Isaac Stern playing Bach's Chaconne in D minor for solo violin Single File

[DarthPreamp]

This is my favorite, because their is more emotion in his playing than either his skills or his instrument can hold, and that is perfect for this composition.

[danielsh1015]

I dare say Mr. Stern studied Heifetz performance closely. Good idea.

[helihobbit]

are there words?

[naujremssem]

Vengo de ver varias "Chaconas", de varios interpretes y me di cuenta que no hay de David Oistrakh, me intriga como la habria interpretado, eso y el concierto de Dvorak, y el de Schumman...

[miriamnz]

The interlude and key change to D maj at 7.18 mins, has to be one of the most sublime moments ever in music, done justice by Stern's mastery of expression. Stern was in a class of his own.

[jbcrazyinrhodeisland]

Truly amazing playing!

Can someone please tell me the style of playing at 4:45.

A true legend

[romain2katgmail]

@jbcrazyinrhodeisland The score shows 3-4 note chords with notes changing at a different rate, such as eighths and quarters against dotted half notes. It's up to the violinist to decide how to make the notes sound and bring out the moving lines within. The usual solution is some combination of arpeggios plus hanging on to some of the notes longer. Stern is pretty mainstream, while Nathan Milstein revoices some of the notes and brings out different inner rhythms; I like both a lot.

[jbcrazyinrhodeisland]

@romain2katgmail Thank you very much for that info...I like Sterns Chaconne the best..Although Menuhin is amazing at different points also..A rich era in Violin history..

[bvolsky]

@romain2katgmail The Milstein videos I've seen here have him playing this part with the exact bowing notated in my edition of sonatas and partitas. But I've seen other editions with similarly ambiguous bowings as you've described. My preference is of course for the Milstein popularized bowing, perhaps because I'm prejudiced towards the source that supplies the most information.

[aimson]

A great performance - one of the top several I've seen.

[NimbleTurtle13]

Wow I underestimated Isaac Stern. Incredible performance! 

[michael63580]

he speaks with his violin and it`s nice to see him to play... like a rock in the water^^ incredible:)

[sasha42196]

I just noticed how big IS's hands are. Bigger than Perlman's!

[VanessaMaeFan18]

every time i think about the chaconne, heifetz comes to my mind because he exposed me to it first and at the time, i was a newbie to classical violin as a whole and i did not understand it. years later, i began to love the chaconne and i am very particular in who i listen to when it comes to the chaconne. mr stern did an incredible job at playing the chaconne!!! LOVE LOVE MR STERN!!!!

[carolineleiden]

I grew up on precisely this piece of music by this violinplayer. Takes me back forty years. Sitting in the dark, after bedtime, on the top of the stairs, in the cold, in my pyamas with my bear, hiding so noone could send me back to bed and just listening to the magic of that record my father was playing downstairs.

He knew.

He let me.

Later I learnt that he had done just the same thing when he was little.

[milstein91]

FANATSTIC,why nobody else like this exists anymore??this is like beeing in the middle of a vulcano in the arpegiato section amazing,amzaing....

[pviola314]

0 dislikes, and it's over 9,000

[The1eee]

Lovely.....better than everybody.

[jfernandez107]

so much talent, so beautiful music ...

[mdavenrow]

Where is the "Love, Love, Love It" button? Geez, I wish I could sound like that... and on the Chaconne!

[VanessaMaeFan18]

@mdavenrow i know right?!!

[elRambodeVallecas]

GRANDIOSO

[rodicaiancu]

There is God....

[milstein91]

@rodicaiancu yes that s me