Here are links to videos demonstrating various common (and uncommon) musical instruments. Explore and enjoy!

Bassoon

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Concerto for Bassoon in B-flat Major, K.191, I. Allegro (1774)

Lady Gaga

The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet

 

Cello

Johann Sebastian Bach, Cello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007, I. Prelude

Mischa Maisky

 

Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 (1919)

Sol Gabetta, cello

 

Clarinet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622, I. Allegro (1791)

Sharon Kam

 

Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, I. Allegro (1891)

David Shifrin (clarinet) and Guarnieri Quartet

Artie Shaw, Concerto for Clarinet (1940)

Artie Shaw

 

Bass clarinet

Laurent Ben Slimane

Double bass

Johann Sebastian Bach, Cello Suite No. 3, BWV 1009, Bouree I & II

Mike Kazepides

Marco Panascia, jazz bass

 

Flute

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Flight of the Bumblebee (1900)

James Galway

 

Maurice Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe  Suite No. 2 (excerpt) (1912)

Emmanuel Pahud

 

Subcontrabass flute

Gareth McLearnon

French horn

Richard Strauss, Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 11 (1883)

David Pyatt

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Horn Quintet, K. 407, IV. Rondo (1782)

Bruno Schneider

 

Harp

George Friedrich Handel, Harp Concerto in B-flat Major Op. 4 No. 6, HWV 294, cadenza (1738)

Josh Layne

Benjamin Britten, Suite for Harp, Op. 83, I. Introduction (1969)

Catrin Finch

 

Harpsichord

Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050, III. Allegro (excerpt)

Gustav Leonhardt

Gyorgy Ligeti, Continuum (1968)

John Hansmann McKean

 

Oboe

Ludwig van Beethoven, Variations on themes from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, WoO 28 (1795)

 

George Friedrich Handel, “Hence, Iris, hence away” HWV58 (1774)

Albrecht Mayer

 

Organ

Johann Sebastian Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Hans-Andre Stamm

Percussion

Bongos

Steve Reich, Drumming, part I (1971)

So Percussion

 

Cymbal

 

Marimba and Steel Drum

Andy Akiho, Karakurenai (2007)

Ian Rosenblum (marimba), Andy Akiho (steel drum)

 

Snare drum

Anthony Cirone, Etude No. 7

Matthew Bauer

 

Timpani

Berlin Philharmonic, “The War of the Drummers”

Elliott Carter, Eight Pieces for Four Timpani, 8. March (1950)

 

Piano

Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No 32, Op. 111 I. Maestoso–Allegro con brio ed appassionato (1822)

Daniel Barenboim

Frederic-Francois Chopin, Valse Brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 18 (1833)

Lang Lang

 

Trombone

Jean-Baptiste Arban, Fantasie and Variations on The Carnival of Venice (1912)

Hakan Bjorkman

Duke Ellington & Juan Tizol, Caravan (1936)

 

Trumpet

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Flight of the Bumblebee (1900) & Mexican Hat Dance

Rafael Mendez

Miles Davis, So What (1959)

Miles Davis

 

Tuba

Alec Wilder, Sonata for Tuba and Piano, IV. Allegro (1959)

Charles Schuchat

 

Viola

Robert Schumann, Fairy Tales for Viola and Piano, Op. 113 (1851)

Yuri Bashmet

 

Dmitri Shostakovich, Sonata Op. 147 (excerpt) (1975)

Maxim Rysanov

 

 

Violin

Niccolo Paganini, Moto perpetuo, Op. 11 No. 6

Yehudi Menuhin

Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001, II. Fugue (1720)

Lara Trotovsek

 

Orchestra

Benjamin Britten, Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (1946)

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