Isaac Stern , born the July 21st 1920 with Kremenets (Ukraine) and dead the September 22nd 2001 with New York, is a American Violoniste, one of the most famous representatives of the first generation of musicians entirely trained with the the United States.

Biography

It is one year old when its family settles with San Francisco. It receives his mother her first lessons of music. At eight years, it enters to the Academy of San Francisco where it studies the violin with Nahum Blinder. February 18th 1936, for its first public concert, it interprets the Concerto for violin n° 3 of Camille Saint-Saëns with the Symphony orchestra of San Francisco under the direction of Pierre Monteux.

In 1950, it meets Pablo Casals with the Festival of Prades which makes him discover the universe of the Chamber music; it will also play there with the hautboïste Marcel Tabuteau the K.370 quartet and the concerto for oboe and violin BWV 1060 of Bach. In 1961, it founds a famous trio with the Pianiste Eugene Istomin and the Violoncelliste Leonard Pink, with which it will occur during more than one score of years.

In 1960, to the head of an support group, it is opposed, successfully, with the demolition Carnegie Hall with New York. In 1996, the large auditorium of Carnegie will be renamed in its honor.

Engaged musician, it does not hesitate to put the music at the service of his convictions, testifies to them his rounds in Soviet Union into full Cold war, his voyage in China the shortly after the Cultural revolution (he was the first Western musician to accept the invitation of the Chinese government), its first stay in Germany after having refused during years to occur there, his active engagement for Israel at the sides of Golda Meir and David Ben Gourion or the famous recital given to Jerusalem into full war with the Gulf in front of a public equipped with gas masks.

He also discovered and supported many young talents among which Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Shlomo Mintz.

Its instruments of predilection were always the violins of Guarnerius del Gesù, first of all the Vicomte of Panette (1737) acquired in 1947 then the ex-Ysaÿe (1740) acquired in 1965. It also had two Guadagnini, a Vuillaume of 1846, the Tsar , a Bergonzi and a Stradivarius of 1721, the Kruze .

Repertory

Stern is famous for the excellence of its recordings. It published the integral of the concertos of Brahms, Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn as well as more modern works of type-setters such as Samuel Barber, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinski and Leonard Bernstein.

In 1995 and 1996, Sony Classical made appear a series of four boxes entitled Isaac Stern, has Life in Music where the near total of its discographic production is gathered as soloist, chambrist and concert performer.

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