[Restored, 1953] Isaac Stern - Sarasate Zigeunerweisen & Wieniawski Concerto No.2

[@pjb-philharmonischesjugend411]

I love how the pianist just doesn't care that Isaac Stern is still tuning at the beginning

[@users79]

Speak to my ebony and ivory keys! 😅

[@gracie99999]

lol as he shouldn’t

[@sadhbhdelahunt]

Piano sounds great too.

[@ИванИванов-с2ж1ю]

Да он просто забыл про скрипача, потом вспомнил

[@intheair1363]

It was a camera crew edit...

[@rl7651]

Flair, conviction, technically immaculate, virtuosity in spades, superb phrasing- at his best, Stern was one of the greatest for sure. Thanks for sharing this with all of us.

[@sadhbhdelahunt]

Love his playing. Violin sounds great, I guess he has well and truly seasoned and open it up.

[@낭주골총각]

전성기 시절의 어마어마한 테크닉의 소유자인 거장 아이작 스턴

[@高柳忠明]

ありがとうございます

[@xNeoGenesis]

That articulation in his fingers are a joy to see, just incredible.

[@deadmanswife3625]

And they say that handling the bow is 90% of the violin

[@guillermorochabrun3456]

@@deadmanswife3625 Articulation results of how both hands are articulated.

[@Aymeric_Bonhomme]

@@deadmanswife3625 indeed!

[@낭주골총각]

맞습니다.​@@deadmanswife3625

[@MadAuralSkills]

Stern’s Brahms Sonatas with Zakin on piano are an absolute treasure.

[@dlf3141]

Yes! They are the ones I grew up on, getting records out from the public library.

[@ТатьянаПерминова-ф2ч]

Невероятная техника! И такая интонация! Легко! Виртуозно! Браво! Брависсимо! Исаак. Стерн! 🕊️🌿🎶🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💐💐💐💐🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

[@lehrmandavid10]

In some ways, I feel Stern makes the case that total focus on sound production, intonation, and the like is a full -time job. He's not emotionally uninvolved. It's just that the thinking in violin pedagogy of the time was that looking heavenward, sighing dramatically, "selling the piece" with facial expressions and exaggerated body language detracted from transmuting psychic and physical energy into sound. I'm not knocking newer styles of showing emotion on your face if it is genuine. But reinventing old wine and putting it in new bottles is achieved at a price. Sometimes the old timers were onto something. Thanks for posting.

[@sammuelsitjar.]

Oh my. What can I say. .

[@sammuelsitjar.]

Has anybody heard Paganini played?

[@ql2ku]

He's come a long way in tone now that he's older, but even as a kid his fingers just floated over the notes like it was effortless.

[@stephanebelizaire3627]

Vivat for the Great Masters Mr Stern and Mr Zakin !

[@dinaviktorova9093]

Любимый скрипач, необыкновенно наполненное звучание ,большая радость услышать!

[@violinpraxis]

Absolut no BS. Straight and right on point I love it! 🥰

[@dharmachatterji9380]

Amazing, Violen Play, Wonderful,

[@ЛюбаВерховский]

Один из самых любимых скрипачей.❤ Хорошо что можно его увидеть и послушать.🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹🙏

[@mariedvorska6916]

O' my God, most wonderful ever.....Thank you sooo much for posting!.❤

[@claraartnow6645]

One, if not my favourite violinist! :D

[@yasi5765]

Thanks to the beautiful and deep performance, I am immersed in the memories of sleeping in and out of the music listening room in my youth that I had forgotten for a while.

[@antonvf9619]

this man is my God!!!!! many thanks for sharing

[@geigenatelierbrusch469]

Wonderful! Thankyou for giving us violin fanciers these treasures. Here it becomes evident that Stern in his prime was also an eminent technician. I grew up with the anecdote that Stern was scheduled for the Tschaikovski Concerto, then his agent phoned th local mangers to change the program: Mozart's G-major instead, then before the concert he phoned them again to inform that it would be Bach's a-minor.

[@violaisreallycool]

How hilarious! I always assumed stern to be of the technical caliber of oistrakh and milstein and such, but if that story was true maybe not so??

[@lehrmandavid10]

He absolutely was equal to them, for the period shown above. His sound was extraordinary. The window of this level was an extremely narrow one, as I experienced him in concert. Oistrakh, on the other hand, played beautifully his entire life.@@violaisreallycool

[@paulking2919]

Most Chinese people got to know this man from the documentary From Mao to Mozart. A shining virtuoso, and an inspiring teacher as well.

[@yacoubgirgis6400]

This is amazing

[@live_strings]

Thanks Daniel, regards from Buenos Aires.

[@lolamas3042]

Gracias por compartir estas imágenes! Me quedo sin palabras...👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💜🎶💜🎻

[@gracie99999]

[@sm9846]

Thank you so much for sharing ! From Iran

[@shell1951]

Why can't my fingers work as fast? He is splendid!

[@sitosanchez]

Thank you Daniel!!

[@DanielSantos-oq2qh]

Bravo...maestro Kurganov for the videos you post!...thank you?

