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Great interview, Laurie.
Anne-Sophie said: "..we were discussing Bach solo sonatas. He was working on it and he wanted to know if I could think of a reference recording, and I mentioned the name of Nathan Milstein. He was probably 15 years old, and he had never heard of of him. I'm rather saddened and shocked to see that this goes across the border, it's no matter which country you are, there's a generation after me which is not aware of the grand masters of the last century; that's extremely disturbing. It's kind of a common disease of the young generation, who seems to think that whatever is out there as a new recording is the ultimate truth."
The big names of the past do not perform any more in concerthalls, because the do not live any more, but the younger generation can easily get in contact with those big names of the past, even if they have not lived for long, because of Youtube.
I am sometimes shocked of the repertoireknowledge of the younger generation. They only know the well known violinconcerto's and the only "encores??" they know and can play are Partita's and Sonates of Bach or caprices of Paganini, which they play as encore after one of those well known violinconcerto's Bruch1, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn in e, etc. The only encore for violin/piano is now Ronde de Lutins of Bazzini.
The big names of the past played Ottokar Novacek Perpetuum Mobile:
Michael Rabin plays Novacek (WITH ORCHESTRA) Perpetuo Mobile
(2.22 minutes, recordholder till now)
Jascha Heifetz Plays Novacek (WITH ORCHESTRA)
NATHAN MILSTEIN - Novacek's 'Perpetuum Mobile
HENRYK SZERYNG- Novacek's 'Perpetuum Mobile

Just type ""Nathan Milstein Bach" in Youtube and here it is for younger generations:
Nathan Milstein plays Bach Chaconne (Part 1) (Ok we are limited to 10 mminutes so part1)

It's true, the Internet makes it even easier to study the performing artists of the past. Very nice interview, thank you. Very nice interview.

But I thought that she had remarried and divorced since the death of her first husband.

Indeed, Corwin. We didn't go into those details. thanks so much for asking my question on bows....you're the greatest!!!!! She did speak of Andre Previn as a great composer when she was talking about the Paganini bassist. Great husband, father not sure. Thanks for the interview, Laurie. It's always good to hear the perspective of a star and realize that she is a real person, too. Where she says the only person who can hold you up is the composer, what that means is when a composer can't hold you up, it's wide open except for what you impose on yourself.

When you can justify to yourself what you do, why does it matter what the composer would think? If he doesn't like it, he doesn't have to listen to it.

Great interview, Laurie!