Isaac Stern - The Complete Columbia Analogue Recordings - Sony: 19439724252 - 75 CDs

Release Date: 3rd Jul 2020
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DISC 1: Tchaikovsky · Wieniawski: Violin Concertos I Hilsberg · Kurtz

DISC 2: Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 26 · Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto I Zakin · Ormandy

DISC 3: Violin Favorites I Zakin · Levant · Waxman

DISC 4: Prades Festival – Bach I Tabuteau · Schneider · Casals · Wummer · Istomin

DISC 5: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 · Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 I Zakin

DISC 6: Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 1 · Franck: Violin Sonata I Zakin

DISC 7: Brahms · Sibelius: Violin Concertos I Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · Beecham

DISC 8: Mozart: Sinfonia concertante · Piano Quartet I Primrose · Casals · Istomin

DISC 9: Vignettes for Violin I Zakin

DISC 10: Casals Festival at Prades I Schneider · Katims · Thomas · Tortelier · Hess

DISC 11: Casals Festival at Prades I Schneider · Katims · Thomas · Foley · Casals

DISC 12: Casals Festival at Prades I Schneider · Katims · Tortelier · Casals

DISC 13: Casals Festival at Prades I Hess · Casals

DISC 14: Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas I Zakin

DISC 15: C. P. E. Bach · J. S. Bach · Handel · Tartini: Violin Sonatas I Zakin

DISC 16: /17 Brahms: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 2 & 3 · F.A.E Sonata I Zakin

DISC 18: Vivaldi · Bach: Violin Concertos I Oistrakh · Ormandy

DISC 19: Lalo: Symphonie espagnole · Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 I Ormandy

DISC 20: Bernstein: Serenade I Symphony of the Air · Bernstein

DISC 21: Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 · Saint-Saëns · Ravel I Ormandy

DISC 22: Prokofiev: Violin Concertos I Mitropoulos · Bernstein

DISC 23: Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 I New York Philharmonic · Bernstein

DISC 24: Tchaikovsky · Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos I Ormandy

DISC 25: Beethoven: Violin Concerto I New York Philharmonic · Bernstein

DISC 26: Franck · Debussy: Violin Sonatas I Zakin

DISC 27: Brahms: Violin Concerto · Double Concerto I Rose · Ormandy · Walter

DISC 28: Vivaldi: Concertos for 2 Violins I Oistrakh · Ormandy

DISC 29: Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1 · Viotti: Violin Concerto No. 22 I Ormandy

DISC 30: Stravinsky: Concerto in D · Symphony in 3 Movements I Stravinsky

DISC 31: Bartók: Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2 · Berg: Violin Concerto I Bernstein

DISC 32: None but the Lonely Heart I Columbia Symphony Orchestra · Katims

DISC 33: Brahms: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 3 I Zakin

DISC 34: Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 5 “Turkish” I Szell

DISC 35: Prokofiev: Violin Concertos I The Philadelphia Orchestra · Ormandy

DISC 36: Barber · Hindemith: Violin Concertos I New York Philharmonic · Bernstein

DISC 37: Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 I Istomin · Rose

DISC 38: Bloch: Baal Shem · Violin Sonata No. 1 I Zakin

DISC 39: Brahms: Double Concerto · Beethoven: Triple Concerto I Rose · Istomin · Ormandy

DISC 40: Dvořák: Violin Concerto · Romance I The Philadelphia Orchestra · Ormandy

DISC 41: Bach: Violin Concertos · Concerto for Oboe and Violin I Gomberg · Bernstein

DISC 42: /43 Brahms: Piano Trios Nos. 1, 2 & 3 I Istomin · Rose

DISC 44: Lalo: Symphonie espagnole · Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 I Ormandy

DISC 45: haTikvah on Mt. Scopus I Friedland · Davrath · Tourel · Bernstein

DISC 46: Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 · Sinfonia concertante I Trampler · Szell

DISC 47: Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 · Haydn: Piano Trio No. 10 I Istomin · Rose

DISC 48: -51 Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios I Istomin · Rose

DISC 52: Sibelius: Violin Concerto · Karelia Suite I Ormandy

DISC 53: Mozart: Flute Quartets I Rampal · Schneider · Rose

DISC 54: Bartók: Violin Sonatas · Webern: 4 Pieces I Zakin · Rosen

DISC 55: Isaac Stern – Romance I Columbia Symphony Orchestra · Brieff

DISC 56: Mozart · Stamitz: Sinfonias concertantes I Zukerman · Barenboim

DISC 57: Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 · Clarinet (Violin) Sonata No. 2 I Zakin

DISC 58: Copland: Violin Sonata · Duo · Nonet I Copland · Columbia String Ensemble

