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Concert Review

An exquisitely beautiful concert, one of those where you feel the music arise, and it takes you to serene happiness through delightful works and players who were transmitting their huge love and deference to the music. The performers, all of them great artists; Laredo and Robinson enjoy great prestige; Polonsky's acting is pure poetry, as the Rutland Herald said of her; and Kanagawa and Eliaz are recognized and respected despite their youth.

Concert program

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in A major, Op. 100

Antonin Dvořák (1841 – 1904)
Piano, Violin, and Cello Trio in E minor, No. 4, Op. 90 “Dumky”

Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856)
Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44

The performers

Jaime Laredo, violin
Sharon Robinson, cello
Anna Polonsky, piano
Mayumi Kanagawa, violin
Celia Eliaz, viola

Jaime Laredo (violin)
Sharon Robinson (cello)
Joseph Kalichstein (piano)


Antonin Dvořák (1841 - 1904)
Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 90 “Dumky”
IV - Andante Moderato
Recorded in 1986

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Shared on YouTube on May 10, 2018
by Joseph Kalichstein Tema

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Jaime Laredo

Sharon Robinson

Anna Polonsky

Anna Polonsky (piano)
Bella Hristova (violin)

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Sonata for Violin in D minor No. 3, Op. 108
I - Allegro

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center
Enregistrat per Skillman Music el 25 de març de 2019

Recorded by Skilmman Music on March 26, 2019
Shared on YouTube on May 12, 2020
by Young Concert Artist

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Laredo, Robinson, and Polonsky were the performers for the second concert of this festival; on this occasion, they played with:

Mayumi Kanagawa

[Mayumi Kanagawa] “Effortless bless…with her nearly viola-like sound, she transfigured the agitation between genius and madness in Schumann’s Violin Concerto into touching beauty”

Frankfurter Allgemeine

Mayumi Kanagawa

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Sonata for Violin No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
I - Adagio
II - Fuga. Allegro
III - Siciliana
IV- Presto


Violin Stradivarius 1725 "Wilhelmj"

Live Recording
Nippon Music Foundation
The Association of Public Theaters and Halls in Japan
Ichinoseki Chamber of Culture

Shared on YouTube on April 30, 2025
by Sasakawa Music Foundation

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Mayumi Kanagawa (1994). She has studied with Kolja Blacher (1963), Yoshiko Nakura (1945), Masao Kawasaki (1951), and Robert Lipsett (1947).

In 2024, she won the first prize in the George Enescu International Competition. (George Enescu 1881 – 1959). She also received the prize for the best interpretation performance of an Enescu sonata. She won the silver medal at the Long-Thibaud Crespin Competition (2018), the International Tchaikovsky competition (Moscow 2019), and the Fresh Artist Award offered by Nippon Steel in 2024.

She has performed with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Mayumi Kanagawa Mayumi Kanagawa’s website explains her participation as an ambassador in the Ribbon Project in Japan, through which musical instruments are provided to children in foster homes. In addition, she participates in the dissemination of musical programs and visits schools around the world.

Since the end of 2023, she has taught at the Hochshule für Künste in Bremen. That same year, she recorded her first CD “Recital” with pianist Giuseppe Guarrera (1991), which garnered great critical acclaim in Japan.

She plays the “Wilhelmj” violin by Antonius Stradivari, made in 1725, and on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.This violin has a label that reads: “Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1725”. August Wilhelmj (1845 – 1908) was the owned this violin, hence its name, the Wilhelmj violin. The Nippon Music Foundation acquired it in 2001.

Celia Eliaz, viola

Celia Eliaz (viola) - Mari Kato (piano)

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Sonata for Violin Solo No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001
Vivace ma non troppo

Universitat Mozarteum Salzburg
Shared on YouTube on June 17, 2022
by Celia Eliaz

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Celia Eliaz (1997). studied in the “Sistema Nacional de Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela” (El Sistema).(National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela)

Subsequently, she obtained a higher degree in Music from the ESMUC (Catalonia Higher School of Music), and holds a university master‘s degree in viola and chamber music from Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

She has played with the Venezuelan Young Symphony Orchestra and the Venezuelan Children’s Symphony Orquestra, conducted by Sir Simon Ratler (1955), and also with the National Youth Orchestra of Catalonia (JONC).

