Here is a video of a 17-year-old student playing the first movement of the Bottesini Concerto for a competition. I like how the camera is carefully hidden from the audience–it makes the space he is playing in look quite bizarre. He admits (in the comments for this video) that there are a fair number of missed notes during this performance, but I think that his tone is quite nice.

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