A 1970 recording shows the 69-year-old violinist on fine form.

Read The Strad’s 7 ways to play perfect chords and see how other great violinists tackled the same work:

James Ehnes

Arthur Grumiaux

Ida Haendel

Gidon Kremer

Midori

Nathan Milstein

Viktoria Mullova

Gil Shaham

Isaac Stern

Maxim Vengerov

Frank Peter Zimmermann