Celia Eliaz won the second prize at the Francesco Geminiani Competition in Verona (2019), first prize at the P. Hindemith Competition at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, the Gianni Bergamo Classical Music Prize, and the Beija-flor String Quartet in Lugano (Switzerland).

She studied in masterclasses with Domingo Mujica, Adriana Virgüez Cruz, Silvia Simionescu, Thomas Riebl (1956), Alexander Pavlovsky, among others. One of her viola teachers not yet mentioned was Johathan Brown (1974), who has a deep connection with the Pau Casals Festival in El Vendrell, and he was a member of the Casals Quartet between 2002 and 2024.

The title of the concert

The title referred to another of Casals’ friends: Isaac Stern (1920 – 2001).

Casals and Stern

Stern wrote in his memoirs:

“The best image that comes to mind to describe Pablo Casals is a wall and a garden. Imagine that you suddenly find yourself in front of a wall and you don’t know that behind it there is a magnificent garden. What Casals did was to open the gate to this garden. When we entered we discovered thousands of colours and smells that we didn’t know existed. He revealed to us what you can achieve once you are inside the garden. To create our own colours and smells using the power of musical imagination is our responsibility.”

Isaac Stern
Reference: Fundació Pau Casals

Isaac Stern (violin)
Marcel Tabuteau (1887 - 1966) (oboe)
Fernando Valenti (1926 - 1990) (harpsichordist)
Prades Festival Orchestra
Conductor: Pablo Casals

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Violin and Oboe Concert in C minor, BWV 1060R
I- Allegro

Live Recording
This recording is part of the compilation entitled
"Prades & Perpignan, 1950 - 1952"

Shared on YouTube. December 3, 2020
by Isaac Stern Tema

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1950 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. Some musicians want to celebrate and hope that Pablo Casals will be present at the celebration. Casals did not want to perform on stage, because with his non-presence on stage, he wished to show his rejection of totalitarianism and of fascism. Bach was Casals’ favourite composer. He finally agreed to participate in a concert, but in Prades (Prada de Conflent in Catalan), where Casals lived. Schneider was instrumental in securing Casals’ acceptance. Casals arranged with Schneider to include young soloists in the orchestra. The two young soloists were Eugene Istomin (piano) and Isaac Stern (violin). (The second concert of the Pau Casals Festival 2025 in El Vendrell was dedicated to Istomin, the closing concert of the festival was dedicated to Schneider, the sixth festival was dedicated to Stern, and the ninth was dedicated to Rudolf Serkin).

On the website dedicated to Istomin (a great work by Bernard Meillat), we can read how Istomin and Stern formed a strong friendship and how Casals compared Stern to the violinist Eugène Ysaÿe, whom Casals greatly admired.

Casals’ vision was right, Stern and Istomin were great musicians, and their professional careers proved it.

One of Stern and Istomin’s dreams was to form a trio with Casals. That dream came true in 1952 at the Pablo Casals Festival in Prada. They performed together:

• 8 Schubert songs from Die schöne Müllerin, with the mezzosoprano Jenie Tourel (1900 – 1973)

• Schumann’s Violin Sonata, Op. 105

• Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 38

• Brahms Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101

At the Puerto Rico Festival in 1959 they were scheduled to play together again, but the program had to be changed.

But their real dream was to consolidate themselves as a trio, but this was not possible because Casals did not want to perform outside of Prades; because he wished to continue expressing his rejection of fascism, totalitarianism or dictatorial government, and he express it using the silence of his cello in the great theatres of the world; besides, Casals was 73 in 1950, Istomin 25 and Stern 30.

The influence of Casals on Istomin and Stern was so intense that Istomin declared: “There is no doubt in my mind that an already strongly ingrained chemistry between Stern and myself was enhanced by our collaborations with Casals."

