Editing Isaac Stern

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[[File:Isaac Stern - 1980.JPG|thumb|Stern at his 60th birthday concert at [[Lincoln Center]], 1980]]
'''Isaac Stern''' (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was an American violinist.<ref name="haaretz.com" />

Born in Ukraine, Stern moved to the United States when he was 14 months old. Stern performed both nationally and internationally, notably touring the [[Soviet Union]] and [[China]], and performing extensively in [[Israel]], a country to which he had close ties since shortly after its founding.

Stern received extensive recognition for his work, including winning the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] and six [[Grammys|Grammy Awards]], and being named to the French [[Legion of Honour]]. The Isaac Stern Auditorium at [[Carnegie Hall]] bears his name, due to his role in saving the venue from demolition in the 1960s.

==Biography==
[[File:Isaac Stern 1979b.jpg|thumb|Isaac Stern in 1975]]
The son of Solomon and Clara Stern,<ref name="Kozinn">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/nyregion/violinist-isaac-stern-dies-at-81-led-efforts-to-save-carnegie-hall.html?pagewanted=all | title=Violinist Isaac Stern Dies at 81; Led Efforts to Save Carnegie Hall | work=The New York Times | author=Allan Kozinn | date=2001-09-23 | access-date=2015-04-12}}</ref> Isaac Stern was born in [[Kremenets]], [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] (now [[Ukraine]]), into a [[Jewish]] family. He was 14 months old when his family moved to [[San Francisco]] in 1921. Both his parents were musical and his mother, who had studied at the [[Saint Petersburg Conservatory]], began teaching him the [[piano]] when he was six before switching her son to the [[violin]] when he was eight. In 1928, Stern’s parents enrolled him at the [[San Francisco Conservatory of Music]], where he studied until 1931 before going on to study briefly in New York with [[Louis Persinger]].<ref name="guard">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/sep/24/guardianobituaries|title=Isaac Stern|author=K Robert Schwarz|date=24 September 2001|work=The Guardian|access-date=30 January 2018|location=London}}</ref> He returned to the San Francisco Conservatory to study for five years with [[Naoum Blinder]], the concertmaster of the [[San Francisco Symphony]], to whom he said he owed the most.<ref name=mustimes>{{cite web | title=Isaac Stern 1920–2001 | url=http://www.musicaltimes.co.uk/archive/0104/stern.html | work=The Musical Times | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929025246/http://www.musicaltimes.co.uk/archive/0104/stern.html | archive-date=29 September 2006 | df=dmy-all }}</ref><!--Source please: "He felt proud to have been a student of [[Nahum Blinder]]."--> At his public début on February 18, 1936, aged 15, he played [[Camille Saint-Saëns|Saint-Saëns']] [[Violin Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)|Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor]] with the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of [[Pierre Monteux]]. Reflecting on his background, Stern once memorably quipped that cultural exchanges between the U.S. and Soviet Russia drew from the same city:

:: "They send us their Jews from [[Odessa]], and we send them our Jews from Odessa."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/11/arts/in-musical-odessa-playing-on-for-the-love-of-it.html | title=In Musical Odessa, Playing On for the Love of It | work=The New York Times | author=Michael Specter | date=1994-04-11 | access-date=2015-04-12}}</ref>

During [[World War II]], Stern was rejected from military service due to flat feet. He then joined the [[United Service Organizations]] and performed for US troops. During one such performance on [[Guadalcanal]], a Japanese soldier, mesmerized by his playing, sneaked into the audience of US personnel listening to his performance before sneaking back out.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Legendary Violinist Isaac Stern's Legacy Lives On After 100 Years|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2020/07/19/892757782/legendary-violinist-isaac-sterns-legacy-lives-on-after-100-years|access-date=2021-08-29|website=NPR.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=April 12|first=CHRIS PASLES|last2=Pt|first2=2000 12 Am|date=2000-04-12|title='Stern' Goes Beyond the Usual Musical Profile|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-12-ca-18541-story.html|access-date=2021-08-29|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref>

Stern toured the [[Soviet Union]] in 1951, the first American violinist to do so.  In 1967, Stern stated his refusal to return to the USSR until the Soviet regime allowed artists to enter and leave the country freely.  His only visit to Germany was in 1999, for a series of master classes, but he never performed publicly in Germany.<ref name="Kozinn" />

