Isaac Stern plays Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto- Allegro (clip)

[guglielmiable]

c'est tres beau !!!!! j'aime beaucoup cette interprétation.

[darkgarb555]

I love the powerful feeling he brings into the piece

[lerosalima]

Heifetz could play this when he was only seven years old.

[JPLGaGa123]

@lerosalima So? Sir, we are watching and talking about Isaac Stern. Not Heifetz, both were great and were violinists beyond reproach. No need for comparisons of who plays more cleanly or has more skill and he learned this piece at age whatever. Stern and Heifetz were both wonderful and both very skilled at what they did.

[SomeAnimeOtaku]

@lerosalima JPLGaGa123 is right and he's not the only one who can play pieces like this (or even harder) around that age.

[ManPGC]

Uma maravilha!

[ffv45]

where to find the rest ? please ~~~~~~~~~

[ricachu0125]

WOW! Sarah Chang is indeed his pupil!! they sound wonderfully the same!! i LOVE their music! <3

[wingklow]

This video demonstrates how intense a sound Stern makes. Not many people can do that, especially the girl violinists because of their physical limitations.

[cheesycheese54]

GOD DAMN IT WHOEVER SAYS THAT HE IS OUT OF TUNE DOESNT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MUSIC. HIM AND THE WHOLE ORCHESTRA ARE TUNED TO 442 OR 443 ON THE HERTZ SCALE BUT SINCE YOU GUYS DONT KNOW ANYTHING IT DOESNT MATTER. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT BEFORE TALKING. HE IS ONE OF THE GREATEST VIOLINIST OF ALL TIME SO JUST SHUT UP.

[Majhnavea0]

cut off at the best part :(

[allumedezik613]

I prefer Shlomo Mintz playing mendelshon concerto

[sayanikaeya]

Very Good! the only thing is that he needs to push outwards with the bow in this video. But anyway, ISSAC STERN IS ONE OF THE GREATEST VIOLINISTS OF ALL TIME!

[sevcik2]

What a great master....artist!!

[assindiastignani]

At his very best, Stern played so in tune it almost hurt. In the late 60's and early 70's he began getting more involved with other projests: saving Carnegie Hall(of which he later becam director or president) from destruction, helping young people, being on the boards of Arts Funding Foundations, and other assorted very noble things and it seemed he practiced less. But , it's all relative. A slightly "off" night for Stern would be a Gala Evening for anyone else.

[MrPutterify]

I cant believe that he missed the shift to the fifth note, but still he was a legend!

[Tokgabi]

Fifth note was very out of tune. But I have a recording of him playing this Mendelssohn that I favor over almost all other Mendelssohn concerto versions.

[kohavcheli]

C'est bizarre, je réécoute et j'ai la sensation que le violon a accorder plus haut que l'orchestre, il n'y a pas d'ensemble, ou c'est un vielle enregistrement...

[kohavcheli]

C'est fascinant! Bravo maestro! Actuellement je lis le livre d'Isaak Stern "Mes 79 premières années", je conseil a tous.

[GODvsAKA]

six people don't be jealous

[yayoi2011]

なぜカデンツァの前でカットするーー！！？聞きたいです。

[1hanamoon]

i love marybeth

[l56787]

un regal

[shimizuayujp]

見事としか言いようが無い。メンコン。一楽章だけだが。

[Baileathacliath666]

You don't have to be a musician yourself to know if someone is in tune - just have a good ear. The latter is something which even famous musicians don't necessarily have, no matter how well they handle the instrument.

[Chessmapling]

@Baileathacliath666 i know u posted this 2 months ago but i sort of disagree. i think all famous musicians have good ears because its extremely hard to play any instrument without an ear. how would they know if they were in tune or not? there have been cases where violinists are playing and then suddenly one string gets out of tune. but because they have a good ear...they can adjust their fingerings to match the out-of-tune string, thus still producing a good note

[Javier141145]

¡¡¡Cuanta angélica placidez!!!

[alevazi]

amazing, he is one of the greats of violin, that sound i remember when i was learning and my teatcher tell me to listen that man.

[alevazi]

so beautiful, amazing, he is an icone, always. He´s death only in the phisic, because in the mind he lives.He is one of the great´s off all times.

And the question about de tune, let me ask you, are you a violin player?

[Eztoez]

Beautiful. I'm not sure whether I prefer Stern or Perlman's performance. Both are utterly divine

[SogniAzzurri]

@Eztoez I could never decide either, lol. But try Menuhin as well and you will have a really Divine Trio :-)

[firewilsons]

1:43 =.= very strong

[violinoamore]

Oh my, the beginning was so much out of tune :(

[comandercody67]

good song



[bilderbergjapan]

GREAT performance. 

[hypermassimo]

grande per dire poco.

[huangyanxi]

Good musicality and very passionate, but his often out-of-tune notes utterly destroys the whole piece starting with the high E at 0:54.

[musicsdarkangel]

That other poster is right, he is often out of tune.

He didn't have the intonation that say, Heifitz had. However, he had personality, and to most ears, that's what matter's most. To those of us that are tone-sensative or have acute pitch, our ears ruin the performance for us. Anyway, listen to Aaron Rosand's recording of this piece, you'll be blown away.