[@ericksonlk]

Something that sometimes happen in old recordings (and footage) to show the virtuoso talent of a violinist is a slight acceleration of the source material. Not sure if it this is the case but it's a little sharp nonetheless.

[@sadhbhdelahunt]

It's easier to play faster than really slow.

[@paulpeabody6176]

absolutely astonishing, just listened to Itzhak as a "kid" on Ed Sullivan doing the same thing, no comparison , Stern when he played like this was a god, I begged Miss Delay for years to let me play for him, but finally she said . "Sweety" he won't be interested, because you are not Jewish .

[@KosteckiAdam]

Fantastic!

[@semrabahcivan8627]

Wonderful, thank you

[@joshuadavis5991]

thank you

[@dannymurzi3533]

🎩immeasurable👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@JustFiddler]

matur suksma

[@망히-z9z]

His best of all was the 'Fiddler on the roof'

[@cynthiawilson4500]

Im in awe.🥰

[@Daouda-4]

Great thanks a lot ! They play for which person, please? There is a man sitting on the sofa

[@DanielKurganov]

That was his pimp Sol Hurok.

[@Daouda-4]

@@DanielKurganov all right thank you ✨

[@gianlucalav]

Op.20 Stern in Prihoda, Saccan!!!

[@777galamian]

amazing...but what the heck is up with the creepy guy on the couch?

[@juliar6874]

🗽🎶❤️ O M G !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@opus4]

You're right, Daniel. This is Isaac Stern when his violin playing was...great. Do you happen to know who is the pianist?

[@daleelashea]

Alexander Zakin

[@LordCarmesimXXVII]

This violin is the definition of dark sound.

[@JustFiddler]

aku suka

[@dannyboy2267]

Nah, it's probably the way that it's recorded. Don't get me wrong, the violin could have a dark sound. I'm just saying that the reason it sounds dark and mellow in this video is because of the old recording quality that distorts the sound, not necessarily because the violin actually has that sound.

[@randombritishperson9077]

@@JustFiddler I think it’s a vuillaume copy of a del gesu

[@herbertkronzucker8367]

Stern's prime was indeed a strong prime. There are very few violinists today of this calibre. Sadly, later in his career he got quite sloppy, as also happened to some others (e.g. Ricci, Menuhin, Perlman, Mintz), and to some degree he became more of a politician. However, here, he is a delight still, at a level not too far from the likes of Heifetz or Oistrakh.

[@gregorydocenko4019]

Trying to compete with Heifetz. Right up there! Did you you know that part of the Jewish faith is not to be perfect. This is to humble oneself before GOD.

[@gracie99999]

i think last vid I watched he explains you question clearly himself. no competition, some have moved past this type of competition and thinking which is kinda shallow to say the least. nothing wrong with competition but some aspire for other aims. never stop learning even if you have to travel by foot to China. if your in your faith, might want to stop assuming cause assumptions are much worse then competition in any regards. and as far as perfection, we all have our aims and no one has reached perfection [if there’s such a thing] since it’s never ending even after this earth phase

[@alessandrovaccari782]

Everybody is good with YT x1.75

[@ВикторТодерян-я8ф]

Он прекрасно играет,но почему отдельные куски?

[@broccolee4328]

Holy shit @4:20 - firing off like a machine gun

[@dikkesigaar]

Where is the music ? Where is the Zigeuner? Look how fast i can play mama, why somone dont like that?

[@pelejuljus]

why he never play paganini?

[@violinhunter2]

There is only one problem - Ysaye never played this well. :-)

[@JulienGaudfroy]

You have no clue.

[@sebastiandangerfield9933]

You are deaf then.

[@lxtrem1284]

Ysaye??

[@violinhunter2]

@@lxtrem1284 Yes, Ysaye. Stern is portraying Eugene Ysaye in this movie. Ysaye, Sarasate, Joachim, De Beriot, Dounis, Enesco, Auer, Flesch, and a host of other fiddlers from that old era never played as well as people give them credit for. Today's violinists are much better technically, although not as expressive. In this clip, Stern conveys the emotion in the music while playing it nearly flawlessly technically..... Technique involves no more than control of intonation, rhythm, and sound.

[@lxtrem1284]

@@violinhunter2 what the hell is wrong with you?

[@jackburgess8579]

There is a noticeable loss of assurance - and with it an unjustifiable slowing of the tempo - when he reaches the lh pizzs at 3:19.

[@michaelblankenau6598]

Tabs please .

[@stevenj9970]

A great violinist whos prime didn't last very long, I'm afraid...

[@marcvilleneuve1889]

Indeed ...

[@leif1075]

Why do you ASSUME he's not still in his prime now?

[@DanielKurganov]

He’s dead

[@oguzhanyalc2280]

LOL

[@susius4211]

@@DanielKurganov lol

[@leif1075]

@@DanielKurganov oh I thought it was Itzak Perlman sorry

[@violinpraxis]

@@DanielKurganov 😂😅

[@Дмитрий-я4е3е]

Played better than Sarasate himself