Stern was married three times.  His first marriage, in 1948 to ballerina [[Nora Kaye]], ended in divorce after 18 months, but the two of them remained friends.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20070235,00.html | title=Director Herb Ross and Ex-Ballerina Nora Kaye Know What a Turning Point Is | work=People | author=Kristin McMurran | date=1978-02-20 | access-date=2015-04-12}}</ref>  On August 17, 1951, he married Vera Lindenblit (1927–2015). They had three children together, including conductors [[Michael Stern (conductor)|Michael]] and [[David Stern (conductor)|David Stern]] and also Rabbi Shira Stern, one of the first female rabbis in the USA. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1994 after 43 years. In 1996, Stern married his third wife, Linda Reynolds.  His third wife, his three children, and his five grandchildren survived him.<ref name="Kozinn"/>

Stern died September 22, 2001, of heart failure in a Manhattan, New York, hospital after an extended stay.<ref name="Kozinn"/>

==Music career==
In 1940, Stern began performing with Russian-born pianist [[Alexander Zakin]], collaborating until 1977.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/16/obituaries/alexander-zakin-87-a-piano-accompanist.html|title=Alexander Zakin, 87, A Piano Accompanist|work=The New York Times|date=16 October 2011|access-date=18 December 2011}}</ref> Within musical circles, Stern became renowned both for his recordings and for championing certain younger players. Among his discoveries were cellists [[Yo-Yo Ma]] and [[Jian Wang (cellist)|Jian Wang]], and violinists [[Itzhak Perlman]] and [[Pinchas Zukerman]].

In the 1960s, he played a major role in saving New York City's [[Carnegie Hall]] from demolition, by organizing the Citizens' Committee to Save Carnegie Hall.  Following the purchase of Carnegie Hall by New York City, the Carnegie Hall Corporation was formed, and Stern was chosen as its first president, a title he held until his death.<ref name="Kozinn"/>  Carnegie Hall later named its main auditorium in his honor.<ref>{{cite news | title=Violinist Isaac Stern dies | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1559001.stm |work=BBC News | date=23 September 2001 | access-date=21 July 2007}}</ref>

Among Stern's many recordings are concertos by [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]], [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]], [[Jean Sibelius|Sibelius]],  [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]], and [[Antonio Vivaldi|Vivaldi]] and modern works by [[Samuel Barber|Barber]], [[Béla Bartók|Bartók]], [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]], [[Leonard Bernstein|Bernstein]], [[George Rochberg|Rochberg]], and [[Henri Dutilleux|Dutilleux]]. The Dutilleux concerto, entitled ''[[L'arbre des songes]]'' ["The Tree of Dreams"] was a 1985 commission by Stern himself. He also [[Dubbing (music)|dubbed]] actors' violin-playing in several films, such as [[Fiddler on the Roof (film)|the 1971 film adaptation]] of ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]''.

Stern served as musical advisor for the 1946 film ''[[Humoresque (1946 film)|Humoresque]]'', about a rising violin star and his patron, played respectively by [[John Garfield]] and [[Joan Crawford]]. He was also the featured violin soloist on the soundtrack for the film adaptation of ''Fiddler on the Roof''.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/dec/09/usa.arts | title=Children in court battle over Isaac Stern's estate | work=The Guardian | first=Dan | last=Glaister | date=2004-12-09 | access-date=2015-04-12}}</ref>  In 1999, he appeared in the film ''[[Music of the Heart]]'', along with [[Itzhak Perlman]] and several other famed violinists, with a youth orchestra led by [[Meryl Streep]] (the film was based on the true story of [[Roberta Guaspari]], a gifted violin teacher in [[Harlem]] who eventually took her musicians to play a concert in Carnegie Hall).

{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?153146-1/isaac-stern-first-79-years Interview with Stern on ''My First 79 Years'', 26 October 1999], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?154186-1/first-79-years ''Booknotes'' interview with Stern on ''My First 79 Years'', 23 January 2000], [[C-SPAN]]}}
In his autobiography, co-authored with [[Chaim Potok]], ''My First 79 Years'', Stern cited [[Nathan Milstein]] and [[Arthur Grumiaux]] as major influences on his style of playing.

He won Grammys for his work with [[Eugene Istomin]] and [[Leonard Rose]] in their famous chamber music trio in the 1960s and '70s, while also continuing his duo work with Alexander Zakin during this time. Stern recorded a series of piano quartets in the 1980s and 1990s with [[Emanuel Ax]], [[Jaime Laredo]] and Yo-Yo Ma, including those of [[List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart#Other chamber music|Mozart]], [[Quintet for Piano and Winds (Beethoven)|Beethoven]], [[Piano Quartet (Schumann)|Schumann]] and [[Piano Quartet No. 1 (Fauré)|Fauré]], winning another [[34th Grammy Awards#Classical|Grammy]] in 1992 for the [[List of compositions by Johannes Brahms by genre#Quartets|Brahms]] quartets Opp. 25 and 26.