Issac Stern (violin)
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Conductor Eugene Ormandy (1899 - 1985)

Edouard Lalo (1823 - 1892)
Symphonie Espagnole, Op. 21
I - Allegro non troppo
II - Scherzando: Allegro molto
III - Intermezzo: Allegro non troppo
IV - Andante
V- Rondo : Allegro

Philadelphia
1956

Shared on YouTube on June 30, 2024
by Classic&Opera

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Isaac Stern (1920 - 2001)

[Issac Stern] A Virtuoso in Perpetual Motion

Wall Street Journal

Isaac Stern was born in Kremenets on July 21, 1920. Kremenets is today a city in Ukraine, but in 1918 it was a city of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, in 1920 it was a city of Poland, and in 1922 a city of the U.S.S.R. This demonstrates the instability of the town

Stern’s family was Jewish. His parents, Clara Jaffe and Solomon Stern were both musicians. She had studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The family decided to emigrate to the USA when Isaac Stern was just ten months old.

An exceptional violinist since his childhood

Stern was 6 years old when he started learning piano with his mother, and at age 8, he began to study violin. When he gave his first concert at the age of 9, he demonstrated his high quality.

At age 11, he performed his first recital. He made his debut with an orchestra at the age of 17, performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Monteaux (1875 – 1964), the concertino was Naoum Blinder (1889 – 1965), Stern main violin teacher.

He debuted at New York’s Town Hall at the age of 18 and, finally, on January 8, 1943, he gave his first concert at Carnegie Hall, at the age of 22.

Isaac Stern made his European debut at the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland) under the direction of Charles Munch (1891 – 1968) in 1948.

Isaac Stern and the music: a way to cultural rapprochement

Andy Lanset a WNYC he explained on September 19, 2018, that Stern began a tour of the USSR on May 3, 1956, in the midst of the Cold War. In the last ten years, no American artist had visited the USSR. The first concert took place at the Moscow Great Conservatory Hall with the pianist Alexander Zakin (1903 – 1990). Stern subsequently visited Leningrad, Kyiv, Baku, Tbilisi, Eferan, and Moscow again. At each concert, Stern addressed the audience in Russian.

Perform music in China

Stern visited China just a year after China and the United States restarted diplomatic relations. The visit was documented in the film “Mao to Mozart: Issac Stern in China”. It was 1979.

Documental "From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China"
Shared on YouTube on January 12, 2025
by padroi

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Perform music in Israel

In 1967, a few days after the end of the Six-Day War, Isaac Stern performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on Mount Scopus (Har Ha Tsofin), under the direction of Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990).

A fierce battle was fought on Mount Scopus during that war. From there, Jerusalem can see. In fact, in 66 A.D., the Romans used this mount to witness their attack on Jerusalem. Today, Mount Scopus is home to various cultural, academic, and social institutions.

This documentary was filmed in 1967
It chronicles the visit of
Isaac Stern and Leonard Bernstein,
the concert they gave,
and the situation in Israel.
The concert can be seen from minute 46 to minute 58;
at minute 60 Mahler’s Second Symphony (Resurrection) begins;
at minute 66, the symphony continues,
but the images show the consequences of the war,
and then it returns to the theatre
to show the final moment of the concert.

Isaac Stern (violin)
Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990) (conductor)
Jennie Tourel (1899 o 1900 - 1973) (Mezzo-soprano)
Netania Davrath (1931 - 1987) (soprano)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Tel Aviv Philharmonic Choir

Concert program:
Fèlix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)

Shared on YouTube on February 2, 2022
by Peleg Levy

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On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during Yom Kippur. Isaac Stern visited Israel during that conflict and gave concerts in hospitals. Furthermore, Stern and Teddy Kollek (1911 – 2007), then mayor of Jerusalem, founded the Jerusalem Music Center, with the support of the Rothschild Foundation and the Jerusalem Foundation. The ultimate goal of this institution was, and remains, to support young Israeli musicians and offer high-quality concerts in the city.

In 1991, Stern was giving a concert in Jerusalem when the alarm sirens sounded, warning of a missile attack; the following documentary explains what happened.

