What a wonderful performance! He gets more out of the violin than any other player I have heard! His Chaconne is very special! Thanks for posting! 🥰💐🌺🌹🎈🦋🍁🎻🎶🍀💥😀👍
Every version gives me something unique and all translations are impossible achievements… at least to me… this peace is unbelievable and the heaven itself. Thank you for sharing. Amazing performance!
Stern brings out the voicing so brilliantly in Bach's Chaconne. We can clearly hear two violins being performed on one instrument! He is also very sensitive to the dynamics, sometimes strong and bold, other times soft like a hymn. He makes each variation a new episode of technical wonder. I was standing backstage at a Los Angeles Philharmonic concert with Isaac Stern many years ago. My viola teacher Jerry Epstein was in that orchestra, so I was allowed backstage even though I wasn't performing. Stern was a very emotional person. You can see that in his performance of Bach with tears in his eyes as he plays this beautiful masterpiece.
That was emotional, anyone without a tear after that is made of stone. I followed along in the score, some notes are shortened due to the instrument but what a performance. It's the pinnacle of violin music and forever. Bach was for sure inspired by Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer writing this piece.
I keep coming back to this. so much passion, emotion and technical brilliance in the performance. He just draws the most heartbreaking, powerful, yet sweet sound out of that violin.
This is by far my favorite version of this piece! Especially after playing it myself, I have to praise his phrasing because of it's uniformity. The way he shortens some notes and the phrasing itself remains the same in literally every variation! I also enjoy Itzhak Perlman or Nathan Milstein, but Stern played it just brilliant.
Коли слухаю Чакону впевнений, що неперевершеним є сам Бах. В той же час мене дивує, що кожен з названих виконавців є теж неперевершеним. Отже, немає межі удосконалення в майстерності виконання. Є лише одна межа: Й.- С.- Бах.
Стерн вне сомнения останется выдающимся исполнителем для 20-го века...радостно, что привелось хоть единожды повидать его в Москве в июле 1982 г. на конкурсе Чайковского.
Isaac Stern was in Dallas the day JFK died,he changed his concert performance to play this music in honour of JFK,he asked the audience not to applaud.He finished and returned to New York.What a moving event it would have been.Regards,Roger.
This is my first visit to this post. Hope you're still here. What an incredible comment. Such a perfect piece of music for the event. I wonder if anything was ever noted in any of the major newspapers or magazines about that.
Stern had a refind understanding of Bach at a young age. I play the Chaconne on guitar, I speak from a prejudiced position. It fits the guitar like it was written for it.
une version de la transcription par buzoni de la chaconne interprétée par Hélène Grimaud m'a inspiré un titre (chaconandalouse) sur le CD "la grenouille chante le blues". Quel beau voyage . . . . .
It's fucking amazing. I don't believe in any god, Bach would be the only one who could make me doubt. Plus, I'm a decent fiddler, not a violinist. I'd give gladly half the life I've left - and I'm 50 - for to play like Stern. Only for meself. That's Bach.