Heifetz - Vitali `Chaconne` with organ

[parkourassassin77]

scroll up, youre missing super awesomeness

[godorks101]

poor organist, playing with heifetz must be really tough :P

[TrackerAction]

@godorks101 I'm curious of what your thoughts are of the organist.

[ThaDeeStylee]

Personally I haven't heard another person record this song with as much emotion AND impossibly perfect virtue as Heifetz. I was listening to this trying to find at least one note that has an odd buzz or flaw... noise from the fingers fretting/sliding, late execution, anything... and I heard none. What a tremendous musician.

[AnR645]

@ThaDeeStylee ain't no frets on no vi-o-lin :)

[ThaDeeStylee]

@AnR645 Ah... good call. I guess you can't be fretting a note if there are no frets.

[AnR645]

@ThaDeeStylee Seriously though, the only time you'll probably hear a slide is when the music calls for it - glissando can be quite beautiful when used right. And even with intermediate level violinists, you'll rarely hear any sliding when it is not expected.

[ThaDeeStylee]

@AnR645 Yeah, I hadn't meant the technique, I just don't know the terms of fingering notes and playing them on a violin. I just know when I hear people making notes happen cleanly.

[chubbydify]

Amazing I love his interpretation

[Viorubin1]

There is Heifetz and everyone else. I heard him play 3 times including the Brahms Violin Concerto at Lewisohn Stadium and in the pouring rain. As an encore he played Alt Wein saying if you can stand this so can I! He was the best. Gorgeous tone, unbelievable power and feeling that cut right through you. Ask any concert violinist who was the best. . A God.

[PaperGrape]

Four people couldn't handle this all the way through...

[PaperGrape]

My baby started crying at 8:43... Can you blame him??

[VanessaMaeFan18]

heifetz=beast.

[Acruz9301]

@VanessaMaeFan18

BEAST I TELL YOU!

[VanessaMaeFan18]

@Acruz9301 ohhh yes!!! heifetz is like the stuff!!! he never recorded a paganini album sadly. if he made one, it woulda been awesome!!!

[hargayl1927]

El ser humano a veces puede hacer cosas nobles,Jascha Heifetz reivindica a la humanidad.

[srinitaaigaura]

Download the audio and put some reverb to get the sound as it would have been in a large hall. You will never believe your ears. Oh my, that vibrato, that SHEER vibrato is just glass shattering and heart shattering! How can someone produce THAT much power and raw emotion from a violin??

[QGfk1]

After performing with a 12 year-old Heifetz, his teacher said, "We may as well break our fiddles across our knees." It's pretty clear why he felt that way.

[glenngrabcello]

you don't need to know anything about music to "get" this....for intensity, it has no equal...even among other Heifetz recordings....

[violeteyes12]

The first time I heard Heifetz, it blew me away. And I didn't even know he was famous.

[robotapartments]

meow meow meow

[Racerdew]

sigh...

[ipushupdaisys]

Heifetz puts so much emotion into his violin. It is truly amazing. No one can compare.

[jkwon761]

FUCKING INTENSE STUFF!!!!! luv it so damn much!

[halopalo]

You know what?

This can replace the 'crap' they call "angsty" music.

You want angst?

Listen to this. It is very possible that this piece has more drama than you will ever have in your life.

[voxhunden]

@jimhoyl In that case I'm glad to meet a Heifetz fan who doesn't feel that Heifetz was the best and the greatest and the only violinist worth listening to, because from what I've seen on YT there aren't many of them. And my observation about Oistrakh was a personal conclusion to a discussion on this page a while ago in which Heifetz fans were trying to convince me in their usual blunt way that this recording is "much better", whatever that may mean. Peace.

[voxhunden]

@jimhoyl Plus on the emotional depth of the performer.

"""As a result of the rise of virtuosity in Greece, philosophy, the lofty thought, degenerated, and instead of the philosopher we have the sophist, who exalts the individual. History teaches that, as soon as "technique" in one of the arts begins to reign, it is not long before it is not a question of real art any more, but rather of who can do the most amazing, wonderful thing, thus making technique the art."""

From Old And Sold

[bsewell47]

The first time I heard this I was driving in my car and the low notes on the organ almost blew my speakers... then Heifetz blew my mind. I was 16 at the time and it still kills me.

[ArbelBashLoberant]

Ida Haendel played this piece at Keshet Eilon Mastercourse in Israel this past August. It was very emotional, she is brillian as he is.

[skihopperDH]

3 people suck to much dick

[diaz0518]

El Mejor!!!

[DesiFuyuko]

He was a perfectionist. Amazing performance :)

[sharonapi]

It is amazing version , Jasha Heifetz was a genius ,

But there was only one Oistrakh and he his performances reached all the layers of the soul

[xDiArtsx]

2 dislikes = 2 strings left in the bow after this amazing performance =P

[paufeu]

so much heart and passion

[voxhunden]

I still like the Oistrakh recording 100 times more. Even if it's less virtuoso, it does hit me harder. A matter of taste I guess. Sorry.

[orchdork607]

I used to be in the group that thought of Heifetz as a cold, analytical performer. This has changed my mind! This is the most warm, passionate performance of this piece I have ever heard. Love it!

[Sapphire8176]

This is amazing this is my favorite classical piece of music.

[ppagnol]

Vraiment magnifique

[BejoFox]

I love Heifetz because his technique is perfect but is very passional too .

[Flaminggential]

Ya I'm looking for the little cadenza he did near the end. Sounded like chords with octaves descending from f to a or sth 

Someone help us figure it out!

