"With Nicky" - Inspiration

Growing up, two of my dad’s favourite words were ‘Motivation’ and ‘Inspiration’. When my sister and I were little that basically went right over our heads, but given time and hours and hours of necessary practice, those two words come in really handy.

For me this sometimes involves taking a step back from the endless repetition of practising and looking at what can inspire us to channel more feeling, energy and commitment into our playing.

Music and our instruments can open doors into all sorts of learning. And I always believed that stepping into the mind and place of composers could get us to practice empathising. And doing so with those who seem situationally, geographically and culturally far from you is something we must continually readdress and practice throughout our lives.

This type of practice not only has the potential to motivate and inspire you musically and emotionally, but to nurture your personality and humanity. Take some moments in your practice to just think on this. It will serve you and those around you, in more ways than purely musically.

The videos have been generously supported by ESTA UK, MiSST – The Andrew Lloyd Webber Programme, and Oasby Music Group and I am very grateful for their support.

Huge thanks to our media partners Classic FM, The Strad, The Violin Channel, WQXR and Charanga Music who will be sharing the videos with their audiences.

Finally, these videos wouldn’t have been possible without an amazing team – thank you to Scott Jaeger, our film maker, Laura Gardiner, our Education Manager, Rebecca Driver, PR Manager and Hannah King, Online Media Manager.

To watch more of the clips shown in this video:

S. Prokofiev : Sonata no. 7 op. 83 in B flat Major - 3rd mov. 'Precipitato' (Sokolov) - https://youtu.be/Zwji3k0v_AM

Richter plays Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5 - https://youtu.be/dNPOZdztCP0

Prokofiev – Symphony No. 6, Op. 111 (Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Valery Gergiev) - https://youtu.be/3Y52JYoHY9g

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet -- Ball Scene (Macmillan) - https://youtu.be/yVwXXPFdoX4

With grateful thanks to NCO-GB, www.nco.org.uk and Black Swan Film and Video for the recording of Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2

TIME CODES:

00:32 Looking Elsewhere and Taking a Step Back
04:07 Motivation
07:14 The Importance of Strengthening the Depth of Our Feeling in Order To Express It
09:27 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2 with The National Children’s Orchestras of Great Britain

Видео "With Nicky" - Inspiration канала Nicola Benedetti