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Isaac Stern: The Complete Columbia Analogue Recordings

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Number of Discs: 75

Release Date: 3rd July 2020

Contents

Works

Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel

Violin Sonata in G minor, H542.5

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV1043
Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor, BWV1060
Trio Sonata in G major, BWV1038
Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, BWV1041
Violin Concerto no.2 in E major, BWV1042
Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV1023
Violin Sonata no.3 in E major, BWV1016

Barber, Samuel

Violin Concerto, op.14

Bartok, Bela

Rhapsody no.1 for violin and orchestra, BB94b
Violin Concerto no.1, Sz 36 BB48a
Violin Concerto no.2, Sz112 BB117
Violin Sonata no.1, Sz75 BB84, op.21
Violin Sonata no.2, Sz76 BB85

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Leonore Overture no.3 in C major, op.72b
Piano Trios (complete)
Triple Concerto in C major for piano, violin and cello, op.56
Violin Concerto in D major, op.61
Violin Sonata no.7 in C minor, op.30 no.2

Benjamin, Arthur

Jamaican Rumba (arr. for violin and orchestra)

Berg, Alban

Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel'

Bernstein, Leonard

Serenade after Plato's 'Symposium'

Bloch, Ernest

Baal Shem
Violin Sonata no.1 in A minor

Borodin, Alexander

String Quartet no.2 in D major
» III Notturno: Andante (arr. for violin and orchestra)

Brahms, Johannes

Clarinet Sonata no.2 in E flat major, op.120 no.2
Double Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, op.102
Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1
» no.5 in G minor (arr. for violin and orchestra)
Piano Trio no.1 in B major, op.8
Piano Trio no.2 in C major, op.87
Piano Trio no.3 in C minor, op.101
String Quintet no.2 in G major, op.111
String Sextet no.1 in B flat major, op.18
Violin Concerto in D major, op.77
Violin Sonata no.1 in G major, op.78
Violin Sonata no.2 in A major, op.100
Violin Sonata no.3 in D minor, op.108

Bruch, Max

Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor, op.26

Chausson, Ernest

Poeme, op.25

Chopin, Frederic

Nocturnes (21)
» no.2 in E flat major, op.9 no.2

Copland, Aaron

Duo for flute and piano
Nonet for strings
Rodeo (Four Dance Episodes)
» Hoe-Down
» Hoe-Down (arr. for violin and orchestra)
Violin Sonata

Debussy, Claude

Preludes (12), Book 1
» no.8 La fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair) (violin and piano)
Suite bergamasque
» III Clair de Lune (arr. for violin and orchestra)
Violin Sonata in G minor, L148

Dinicu, Grigoras

Hora staccato

Dvorak, Antonin

Humoresques (8), op.101 B187
» no.7 in G flat major
» no.7 in G flat major (violin and orchestra)
Romance in F minor, op.11
Romantic Pieces (4), op.75
Slavonic Dances: Series I, op.46 B83
» no.2 in E minor
Slavonic Dances: Series II, op.72 B147
» no.2 in E minor
Violin Concerto in A minor, op.53

Enescu, George

Violin Sonata no.3 in A minor, op.25

Falla, Manuel de

Suite populaire espagnole

Faure, Gabriel

Berceuse in D major, op.16

Foster, Stephen

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (arr. for violin and orchestra)

Franck, Cesar

Violin Sonata in A major

Gershwin, George

Porgy and Bess
» Bess you is my woman now (arr. for violin and orchestra)

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
» Dance of the Blessed Spirits

Handel, George Frideric

Messiah, HWV56
» Hallelujah Chorus
Violin Sonata in D major, HWV371

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Piano Trio no.23 in E flat major, Hob.XV:10
Violin Concerto no.1 in C major, Hob.VIIa:1

Hindemith, Paul

Violin Concerto
Violin Sonata in C major

Hirota, Ryutaro

Shikararete (Scolded)

Kreisler, Fritz

Liebesleid (arr. for violin and orchestra)
Schon Rosmarin

Lalo, Edouard

Symphonie espagnole in D minor, op.21

Leclair, Jean-Marie

Violin Sonatas (12), op.9
» no.3 in D major: Sarabande & Tambourin (arr. Pablo de Sarasate)

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.2 in C minor 'Resurrection'
» V In Tempo des Scherzos