DISC 59: Enescu: Violin Sonata No. 3 · Dvořák: 4 Romantic Pieces · F.A.E. Sonata I Zakin

DISC 60: Mozart: Concertone · Pleyel: Symphonie concertante I Zukerman · Barenboim

DISC 61: Mozart: Divertimento for Violin, Viola and Cello I Zukerman · Rose

DISC 62: Beethoven: Violin Concerto I New York Philharmonic · Barenboim

DISC 63: /64 Concert of the Century I Bernstein · Rostropovich · Horowitz · Fischer-Dieskau

DISC 65: Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3 · Chausson: Poème I Barenboim

DISC 66: Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni · Concertos for Violin and Flute I Rampal

DISC 67: Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 I English Chamber Orchestra · Schneider

DISC 68: Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto · Méditation I Rostropovich

DISC 69: Brahms: Violin Concerto I New York Philharmonic · Mehta

DISC 70: Rochberg: Violin Concerto I Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra · Previn

DISC 71: Penderecki: Violin Concerto I Minnesota Orchestra · Skrowaczewski

DISC 72: Mendelssohn: Piano Trios I Istomin · Rose

DISC 73: The Classic Melodies of Japan I Yamamoto · Hayakawa · Fuju · Naitoh

DISC 74: Isaac Stern – 60th Anniversary Celebration I New York Philharmonic · Perlman · Zukerman · Mehta

DISC 75: Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto · Bach: Violin Concertos I Bernstein · Schneider

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Presto Music Classical Podcast, Episode 6: Played in the USA with Rob Cowan

15th October 2020

Rob Cowan returns to the show to discuss several box-sets by three European émigré artists who settled in America - pianist Andor Foldes, conductor Antal Doráti, and violinist Isaac Stern.

Isaac Stern would have turned 100 in 2020. To mark this beloved artist’s centenary, Sony Classical is proud to present a new edition of his entire American Columbia analogue discography: 75 CDs of the recordings that established the Ukrainian-born American violinist’s worldwide reputation as one of the outstanding musical figures of his time.

Like so many other of history’s famous fiddlers, Stern was a child prodigy, entering the conservatory in San Francisco (where his family had settled) when he was only eight. In 1936, at 16, he made his recital debut and played with the San Francisco Symphony under Monteux and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Klemperer. His first New York appearance came in 1937, his European debut after the war, in 1948. By then, much of the world had already heard if not seen him, performing classical showpieces under Franz Waxman’s baton on the soundtrack of the popular 1946 Warner Bros. film Humoresque. An album of selections from the movie, first issued by Columbia on 78s in 1947, appears on CD for the first time in this new set. They include Waxman’s Carmen Fantasy, a thrilling arrangement for Stern’s Hollywood debut.

The violinist’s earliest releases, beginning in 1946, already included the indispensable concertos of Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Wieniawski, Brahms and others, works he would revisit in the studio at various stages of his career. One telling example: Stern’s 1951 recording of the Sibelius concerto, with Beecham conducting the Royal Philharmonic, immediately was held up as a rival to Heifetz’s iconic prewar recording, also under Beecham. A recent survey of Sibelius recordings in the leading string magazine, The Strad, declares that the young Stern’s tone already burns in 1951, then extols his second recording, made in stereo with Ormandy and the Philadelphia in 1969: Stern is even more intense, more pointed, more rhythmically incisive in the outer movements, retaining and refining his total command over the sustained line in the second movement. Everyone in the session is digging in, and the sound is a miracle of balance; it hasn’t aged a day.

Needless to say, the new collection holds even more than Stern’s acclaimed recordings of virtually every major violin concerto in the repertoire, from Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart to Prokofiev, Bartók and Berg, with conductors including Mitropoulos, Walter, Szell and, above all, Ormandy and Bernstein - not to mention Stravinsky’s concerto under the composer’s baton, and newer specimens created expressly for Stern by Penderecki and Rochberg.

Also on full display is Stern’s extraordinary love and affinity for chamber music: much of the sonata repertoire explored with his longtime preferred accompanist, pianist Alexander Zakin, including the first time on CD for their mono recordings of violin sonatas by Mozart, Franck, Brahms (all three) and Bartók; the great piano trios surveyed with his regular partners Leonard Rose and Eugene Istomin; and treasured collaborations with Pablo Casals and his festival ensembles that featured such distinguished players as Alexander Schneider, Milton Katims, Paul Tortelier and Myra Hess - including the first CD releases of the Brahms Second String Quintet and Schumann Piano Quintet from 1952. Like that Sibelius recording and so many others in this vast new Isaac Stern edition, they haven’t aged a day.

Isaac Stern - The Complete Columbia Analogue Recordings

75 CDs

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Presto Music Classical Podcast, Episode 6: Played in the USA with Rob Cowan

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