[elzbieta52]

What wonderful technique.

[horsemad1670]

A wonderful piece. (Out of tune ??? , Clean your ears ! )

[frankcisyarmi]

Hermosa version un placer grande Isaac Stern

[Burnsengine]

amazing - thanks for the post!

[deRien815]

Eventually I came to know why Stern's version is more impressive than Mintz...See how powerful he is in the 20 seconds from 5:31. He is fully devoted into the music and has no "selfish" reservations, i mean, he's a juggernaut squashing every technique difficulties and marching with great steps without looking down to the road...

[sballuk]

@deRien815 And at the note at 5.43 - he's just giving it everything, laying into the note passionately. It's not the most clinically precise, but there's great spirit that loads of versions on youtube lack completely. I much prefer this to Mintz.

[Shelldamage]

So wonderfull !

[loyuit]

be' sul piu' bello interrompere il grande isaac......

[admankramer]

definitely my favorite Mendelssohn concerto of all time

[dmytropiano]

Great!

[vinhquang1]

wonderful bothe compositer and players ! I don't know how old and where I'm when listening to this !

[muitaloca]

Brilhante!

[sleepyjumpy]

What a sound...

[me47244]

fantastic- such  sweet singing violin!

[Vladarya]

неплохо

[beckfiddle]

ai meu ouvido! lá "sustenido"? :S Isaac Stern é mestre, mas é falho tbm...

[noxrubbish]

pause at 5:40: looks like he got shot

[lindavos1]

Is the Amsterdam Cencertgebouw orchestra I guess. At least they are playing in the building...

[jg33brunner]

Incredible. It is like he is really ripping his shirt off to give us something extradordianry. I grew up with a recording of him and the Boston playing this piece.

All other performances have always paled by comparison. The sweetness , the anger, the bliss, the depth and contrast of phrasing and richness of sound. Awesom . thanks for the post.

[assindiastignani]

@jg33brunner Hi. I agree with you. I always loved Stern's recording of this piece, or any piece for that matter, but didin't he do it with Ormandy and Philadelphia? He was with Columbia, and Boston was at that time RCA...or am I wrong? Anyhow. I hope someone will re-issue his Beethoven Concerto with Bernstein and NY. Talk about cosmic!!

[henrykkingdom]

great!!

[ddlargo69]

Stern is fantastic, but closely listen to the orchestra.  They have a quality I haven't heard since I was a child!

[erlingh123]

Stern was the greatest, with David Oistracht as a close nr. 2 The details you complain about are insignificant - Stern opens up a world for us, and he is not afraid to take risks to get there.

[bopkick5]

frend , he is my mum's favorite violinist

[Baytuch]

I think he's a bit on the sharp side in the beginning but otherwise good.

[qxw66]

excellent!

[noaTr]

wow! when I was a child i heard it as a part of the story The poos in boots... so exiting to see Issac Stern plays. one and only

[pinchaszukerm]

it's "schmalzig" in the best way possible...what Menuhin referred to when he said that Russian violinists paint with a lot of oil. Wonderful.

[fifig10]

I think Stern would deliberately play the beginning of this "to known" concerto out of tune. That makes a stranger effect, but it changes the apparence of this concerto and gives to the concerto a new attraction.

[246trinitrotoluene]

my favourite concerto to solo with an orchestra.

[craisslayer]

@246trinitrotoluene So you mean your favorite concerto right? Unless you like playing concertos by yourself hahaha.

[246trinitrotoluene]

well there are other violins playing as well

there is solo along with violin I, violin II, etc

the violin II and 90% of the violin I part can be played by intermediate players... the solo is where the fun stuff is

[shmankersox]

where's the rest of it?!

[JCGL2261]

Sonidos limpios, claros, trasparentes. Excelente dominio del arco y la fricción de las cerdas sobre las hambrientas cuerdas para aflorar el bello sonido que ocultan en sus fríos cuerpos. Que sonido ESPECTACULAR. Isaac Stern, todo un VIRTUOSO INTERPRETE.

[OriginalMoonbeam]

When he was hot he was smokin'...he did some things I absolutely loved...and clearly his mentorship with Mintz reflects in Mintz's wonderful expressionism, which I always felt Mr. Stern's expressionism was his most powerful gift...his Tzigane recording was wonderful, I will long remember his Saint Saens Rondo and Caprissio and his Geminiani that so few even play..

[calloffthedogs]

Isaac hated to practice - hence sometimes he wouldnt be in peak shape and his intonation would be a little wayward. Even the greats gotta practice to maintain form!!!

[MrViolin1234]

Stern's playing actually did get worse in terms of intonation throughout the 70's. With much criticism, he decided to step up his practice regiments and in the 80's, his playing is much more in tune. There's a Leclair sonata for 2 violins on youtube with Stern that is almost perfectly in tune, and it was the late 80's.

[MrDouglasfairbanks]

pure brutality it's violence to the hilt!

[raanan17]

The beginning is not in tune,and it is not the video.