Mendelssohn, Felix

Gesange (6), op.34
» no.2 Auf Flugeln des Gesanges (arr. for violin and piano)
Piano Trio in C minor, op.66
Piano Trio in D minor, op.49
Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64

Milhaud, Darius

Saudades do Brasil (12) for piano, op.67
» no.8 Tijuca

Motoori, Nagayo

Nanatsu no Ko (Seven baby crows)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Adagio for violin and orchestra in E major, K261
Concertone in C major for 2 violins and orchestra, K190
Divertimento in E flat major, K563
Flute Quartet no.1 in D major, K285
Flute Quartet no.2 in G major, K285a
Flute Quartet no.3 in C major, K285b
Flute Quartet no.4 in A major, K298
Piano Quartet no.2 in E flat major, K493
Rondo for violin and orchestra in C major, K373
Serenade no.7 in D major, K250 'Haffner'
» IV Rondo
Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola in E flat major, K364
Violin Concerto no.1 in B flat major, K207
Violin Concerto no.2 in D major, K211
Violin Concerto no.3 in G major, K216
Violin Concerto no.4 in D major, K218
Violin Concerto no.5 in A major, K219 'Turkish'
Violin Sonata no.26 in B flat major, K378

Multiple composers

FAE Sonata (Dietrich/Brahms/Schumann)

Mussorgsky, Modest

Sorochintsy Fair: Hopak

Novacek, Ottokar

Perpetuum mobile, op.5 no.4

Penderecki, Krzysztof

Violin Concerto no.1

Pleyel, Ignaz

Symphonie Concertante in B flat major, B112

Prokofiev, Sergei

Romeo and Juliet: Pieces (10) for piano, op.75
» no.5 Masks
» no.9 Dance of the girls with lilies
Violin Concerto no.1 in D major, op.19
Violin Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.63
Violin Sonata no.1 in F minor, op.80
Violin Sonata no.2 in D major, op.94a

Pugnani, Gaetano

Violin Sonata in D major, op.8 no.3
» Largo espressivo

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Cello Sonata in G minor, op.19
Songs (14), op.34
» no.14 Vocalise (arr. for violin and piano)

Ravel, Maurice

Tzigane

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

The Tale of Tsar Saltan
» Flight of the Bumblebee
» Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. for violin and orchestra)

Rochberg, George

Violin Concerto

Rubinstein, Anton

Soirees a St Petersbourg (6), op.44
» no.1 Romance in E flat major 'The night'

Saint-Saens, Camille

Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, op.28
Violin Concerto no.3 in B minor, op.61

Sarasate, Pablo de

Caprice basque, op.24
Zigeunerweisen, op.20

Satie, Erik

Gymnopedies (3)
» III Lent et grave

Schubert, Francois

Bagatelles, op.13
» no.9 L'Abeille

Schubert, Franz

Ave Maria, D839 (Ellens Gesang III, op.52 no.6) (arr. for violin and orchestra)
Piano Trio no.1 in B flat major, op.99 D898
Piano Trio no.2 in E flat major, op.100 D929
Schwanengesang, D957
» Standchen
String Quintet in C major, op.163 D956

Schumann, Robert

Dichterliebe, op.48
Piano Quintet in E flat major, op.44
Waldszenen, op.82
» no.7 Vogel als Prophet

Sibelius, Jean

Karelia Suite, op.11
Violin Concerto in D minor, op.47

Stamitz, Carl

Sinfonia Concertante in D major for violin, viola and orchestra

Stravinsky, Igor

Symphony in three movements
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu): Suite
» Berceuse
Violin Concerto in D major

Szymanowski, Karol

King Roger
» Roxana's Song (arr. for violin and piano)
Mythes (3), op.30
» I La fontaine d'Arethuse

Taki, Rentaro

Kojo no Tsuki (Moon over the desolate castle)

Tartini, Giuseppe

Violin Sonatas (12) and a Pastorale, op.1
» no.10 in G minor 'Didone abbandonata'

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Morceaux (6), op.51
» no.6 Valse sentimentale in F minor
Piano Trio in A minor, op.50 'In Memory of a Great Artist'
» I Pezzo elegiaco
Romances (6), op.6
» no.6 None but the Lonely Heart (arr. violin and orchestra)
Sacred Choruses (9) (1885)
» Our Father
Serenade melancolique in B flat minor, op.26
Souvenir d'un lieu cher, op.42
» no.1 Meditation
Violin Concerto in D major, op.35