In 1979, seven years after [[Richard Nixon]] made the [[1972 Nixon visit to China|first official visit]] by a US president to the country, [[China|the People's Republic of China]] offered Stern and pianist [[David Golub]] an unprecedented invitation to tour the country. While there, he collaborated with the China Central Symphony Society (now China National Symphony) under the direction of conductor [[Li Delun]]. Their visit was filmed and resulted in the [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning documentary, ''[[From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China]]''.

==Ties to Israel==
Stern maintained close ties with [[Israel]]. Stern began performing in the country in 1949.<ref name="haaretz.com">Noam Ben Zeev (1 November 2012), [http://www.haaretz.com/news/news-in-brief/news-in-brief.premium-1.473612 "New Tel Aviv street to honor Isaac Stern."] ''[[Haaretz]]'' Daily. Retrieved 6 June 2013.</ref> In 1973, he performed for wounded Israeli soldiers during the [[Yom Kippur War]]. During the 1991 [[Gulf War]] and Iraq's [[Scud|Scud missile]] attacks on Israel, he had been playing in the [[Jerusalem Theater]]. During his performance, an air raid siren sounded, causing the audience to panic. Stern then stepped onto the stage and began playing a movement of [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]]. The audience then calmed down, donned gas masks, and sat throughout the rest of his performance.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://articles.latimes.com/2001/sep/23/news/mn-48941/2 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715050132/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/sep/23/news/mn-48941/2 | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 15, 2012 | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Elaine | last=Woo | title=Isaac Stern, Violinist and Musical Envoy, Dies | date=23 September 2001}}</ref> Stern was a supporter of several educational projects in Israel, among them the America-Israel Foundation and the [[Jerusalem Music Center]].<ref name="haaretz.com"/>

==Instruments==
[[File:Isaac Stern 1979.jpg|thumb|Isaac Stern playing with one hand in 1979]]
Stern's favorite instrument was the [[Ysaÿe Guarnerius]], one of the violins produced by the [[Cremonese]] [[luthier]] [[Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù]].<ref>{{cite news | author=Jeff Bradley | title=Stern, Shostakovich, Gedda stories on shelves | url=http://extras.denverpost.com/books/music1205.htm  | work=The Denver Post | date=5 December 1999 | access-date=21 July 2007}}</ref>  It had previously been played by the violin virtuoso and composer [[Eugène Ysaÿe]].

Among other instruments, Stern played the "Kruse-Vormbaum" [[Stradivarius]] (1728), the "ex-Stern" Bergonzi (1733), the "Panette" Guarneri del Gesù (1737), a Michele Angelo Bergonzi (1739–1757), the "[[Arma Senkrah]]" Guadagnini (1750), a Giovanni Guadagnini (1754), a [[Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume|J. B. Vuillaume]] copy of the "Panette" Guarneri del Gesu of 1737 (c.1850), and the "ex-Nicolas I" J.B. Vuillaume (1840). He also owned two contemporary instruments by [[Samuel Zygmuntowicz]] and modern Italian [[Jago Peternella]] Violins.

In May 2003, Stern's collection of instruments, bows and musical ephemera was sold through [[Tarisio Auctions]]. The auction set a number of world records and was at the time the second highest grossing violin auction of all time, with total sales of over $3.3M.<ref>Keough, James. "Stern's Stars." ''Strings.'' August/September 2003, No. 112.</ref>

==Awards and commemoration==
[[File:Isaac Stern 1971.jpg|thumb|Isaac Stern with the Edison in 1971]]
* [[Sonning Award]] (1982; [[Denmark]])
* [[Wolf Prize]]
* [[Kennedy Center Honors]]  (1984)
* [[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)]] (1962, 1963, 1965, 1982)
* [[Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance]] (1971, 1992)
* [[National Medal of Arts]] (1991)<ref>[http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#91 Lifetime Honors – National Medal of Arts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304001626/http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#00 |date= 4 March 2010 }}</ref>
* [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] (1992)<ref>[http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=5112&year=1992&month=12 George Bush Presidential Library & Museum]</ref>
*Elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] (1995)<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Isaac+Stern&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-12-20|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>
* [[Polar Music Prize]] (2000; [[Sweden]])
* Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur (1990)
* Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society (1991)
* Carnegie Hall Midtown Manhattan, New York: main auditorium was named for Isaac Stern in 1997.

