A moving evening
I enjoyed listening to and seeing old favourites performing. The choice of music was middle range and easy to listen to. The cello player on the right had us both rolling in the isle. Well worth the money.
Quite magical playing
I cannot tell you why so many of the world's finest violinists (and pianists) are Jewish but if you want to hear some of the very best then this is a disc to get. Starting with Isaac Stern's very moving speech it never lets up. The music is conservative and intended to delight the ear and the same goes for the phenomenal fiddling! The disc starts off with a beautiful rendering of the Hatikvah, the National Anthem of Israel (surely one of the most moving of all National Anthems) as an unlisted introduction and then straight into Isaac Stern's speech. The video is almost certainly not from an HD source but it has been given a good clean up and the camera work is skilled with easy viewing of the numerous fantastic players who turned out for this event. The sound is only stereo but very good. This is a wonderful set of performances and I doubt we will ever see so many fine violinists gathered together again. Not to be missed! I thought to deduct a star for the old recording but then the...
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