Traditional

Greensleeves (arr. for violin and orchestra)
Imayoh
Sakura Sakura (Cherry Blossom)
Tohryanse
Zui-zui-zukkorobashi

Viotti, Giovanni Battista

Violin Concerto no.22 in A minor, G97

Vivaldi, Antonio

Concerto for 2 violins and strings in C minor, R509
Concerto for 2 violins and strings in D major, R512
Concerto for 2 violins and strings in D minor, R514
Concerto for 2 violins in A minor, RV522
Concerto for 2 violins in G minor, RV517
Concerto for 3 violins in F major, RV551
The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni)

Wagner, Richard

Albumblatt 'In das Album der Furstin M.', WWV94
Tristan und Isolde
» Isolde's Liebestod (Act 3) (arr. for violin, piano and orchestra)

Waxman, Franz

Carmen Fantasy

Webern, Anton

Pieces (4) for violin and piano, op.7

Wieniawski, Henryk

Violin Concerto no.2 in D minor, op.22

Yamada, Kosaku

Chugoku chihono komori no uta (Chugoku Region)
Sunamaya

Yatsuhashi, Kengyo

Rokudan no Shirabe

Yoshizawa, Kengyo

Chidori no Kyoku

Artists

Isaac Stern (violin)
Pablo Casals
Aaron Copland
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Madeline Foley
Myra Hess
Vladimir Horowitz
Eugene Istomin
Milton Katims
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Leonard Rose
Mstislav Rostropovich
Alexander Schneider
Milton Thomas
Paul Tortelier
Alexander Zakin
Pinchas Zukerman

Conductors

Daniel Barenboim
Leonard Bernstein
Aaron Copland
Zubin Mehta
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Eugene Ormandy
Igor Stravinsky
George Szell
Bruno Walter

Works

Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel

Violin Sonata in G minor, H542.5

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV1043
Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor, BWV1060
Trio Sonata in G major, BWV1038
Violin Concerto no.1 in A minor, BWV1041
Violin Concerto no.2 in E major, BWV1042
Violin Sonata in E minor, BWV1023
Violin Sonata no.3 in E major, BWV1016

Barber, Samuel

Violin Concerto, op.14

Bartok, Bela

Rhapsody no.1 for violin and orchestra, BB94b
Violin Concerto no.1, Sz 36 BB48a
Violin Concerto no.2, Sz112 BB117
Violin Sonata no.1, Sz75 BB84, op.21
Violin Sonata no.2, Sz76 BB85

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Leonore Overture no.3 in C major, op.72b
Piano Trios (complete)
Triple Concerto in C major for piano, violin and cello, op.56
Violin Concerto in D major, op.61
Violin Sonata no.7 in C minor, op.30 no.2

Benjamin, Arthur

Jamaican Rumba (arr. for violin and orchestra)

Berg, Alban

Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel'

Bernstein, Leonard

Serenade after Plato's 'Symposium'

Bloch, Ernest

Baal Shem
Violin Sonata no.1 in A minor

Borodin, Alexander

String Quartet no.2 in D major
» III Notturno: Andante (arr. for violin and orchestra)

Brahms, Johannes

Clarinet Sonata no.2 in E flat major, op.120 no.2
Double Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, op.102
Hungarian Dances (21), WoO1
» no.5 in G minor (arr. for violin and orchestra)
Piano Trio no.1 in B major, op.8
Piano Trio no.2 in C major, op.87
Piano Trio no.3 in C minor, op.101
String Quintet no.2 in G major, op.111
String Sextet no.1 in B flat major, op.18
Violin Concerto in D major, op.77
Violin Sonata no.1 in G major, op.78
Violin Sonata no.2 in A major, op.100
Violin Sonata no.3 in D minor, op.108

Bruch, Max

Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor, op.26

Chausson, Ernest

Poeme, op.25

Chopin, Frederic

Nocturnes (21)
» no.2 in E flat major, op.9 no.2

Copland, Aaron

Duo for flute and piano
Nonet for strings
Rodeo (Four Dance Episodes)
» Hoe-Down
» Hoe-Down (arr. for violin and orchestra)
Violin Sonata