In 2012, a street in [[Tel Aviv]] was named for Stern.<ref name="haaretz.com" />

==Discography==
[[File:Bezalel schatz 002.jpg|thumb|[[Bezalel Schatz]] painting a portrait of Isaac Stern]]
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*1944
::Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 (with [[Alexander Schneider]], [[Milton Katims]], [[Milton Thomas]], [[Pablo Casals]] and [[Madeleine Foley]])

*1944
::[https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Trio_No.1%2C_Op.8_(Brahms%2C_Johannes)#716306 Brahms: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No. 1 in B Major, op. 8] (with [[Myra Hess]] and [[Pablo Casals]])

*1946
::Violin selections from the movie [[Humoresque (1946 film)]] with [[Oscar Levant]] on the piano, [[Columbia Masterworks Records]] set MM-657

*1951
::Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major (with [[Sir Thomas Beecham]] and the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]]), [[Columbia Records]]

*1952
::Bach: Partita in E Minor & G Minor for Violin and Piano, Sonata No.3 in E Major for Violin and Piano (with [[Alexander Zakin]])

*1953
::Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas (with [[Alexander Zakin]])
*1957
::[https://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_No.2%2C_Op.22_(Wieniawski%2C_Henri)#716290 Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, op. 22] (with [[Philadelphia Orchestra]]; conductor: [[Eugene Ormandy]])

*1958
::[https://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto%2C_Op.35_(Tchaikovsky%2C_Pyotr)#722014 Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major op. 35] (with Philadelphia Orchestra; conductor: [[Eugene Ormandy]])
::[https://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto%2C_Op.64_(Mendelssohn%2C_Felix)#722016 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in e minor op. 64] (with Philadelphia Orchestra; conductor: [[Eugene Ormandy]])

*1959
::[https://imslp.org/wiki/Introduction_et_rondo_capriccioso%2C_Op.28_(Saint-Sa%C3%ABns%2C_Camille)#716292 Saint-Saens: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso op. 28] (with Philadelphia Orchestra; conductor: [[Eugene Ormandy]])
::[[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 (with New York Philharmonic; conductor: [[Leonard Bernstein]]) Fontana 699 049 CL CFL 1051.

*1964
::Hindemith: Violin Concerto (1939) (with [[New York Philharmonic]]; conductor: [[Leonard Bernstein]])

*1978
::Penderecki: Violin Concerto No. 1 (1976)(with [[Minnesota Orchestra]]; conductor: [[Stanislaw Skrowaczewski]])

*1983
::Bach, Vivaldi: Concertos for 2 Violins
::Isaac Stern: 60th Anniversary Celebration
::Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto; Beethoven: Romances in G & F Major
::Haydn: London Trios

*1984
::Barber Violin Concerto
   
*1985
::An Isaac Stern Vivaldi Gala
   
*1986
::Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
   
*1987
::Dutilleux: L'Arbre des Songes (Concerto pour Violin et Orchestre) 
::Maxwell Davies: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
::Celebration
::Bach: Double Concerto; Violin Concertos Nos.1 & 2
::Beethoven: Violin Concerto
::Mozart: The Flute Quartets
::Bach: Concertos for Violin, BWV 1041–43 & 1060
   
*1988
::Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.2; Cello Sonata
::Brahms: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 102 & Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60
::Prokofiev: Violin Concertos No. 1 & 2
::Brahms: Violin Concerto
   
*1989
::The Japanese Album
::Music, My Love
::Prokofiev: Concertos No. 1 & 2 for Violin and Orchestra
::Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos.4 & 5
   
*1990
::Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schubert: Trios
::Brahms: The Piano Quartets
::Rameau: Pieces de clavecin en concerts
::Lalo, Bruch, Wenianski, others: Violin Concertos
::Bach, Mozart, Brahms, others: Violin Concertos
::Mozart, Telemann, J.C. Bach, Reicha: Trios, Quartets
::Schubert: Violin Sonatas
::Humoresque: Favorite Violin Encores
   
*1991
::Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor"; Triple Concerto
::Beethoven: Complete Trios
::Concert of the Century: Celebrating the 85th Anniversary of Carnegie Hall
::Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Violin Concerto
::Webern: Complete Works, Op. 1 – Op. 31
   
*1992
::Brahms: Sextets; more
::Beethoven & Schumann Piano Quartets (with [[Emanuel Ax]], [[Jaime Loredo]], & [[Yo-Yo Ma]]) 
   
