FELIX MENDELSSOHN - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 - Shlomo Mintz/Israel Symphony/Zubin Mehta

Shlomo Mintz, a protégé of Issac Stern, and a phenomenal violinist in his own right, plays a part of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor, first movement. Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in this vintage performance. Shlomo Mintz has been playing for more than four decades, although he’s only fifty-three (born on October 30, 1957). His standard biography says: Born in Moscow in 1957, Shlomo Mintz emigrated with his family two years later to Israel, where he studied with the renowned Ilona Feher. At age eleven, he made his concerto debut with the Israel Philharmonic. He made his Carnegie Hall debut at age sixteen in a concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and subsequently began his studies with Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music. ************* Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, was his last large orchestral work. Mendelssohn first thought of it in 1838 and it premiered six years later, in 1845, when he was thirt