It was February 23, 1991, during the Gulf War,
Isaac Stern and Zubin Mehta (1936)
with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the
Jerusalem Theater.
They were giving a concert.
They performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3.
Air raid sirens blared.
The music stopped. The musicians left the stage.
The audience began putting on gas masks.
Suddenly, Issac Stern returns to the stage.
And then, he began to interpret
the adagio from Bach’s Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001.

Shared on YouTube on January 17, 2012
by Laurent Touil-Tartour

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Stern was confident that Saddam Hussein would not attack Jerusalem because in the city were Muslim holy sites and a large Palestinian population.

Support for the development of new musical talents

Stern had a genuine interest in providing opportunities for young musicians.

He had an interesting vision about opportunities. In an interview with Bruce Duffie Stern stated that it is necessary to provide opportunities to fail, because without the opportunity to fail, it is not possible to have the opportunity to succeed.

A viewpoint that demonstrates emotional intelligence and knowledge of life; support and the development of resilience are necessary in any project in our lives, whether professional or personal.

Along these lines, Stern developed the Jerusalem International Music Meeting, a four-week course dedicated exclusively to Beethoven, and taught to established musicians.

Isaac Stern as a teacher

Many renowned musicians studied with Stern. For instance: Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Renaud Capuçon...

This recording was made on the
60th anniversary of Stern’s birth.
Itzhak Perlman (1967) and Pinchas Zukerman (1948),
both students of Stern, participated.
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra,
conducted by Zubin Mehta (1936), also participated.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Concerto in D minor for two violins and orchestra, BWV 1043
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
Concerto in F major for three violins, No. 34
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364.

Recorded in 1981
Shared on YouTube on May 31, 2023
by JK Archives

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Ax-Stern-Laredo-Ma Quartet

Stern formed a quartet in 1989 with himself, two of his students, Emanuel Ax (1949), Yo-Yo Ma (1955), and Jaime Laredo (1941). All of them were and are renowned soloists. For fifteen years, they performed together on numerous occasions and recorded together a good number of albums.

Jaime Laredo (1941)(violin)
Emanuel Ax (1949) (piano)
Isaac Stern (violin)
Yo-Yo Ma (1955) (cello)

Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
I - Allegro molto moderato

Recorded in 1992
Shared on YouTube on September 30, 2015
by Yo-Yo Ma

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Istomin–Stern–Rose Trio

This trio was born out of a desire: Istomin and Stern wanted to play together, and in their dreams, the trio was completed with Casals, but that was not possible, as already explained in another paragraph. So, they formed it with another musician: Leonard Rose. The trio worked together for 28 years. They gave more than 200 concerts and recorded 19 albums.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Triple Concerto in C Major Op. 36
I- Allegro
Eugene Istomin (1925 - 2003) (piano)
Isaac Stern ( 1920 – 2001) (violin)
Leonard Rose (1918 – 1984) (cello)
Pablo Casals (1876 – 1973) (conductor)

Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, May 31, 1970
Shared on YouTube on March 30, 2018
by Mit Feuer

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The trio Istomin-Stern-Rose first performed together in 1955 at the Ravinia Festival. At that time, chamber music was not too highly valued in the United States.

In their opinion, chamber music was as important as the symphonies or the concertos. They played together, but at the same time, each one of them had their own career as soloists.

They were considered the heirs of the Cortot-Thibaud-Casals Trio.

Saving the Carnegie Hall

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall

Issac Stern

Isaac Stern maintained a very close relationship with Carnegie Hall. From 1943 to 2001. Stern offered more than 200 performances in it. But this connection became more evident due to Stern's intense involvement in saving Carnegie Hall from demolition in 1960.

This link will take you to the History of Carnegie Hall. In the chapter, “A Brief History of Carnegie Hall”, you can download a PDF with the history.

Stern's last activity at Carnegie Hall was on June 9, 2000. It was a three-day workshop. He didn't play; he was the presenter.