I am not objective,I find Mr. Stern's playing highly intelligent,but highly unappetizing at the same time.

His reputation was built more on politics than his real merit.I doubt if his playing will survive the test of time.

[ButterS38g]

I respect and understand that your opinion is your own. but who really cares, this man is obviously a world class violinist. Another good one to look at, is umm... schmoltz I think it is. You can find him under mendelssohn violin concerto. Enjoy!

[MrAnimeFreak777]

SO I WAS RIGHT

he was out of tune

[sijas]

@MrAnimeFreak777 i thought that at first too, but i think the whole video is just a bit sharp...

[DocBarc]

@MrAnimeFreak777 are you stupid? your brain is out of tune dude...

[MrAnimeFreak777]

@DocBarc uhh. i have 9 votes for up. uumm i think your brain is out of tune.

[hugotoxxxxx]

@MrAnimeFreak777 Well it MAY be caused by quality of the video (its hard to belive that not just the viollinist but Stern was out of tune)

[daniluzzu]

@MrAnimeFreak777 Wow....go figure what's in your mind if you come here and note, out of an overwhelmingly beautiful, passionate and masterful performance (and with no cuts), that he was out of tune.....shame

[dbpsoccer121]

@MrAnimeFreak777 I mean, yeah, it's pretty much an F... but who cares, did you listen to the rest of the performance?

[anutamiro]

@MrAnimeFreak777 yes, he is out of tune, but it does not make it any less great, because the purpose of music, to express their soul, and not to get in tune

[truediabolique69]

@anutamiro Not the first time he played out of tune.

[bluemusicdude]

That was an epic hair flip at 1:50!

[rowlus]

you noticed that? XD

[kuvhlubkojibleegxwbo]

not to be mean, but i want to know, is he still alive .

[violinist102]

unfortunetly no, he passed away in 2001.

[kuvhlubkojibleegxwbo]

ohhh i'm so sorry, i didn't know that.

[ffv45]

@violinist102 this is just simply the best version ever ! thank you soo much to sharing it ! but could you tell me where can i find the rest of it ?

[elzbieta52]

@kuvhlubkojibleegxwbo No he is not.

[MrPaulDbx]

@kuvhlubkojibleegxwbo

Désolé de vous décevoir mais il est décédé le 22/10/2001 à New York mais son geste et sa maturité restera parmi nous 

[MrPaulDbx]

@kuvhlubkojibleegxwbo 

[isym444]

OH my Days !!!

Mr Stern is so young in this vid !

[maggiemae70]

WOW!!!!---bravo

[MusicallyUndecided]

mine too, i've listened to several, i like sarah chang's more, but this is very similar to hers

[m1947n]

Thanks for this video

[zachdellinger]

some more good stern.

[val123k]

I love it

[calebcoker]

His intonation is fine at the begining, i've heard many performances of this piece and his intonation is fine...

[assindiastignani]

His intonation is "fine."??? He'd be so flattered to hear you say that. Isaac Stern's intonation was so good it hurt.

[jguar17944]

are you serious??

[GOHI11101995]

intonation????

[CornDoctor]

nonsense it is german

[rainbowfeather]

I love this!!!!

[ilviolinista]

Un gran y valeroso interprete de esta obra maestra, con un sonido inigualable.

Es su intrepretacion de este concierto la que mas me gusta. Gracias por subirlo.

[CSimeviolin]

R.I.P MAESTRO (ISAAC STERN)

[SpanishEyedDesi]

i met his son!

his son is an AMAZINGGGGGGGGGG conductor!

i did a side by side rehearsal with his orchestra, the Iris Chamber Orchestra. BEST rehearsal i have ever experienced.

we worked on Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony

[gugeekatie]

kinda out of tune...

but beautifulll :))

[vlhere]

ya i guess when he hit the high notes in the opening theme....

[hnk777]

Where abouts is it out of tune?

[iamemod]

the beginning, but i think it's the clip quality. stern would never play out of tune.

[violinmusicfan]

I dont think so. its not that uncommon for even world-class violinists to make small and random technical errors whether its being very slightly out of tune or briefly touching the other strings.

[robertik1234]

Fantastic Stern)))))

[calloffthedogs]

Haitink - such a master on the podium. One of the very finest. Stern - not too bad either. :)

[Sinfoniette]

Don't think Haitink is conducting here.

[robertik1234]

bravo maestro Stern)))))

[ik3333]

can someone tell me what hall it is performed at? the organ seems beautiful. perhaps some of you would recognize the hall, but i do not.

[moulemouli]

it is the Concertgebouw (on the Museeumplein of Amsterdam, Netherlands).

[stradivari87]

The Guarneri of Stern is the violin I love most.

According to me is the perfect model for violin, along with that of Kogan (who is wonderful in the same way) ...

[crazy77town]

at least a video with the whole concerto....

[violinist102]

If i had the whole concerto i would have posted it. I had the second half but it didnt save properly so i couldn't post it.

[davidj1011]

hi, do you still have the 2nd part? what do you mean it didn't save properly?

[mayuoka1001]

amazing video.