is an excerpt of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major, 1st movement.

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This blows me away each time I watch it. See what you think.

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An rare and very unusual violin, 19th century, with both German and Italian influences. Sound sample is the Presto movement of the Bach Sonata No. 1 played by a student violinist.

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