Holy cow! Itzhak Perlman is 70 today.
Here’s a write up by NPR, with a selection of video clips, including one of Perlman’s appearances on “The Ed Sullivan Show” (ah, the days when you could hear Wieniawski on network television) and one on “Sesame Street.”
Some of my personal favorites from Perlman’s discography:
The Korngold Violin Concerto in D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP4KlctwXHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpoikVVrJxA
The Castelnuovo-Tedesco Violin Concerto No. 2 “The Prophets”
Okay, so I have a sweet tooth.
Here’s a lovely recording of the Brahms sonatas. Unfortunately, it being YouTube, you will have to suffer through a commercial between each of the movements.
Happy birthday, Itzhak Perlman. Thanks for all the beauty.
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