Debussy, Claude

Preludes (12), Book 1
» no.8 La fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair) (violin and piano)
Suite bergamasque
» III Clair de Lune (arr. for violin and orchestra)
Violin Sonata in G minor, L148

Dinicu, Grigoras

Hora staccato

Dvorak, Antonin

Humoresques (8), op.101 B187
» no.7 in G flat major
» no.7 in G flat major (violin and orchestra)
Romance in F minor, op.11
Romantic Pieces (4), op.75
Slavonic Dances: Series I, op.46 B83
» no.2 in E minor
Slavonic Dances: Series II, op.72 B147
» no.2 in E minor
Violin Concerto in A minor, op.53

Enescu, George

Violin Sonata no.3 in A minor, op.25

Falla, Manuel de

Suite populaire espagnole

Faure, Gabriel

Berceuse in D major, op.16

Foster, Stephen

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (arr. for violin and orchestra)

Franck, Cesar

Violin Sonata in A major

Gershwin, George

Porgy and Bess
» Bess you is my woman now (arr. for violin and orchestra)

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
» Dance of the Blessed Spirits

Handel, George Frideric

Messiah, HWV56
» Hallelujah Chorus
Violin Sonata in D major, HWV371

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Piano Trio no.23 in E flat major, Hob.XV:10
Violin Concerto no.1 in C major, Hob.VIIa:1

Hindemith, Paul

Violin Concerto
Violin Sonata in C major

Hirota, Ryutaro

Shikararete (Scolded)

Kreisler, Fritz

Liebesleid (arr. for violin and orchestra)
Schon Rosmarin

Lalo, Edouard

Symphonie espagnole in D minor, op.21

Leclair, Jean-Marie

Violin Sonatas (12), op.9
» no.3 in D major: Sarabande & Tambourin (arr. Pablo de Sarasate)

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.2 in C minor 'Resurrection'
» V In Tempo des Scherzos

Mendelssohn, Felix

Gesange (6), op.34
» no.2 Auf Flugeln des Gesanges (arr. for violin and piano)
Piano Trio in C minor, op.66
Piano Trio in D minor, op.49
Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64

Milhaud, Darius

Saudades do Brasil (12) for piano, op.67
» no.8 Tijuca

Motoori, Nagayo

Nanatsu no Ko (Seven baby crows)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Adagio for violin and orchestra in E major, K261
Concertone in C major for 2 violins and orchestra, K190
Divertimento in E flat major, K563
Flute Quartet no.1 in D major, K285
Flute Quartet no.2 in G major, K285a
Flute Quartet no.3 in C major, K285b
Flute Quartet no.4 in A major, K298
Piano Quartet no.2 in E flat major, K493
Rondo for violin and orchestra in C major, K373
Serenade no.7 in D major, K250 'Haffner'
» IV Rondo
Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola in E flat major, K364
Violin Concerto no.1 in B flat major, K207
Violin Concerto no.2 in D major, K211
Violin Concerto no.3 in G major, K216
Violin Concerto no.4 in D major, K218
Violin Concerto no.5 in A major, K219 'Turkish'
Violin Sonata no.26 in B flat major, K378

Multiple composers

FAE Sonata (Dietrich/Brahms/Schumann)

Mussorgsky, Modest

Sorochintsy Fair: Hopak

Novacek, Ottokar

Perpetuum mobile, op.5 no.4

Penderecki, Krzysztof

Violin Concerto no.1

Pleyel, Ignaz

Symphonie Concertante in B flat major, B112

Prokofiev, Sergei

Romeo and Juliet: Pieces (10) for piano, op.75
» no.5 Masks
» no.9 Dance of the girls with lilies
Violin Concerto no.1 in D major, op.19
Violin Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.63
Violin Sonata no.1 in F minor, op.80
Violin Sonata no.2 in D major, op.94a

Pugnani, Gaetano

Violin Sonata in D major, op.8 no.3
» Largo espressivo

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Cello Sonata in G minor, op.19
Songs (14), op.34
» no.14 Vocalise (arr. for violin and piano)

Ravel, Maurice

Tzigane

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

The Tale of Tsar Saltan
» Flight of the Bumblebee
» Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. for violin and orchestra)

