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- 12 APR 2024
- 57 Songs
- ICONIC · 2022
- Violin Concerto (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, September 13, 1959) - Single · 2022
- Violin Concerto (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, November 2, 1958) - Single · 2022
- Introduction et Rondo capriccioso (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, April 26, 1964) - Single · 2022
- Dvorak: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81 & Piano Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 5 · 2019
- Schumann, Bach & Brahms: Music for Violin & Piano · 2016
- Schumann, Bach & Brahms: Music for Violin & Piano · 2016
- Schumann, Bach & Brahms: Music for Violin & Piano · 2016
- Schumann, Bach & Brahms: Music for Violin & Piano · 2016
- Schumann, Bach & Brahms: Music for Violin & Piano · 2016
Essential Albums
- As did so many of his works, Beethoven’s only violin concerto, premiered in 1806, changed the scale and perception of the form; its first movement, at about 25 minutes in duration, would accommodate some of Mozart’s in their entirety. But it’s not just about length. Beethoven’s work has symphonic ambitions, and its message is altogether weightier. It is, perhaps, the first great Romantic violin concerto, and its masterpiece status comes across impressively in Itzhak Perlman and Carlo Maria Giulini’s Gramophone- and Grammy Award-winning 1981 recording. Playing with his customary style and flair, Perlman is wonderfully expressive yet also highly dramatic, and Giulini is a superb partner. A classic recording.
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About Itzhak Perlman
When the 13-year-old Itzhak Perlman made his sensational American television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958, performing the finale of Mendelssohn’s E minor Concerto, the essentials of his distinctive playing style were remarkably already in place: the look of sublime contentment when playing, the relaxed sweep of his bowing arm (the little finger often nonchalantly raised), the seemingly effortless accuracy of his playing fingers, his interpretative warmth and charm, and a luxurious sound of soulful intensity. Born in Tel Aviv in 1945, Perlman overcame the effects of contracting polio aged four (he always plays seated) by teaching himself the violin. Lessons with Rivka Goldgart in Tel Aviv and (from 1958) Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School in New York sensitively nurtured his extraordinary gifts, so that by the time he made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1963, he was already a world-class virtuoso. His natural charisma and can-do approach caught the zeitgeist of the ’60s and found its natural place playing alongside fabled pianist-conductors Daniel Barenboim and Vladimir Ashkenazy, violinist-violist Pinchas Zukerman and cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Perlman’s concerto and chamber music recordings reflect the extraordinary breadth of his repertoire, from Bach and Beethoven to Shostakovich and Berg. Yet perhaps his greatest gift is to make music on the lighter side of the creative spectrum—including three discs devoted to Fritz Kreisler and several more (two titled Encores) to virtuoso miniatures—sound like minted gold.
- HOMETOWN
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- BORN
- 31 August 1945
- GENRE
- Classical