On September 22, 2001, Stern died at the age of 81.
Carnegie Hall dedicates the 2019 - 2020 season in honour of Isaac Stern for the centennial of his birth.

This video is a celebration of the
centennial of Isaac Stern’s birth.

Shared on YouTube on July 20, 2020.
by Carnegie Hall

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Isaac Stern and the cinema

The first reference is the film “Humoresque”. Stern was an advisor, performed the music, and we can see his arms playing the violin in the early shots. The film tells the story of a violinist. Humoresque is the title of a composition by Antonin Dvořák (1841 – 1904).

Except from the film Humoresque.
Starring John Garfield (1913 – 1952)
and pianist and composer Oscar Levant (1906 – 1972).

The film was directed by Jean Negulesco (1900 – 1933)

Shared on YouTube on April 22, 2015,
by Daniel Kurganov (Violinista)

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As already stated in another paragraph, Casals said that Stern reminded him of Ysaÿe, whom he greatly admired. This was in 1950. Three years later, in 1953, Stern acted in a film as Eugène Ysaÿe (1858 – 1931). It was in the film “Tonight We Sing” dedicated to the impresario and music manager Sol Hurok (1888 – 1974).

A clip from the film
"Tonight We Sing,"
in which Stern plays Ysaÿe.
Stern performed accompanied by
pianist Alexander Zarkin,
though Zarkin is not credited.

Shared on YouTube on January 11, 2022
by David Sukonick

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In the film Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Stern played the violin solos. (In this film, the orchestration, arrangement, and conducting of the orchestra were done by John Williams.)

Film credits for the film
“Fiddler on the Roof”,
with music performed
by Isaac Stern.

Shared on YouTube on February 14, 2017
by Miguel

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In the film “Mr Ripley” (1999), the second movement (Andante Cantabile) in E-Flat major, Op. 16, of Beethoven’s Piano Quintet in version Piano Quartet was used, performed by Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel Ax.

This music was used in the film
“Mr. Ripley” (1999)

Ax-Stern-Laredo-Ma

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Quintet in E-Flat major, Op. 16, in version Piano Quartet,
II - Andante Cantabile

Shared on YouTube on January 25, 2017
by Yo-Yo Ma

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Awards and recognitions

“From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China” (1979) won the Oscar for best documentary in 1981.

Isaac Stern won 7 Grammy Awards and was nominated 29 times.

1961 – Best Classical Performance. Instrumental Soloist with Concerto Scale Accompaniment. Béla Bartok (1881 – 1945). Violin Concerto No 1

1962 - Best Classical Performance. Instrumental Soloist with orchestra. Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) Violin Concerto in D

1964 - Best Classical Performance. Instrumental Soloist with orchestra. Serguéi Prokófiev (1891 – 1953) Violin Concerto No 1 in D

1970 – Best Chamber Music Performance Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) The Complete Piano Trios

1977 – Best Classical Music Album. Concert of The Century

1981 – Best Classical Performance. Instrumental Soloist with orchestra. Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration

1991 – Best Chamber Music Performance Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Piano Quartets (Op. 25 & 26)

In 1991, Stern was awarded the National Medal of Arts Recipient.

In 1992, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, granted during the presidency (1989 – 1993) of George H. W. Busch (1924 – 2018).

On the Isaac Stern website we can see that he was awarded Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur (France) in 1990.

Among other accolades, the Kennedy Center website explains that Stern received the Albert Schweitzer Music Award in 1976 "for a life dedicated to music and devoted to humanity". Furthermore, in 1984 the Kennedy Center honored him at a ceremony held in the East Wing of the White House during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. One of Stern's well-known phrases, so much so that Reagan quoted it at the awards ceremony, is "I got my break because of the faith and belief private people showed in my work", which makes his support for new young musical talent even more understandable.

in Israel, in 1987,Stern also received the Wolf Award.

: “for his everlasting humanistic contribution to society as an artist and educator, which transcends the boundaries of musical performance”. In 1997, the Government of Japan awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun, Third Class, for his passion to provide education to younger generations.