Rochberg, George

Violin Concerto

Rubinstein, Anton

Soirees a St Petersbourg (6), op.44
» no.1 Romance in E flat major 'The night'

Saint-Saens, Camille

Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, op.28
Violin Concerto no.3 in B minor, op.61

Sarasate, Pablo de

Caprice basque, op.24
Zigeunerweisen, op.20

Satie, Erik

Gymnopedies (3)
» III Lent et grave

Schubert, Francois

Bagatelles, op.13
» no.9 L'Abeille

Schubert, Franz

Ave Maria, D839 (Ellens Gesang III, op.52 no.6) (arr. for violin and orchestra)
Piano Trio no.1 in B flat major, op.99 D898
Piano Trio no.2 in E flat major, op.100 D929
Schwanengesang, D957
» Standchen
String Quintet in C major, op.163 D956

Schumann, Robert

Dichterliebe, op.48
Piano Quintet in E flat major, op.44
Waldszenen, op.82
» no.7 Vogel als Prophet

Sibelius, Jean

Karelia Suite, op.11
Violin Concerto in D minor, op.47

Stamitz, Carl

Sinfonia Concertante in D major for violin, viola and orchestra

Stravinsky, Igor

Symphony in three movements
The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu): Suite
» Berceuse
Violin Concerto in D major

Szymanowski, Karol

King Roger
» Roxana's Song (arr. for violin and piano)
Mythes (3), op.30
» I La fontaine d'Arethuse

Taki, Rentaro

Kojo no Tsuki (Moon over the desolate castle)

Tartini, Giuseppe

Violin Sonatas (12) and a Pastorale, op.1
» no.10 in G minor 'Didone abbandonata'

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Morceaux (6), op.51
» no.6 Valse sentimentale in F minor
Piano Trio in A minor, op.50 'In Memory of a Great Artist'
» I Pezzo elegiaco
Romances (6), op.6
» no.6 None but the Lonely Heart (arr. violin and orchestra)
Sacred Choruses (9) (1885)
» Our Father
Serenade melancolique in B flat minor, op.26
Souvenir d'un lieu cher, op.42
» no.1 Meditation
Violin Concerto in D major, op.35

Traditional

Greensleeves (arr. for violin and orchestra)
Imayoh
Sakura Sakura (Cherry Blossom)
Tohryanse
Zui-zui-zukkorobashi

Viotti, Giovanni Battista

Violin Concerto no.22 in A minor, G97

Vivaldi, Antonio

Concerto for 2 violins and strings in C minor, R509
Concerto for 2 violins and strings in D major, R512
Concerto for 2 violins and strings in D minor, R514
Concerto for 2 violins in A minor, RV522
Concerto for 2 violins in G minor, RV517
Concerto for 3 violins in F major, RV551
The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni)

Wagner, Richard

Albumblatt 'In das Album der Furstin M.', WWV94
Tristan und Isolde
» Isolde's Liebestod (Act 3) (arr. for violin, piano and orchestra)

Waxman, Franz

Carmen Fantasy

Webern, Anton

Pieces (4) for violin and piano, op.7

Wieniawski, Henryk

Violin Concerto no.2 in D minor, op.22

Yamada, Kosaku

Chugoku chihono komori no uta (Chugoku Region)
Sunamaya

Yatsuhashi, Kengyo

Rokudan no Shirabe

Yoshizawa, Kengyo

Chidori no Kyoku

Artists

Isaac Stern (violin)
Pablo Casals
Aaron Copland
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Madeline Foley
Myra Hess
Vladimir Horowitz
Eugene Istomin
Milton Katims
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Leonard Rose
Mstislav Rostropovich
Alexander Schneider
Milton Thomas
Paul Tortelier
Alexander Zakin
Pinchas Zukerman

Conductors

Daniel Barenboim
Leonard Bernstein
Aaron Copland
Zubin Mehta
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Eugene Ormandy
Igor Stravinsky
George Szell
Bruno Walter

About

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of legendary, 6-time Grammy winning violinist Isaac Stern (1920-2001), Sony Classical is proud to present a new edition of his entire American Columbia analogue discography: 75 CDs of the recordings that established the American violinist’s worldwide reputation as one of the outstanding musical figures of his time.

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. 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.

This stunning new collection includes 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: including 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.

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