*1993
::Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra & Serenade for Strings
::Fauré: Piano Quartets
   
*1994
::Greatest Hits: Violin
::The House of Magical Sounds
::Greatest Hits: Schubert
::Greatest Hits: Brahms
::Beethoven, Schumann: Piano Quartets
::Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano, K. 454, 296 & 526
::Beethoven: Piano Trios "Ghost" & "Archduke"
::Bach: Violin Concerto, BWV 1041; Piano Concerto, BWV 1056; Brandenburg Concerto No.5; more
::Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante; Violin Concerto No.5
::Brahms: Sextet in B-flat major, Op. 18 & Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
::Schubert: Quintet in C major, D956 & Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, D485
   
*1995
::Isaac Stern Presents Encores with Orchestra
::Telemann, Bach Family: Trio Sonatas
::Mendelssohn: Piano Trios 1 & 2
::Brahms: Piano Trios, Piano Quartets
::A Life in Music, Vol.3: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, more
::Beethoven: Piano Trios "Ghost" & "Archduke"; Variations
::Schubert, Haydn: Piano Trios; Mozart: Piano Quartet
::Bartók: Violin Concertos
::Bernstein/Dutilleux: Violin Concertos
::Berg: Violin Concerto; Kammerkonzert
::Prokofiev/Bartók: Violin Concertos; Rhapsody No.1
::Stravinsky/Rochberg: Violin Concertos
::Barber/Maxwell Davies: Violin Concertos
::Hindemith/Penderecki: Violin Concertos
::Berg: Piano Sonata; Krenek: Piano Sonata No.3; Webern: Piano Variations; Debussy, Ravel: works
::A Life in Music, Vol.1: Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, more
::Mozart: Haffner Serenade
::Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Vol. II
::Beethoven, Brahms: Violin Concertos
::Tchaikovsky/Sibelius: Violin Concertos
::Bach: Violin Concertos; Double Concerto; more
::Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Concertos
::Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos.1–5; Sinfonia concertante; more
::Wieniawski/Bruch/Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos
::Mendelssohn/Dvorák: Violin Concertos
::Saint-Saëns: Violin concerto n°3, Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole, Chausson: Poème, Fauré: Berceuse, Ravel: Tzigane
   
*1996
::More Mozart's Greatest Hits
::Mozart: Violin Sonatas, Vol. III
::Schubert and Boccherini String Quintets
::A Life in Music, Vol.4: Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Copland, Schubert, more
::Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas
::Bartók: Violin Sonatas; Webern: Four Pieces for Violin and Piano
::Beethoven: Violin Sonatas
::J.S. & C.P.E. Bach, Handel, Tartini: Violin Sonatas
::Hindemith/Bloch/Copland: Violin Sonatas
::Schubert: Sonatinas Nos.1–3; Rondeau Brillant; Grand Duo Sonata
::Franck/Debussy/Enesco: Violin Sonatas
::Brahms: Violin Sonatas No. 1-3
::Isaac Stern Presents Encores with Violin & Piano
   
*1997
::Barber: Adagio for Strings / Schuman – In Praise of Shahn etc.
::Bartók Sonatas for Violin and Piano
::Mozart: The Piano Quartets
   
*1998
::Isaac Stern Plays Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn
::Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D
::Bernstein: The Age of Anxiety; Foss: Serenade
::Bach, Vivaldi: Concertos
::Caprice Viennois: Music of Kreisler
   
*1999
::My First 79 Years
::Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
   
*2000
::Dvorák: Piano Quartet No.2, Sonatina in G, Romantic Pieces
::Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Concertos for Two Violins

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book | last=Stern | first=Isaac | author2=Chaim Potok | title=My First 79 Years | location=New York | publisher=Alfred A. Knopf | year=1999 | isbn=0-679-45130-7 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/myfirst79years00ster }}

==External links==
{{Archival records|title=Isaac Stern papers, 1940s-2001|location= [[Music Division, Library of Congress]]|description_URL=https://lccn.loc.gov/2020570056}}
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* {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=q54795}}
* {{IMDb name|0827716}}
* [https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Stern,_Isaac Free recordings] at [[International Music Score Library Project|International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)]]
* [http://www.sonymasterworks.com/artist/isaac-stern/ Isaac Stern biography] at [[Sony Classical]]
* [http://www.bruceduffie.com/stern.html Interview with Isaac Stern], 27 May 1991
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* {{IMDb title|0080762|From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China}}

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