In 2000, he received the Polar Music Prize from Sweden for Stern’s commitment to the education of new generations. They especially highlighted Stern’s attitude towards the humanist power of music.
He holds an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. He has also been honored by the Juilliard School, Yale University, Columbia University, New York University, Johns Hopkins University, Oxford University, and Tel Aviv University, among others.

Isaac Stern’s violins

• “Kreuse-Vormbaum” Stradivarius de 1728
  (Antonio Stradivari, 1644 – 1737)

• “Ex-Stern” Bergonzi de 1733
  (Carlo Bergonzi, 1683 - 1747)

• “Panette” Guarneri del Gesù de 1737
  (Giuseppe Guarniere del Gesù, 1698 – 1744)
  Today Renaud Capuçon (1976) plays this violin

Violin "Stern, ex Panette" by Guarnieri del Gesù de 1737
On the Tarisio website we can read
that this violin was sold by
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume in 1847.
The violin was in París until1920. It was bought in 1944
by Isaac Stern
who paid $65,000 for it;
almost 50 years later, Stern
sold it to the collector David Fulton.
On this same website, we can read an interview with
Renaud Capuçon, who said about this violin:
" I have all the recordings, all the pictures;
there is one with Pablo Casals
smoking his cigar with
this violin by his side”.

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787)
Melody (Orfeo ed Euridice) Wq.30
Arrangement for violin and piano by Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962)

Renaud Capuçon (1976) violin
Jerome Ducros(1974) piano

Shared on YouTube. May 12, 2009
by stanlefo

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• Michele Angelo Bergonzi (1739 -1757)
  

• Giovanni Guardagnini 1754
  Guardagnini ( 1711 - 1786)
  

• “Ex-Nicolas I” or “Tsar Nicholas”
  Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
  This violin was commissioned in 1840 by Prince and composer Alexei Lvov (1799 – 1870)
  (Font: Ingles&Hayday)
  

• “Vuillame de Stern” 1850.
  This violin is a copy of a Panette (Guarneri del Gesù). It has a label that reads: “Jean Baptiste Vuillaume in Paris, and the number 1774.
  This violin was part of a quartet that Villaume built for his son-in-law, the violist Delphin Alarad (1815 – 1888)
  

• “Stern”
  A 1994 copy of the Guarneri violin
  made by Samuel Zygmuntowicz(1956)
  

( Link to Tarisio website , where we can read about the violins and bows sold in 2003 that were owned by Isaac Stern.

From 1965 to 1998, Stern was the owner of the violin “Ysaÿe Guarnerius” de Guarneri del Gesù 1740.
This violin had belonged to Eugène Ysaÿe (1858 - 1931).

Ysaÿe placed a label on the violin. The label reads: ‘Ce del Gesù fut le fidéle compagnone de ma vie – Eugène Ysaÿe 1928’ (This del Gesù was the faithful companion of my life) Stern placed another label almost next to Ysaÿe’s label; Stern’s label reads: “La mienne aussi” (Mine too)

This violin currently belongs to the Nippon Music Foundation. Sergey Khachatryan played it from 2010 to 2022, recording all six sonatas, Op. 27, by Eugène Ysaÿe.

Mozart, Stern’s home

"Mozart’s music is like an X-ray of your soul
– it shows what is there and what is not"

Isaac Stern

This quote from Stern appears on numerous occasions, and his opinion was well known. Therefore, the review written by Bernard Gavoty (Claredon) in Le Figaró, titled “Stern chez Mozart” (Stern at Mozart’s House), on January 29, 1973, is not surprising. The day before, Stern had given a concert performing two Mozart concertos. One of them was the Violin Concerto No. 3, the work that Stern performed most frequently. Moreover. It was the first Mozart work he recorded, in 1950

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major K 216
I - Alegro
II - Adagio
III - Rondo: Allegro

Isaac Stern (violí)
Columbia Chamber Orchestra conductor Isaac Stern
Nova York, 1950

This is an interesting document,
because Stern didn't like being both
conductor and soloist at the same time.
But in this case,
he is doing both

Shared on YouTube. May 6, 2022
byClassic &Opera.

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