Composer: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Béla Bartók
Performer: Isaac Stern
Orchestra: Swiss Festival Orchestra
Conductor: Lorin Maazel, Ernest Ansermet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Audite
Catalogue: AUDITE95624
Release: 2013
Size: 229 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
01. I. Allegro moderato – Moderato assai
02. II. Canzonetta: Andante
03. III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz 112
04. I. Allegro non troppo
05. II. Andante tranquillo
06. III. Allegro molto
“To make the violin speak”, was Isaac Stern’s succinct artistic maxim. These live recordings, made in 1956 and 1958 at the Lucerne Festival, exemplify how Stern realised his concept of musical rhetoric on the concert platform. Stern never performed in Germany; in Switzerland, however, he gave concerts frequently. He was a regular guest at the Lucerne Festival, appearing ten times between 1948 and 1988, both as soloist and as chamber musician, including with his Piano Trio alongside Eugene Istomin and Leonard Rose. Only a small number of live recordings with Isaac Stern exist. The Lucerne recordings of the Tchaikovsky and Bartók Concertos, issued here for the first time, are thus of particular documentary value, as well as important elements within the extensive discography of the violinist who died in 2001.