[outoftunefiddler]

@Flaminggential Yo! I think you can get/see the music you want at the IMSLP Petrucci Library online....Enjoy!

[artotheque]

Quelle précision. Quel dieu.

[7stiga]

It's GREAT! BTW, does anybody know who's playing the organ. I'll be playing this with my sister, me playing the organ and my sister playing the violin and i'd like to know who so I could maybe search him/her up.

[OzzyKingofKings]

@7stiga I think the organist is Richard Ellsasser, playing his own arrangement of the continuo.

[graceluvsnaruto]

Which edition is this?

[carrottoponcrak]

@graceluvsnaruto Its the Auer version (as it is with most of Heifetz's recordings), but of course, Heifetz has made a few changes.

[ksviewerx]

It's a firestorm of incredible emotional intensity. And that vibrato, OMG, it can shatter glass to pieces with a tone of that much power!

[nbaballer8227]

no one plays 7:00 - 7:15 better than Heifetz...and overall piece too lol

[yushin1017]

one person pressed the thumb down button?!?!....

[JFKWT]

@yushin1017 wow misclick of the century

[TheMasterDecoder]

@yushin1017

it's because the user left 15 seconds of silence at the end...

[jenny1340]

Does anyone have the notes for the little Heifetz cadenza from 8:35-8:44? It's not written in Auer's edition. I absolutely love that addition :)

[russellkim98]

@jenny1340

I'm 13, and i'm playing a concert on this. My violin teacher has the notes, and should have it by tomorrow. if you give me your email, i should be able to get it to you.

[babeemin]

i like how heifetz plays the piece faster than the original :) agree with below, this is the best interpretation i have ever heard of vitali chaconne!

[Firey723]

This is the best interpretation ive ever heard of the Vitali Chaconne! ;( its so beautiful!

[heifetzthemoonster]

This is so awesome! I am playing this piece and I really wish i could play like him. of course, i know that is impossible.

[Flaminggential]

does anyone no where I can find this edition of music sheet

or who edited it ?

[ksviewerx]

What a powerful and fiery tone! It burns -- ideal for the sad music. Very emotional piece. I never knew a violin could generate such power in the tone. It could be cleanly heard till the last row in the balcony

[gvn933]

7:02-7:12 is amazing!!!!!!

[McSplat]

I love the way he slides at 1:12 to 1:22

[acrosstodd]

I have so many emotional memories linked to this piece. It gives me the gitters. I loved playing this. And listening to it, the emotion is indescribable.

[leegeon2096]

It is glorious! I'v never heard playing the chaconne as great as this interpretation

honor for him.

[lovellespice]

Don't you just hate it when an otherwise perfect record of "likes" gets destroyed by one idiot who doesn't know how to use a mouse??

[garrrynec]

oops...one person missed the like the button...moron

[21ninjafisk]

@garrrynec Sorry it was me:(

[scorpihun]

perfect !

[KosteckiAdam]

Unique!!!

[DHcello]

Heifetz : the god of Violin

Oistrakh: the king of the violin

Perlman: Best Virtuoso of Violin

[2ndviolinist]

@DHcello Kreisler - most perfect, best tone.

Sarasate/Prihoda - best virtuosi.

Maud Powell - best female violinist, better than most men.

Ysaye, Thibaud, Enescu, von Vecsey, Jan Kubelik, and too many others to bother typing better than those you listed.

[xuaznpride5597]

@2ndviolinist I believe there are not necessarily violinists better than others when referring to the famous violinists that have graced this earth. Each one is an individual and brings their own unique way of playing which makes the music their own. What i believe is we shld comment on how well of a performance this video was instead of comparing the many great violinists that are or have once walked this Earth.

[2ndviolinist]

@xuaznpride5597 So we accept anything that is supposed to be good, no critical listening allowed? That's intellectual pablum.

[xuaznpride5597]

@2ndviolinist Criticism if fine because everyone deserves to voice their opinion BUT criticizing because someone believes that the performer is not as good as someone elses performance of a piece is not needed.

[2ndviolinist]

@xuaznpride5597 You can only criticize by comparing and contrasting. Not everyone is equally good, even those who are famous. Period. We don't need to compose, play, or listen to music to live, but that would be devoid of intellectual stimulation which man craves. Man also strives for the best by comparing and contrasting everything. This is the basis for criticism. Your ideas are intellectually bankrupt. Don't expect another reply. Enjoy the music.

[Manofxrunner]

Where can I buy this? I cant find Heifetz playing Vitali Chaconne w/ organ anywhere but youtube.

[andrewinbrisbane]

I love this this. Pure and simple. What an honour to be able to click a computer and hear such genius. When I played it in 2003, I listened to little else. This interpretation totally took me over.

[hawkerrose99]

this version is a little bit faster than what ive heard.. imo

[brainwasher9876]

@hawkerrose99 heifetz almost always plays his pieces faster than the prescribed tempo. He gets away with this because of his incredibly precise intonation and his firey vibrato.

[jmastaflash1000]

the ending remindes me of the Devils Trill ending

[svrfan]

fantastic

one of the most intense performances I know

[WolflgangRazhan]

Beautiful..

[elvolutionstudios]

0 dislikes of course :)

[jesbu1]

@elvolutionstudios ....wrong

[NBurgmann]

Who´s the organist?

[ssassy117]

Currently working on this piece... its basically one GIANT etude, but beautiful when played right. :D

[soaringvulture]

OK. So I clicked on this after hearing Oistrakh's version (breathtaking!). I was expecting something offensively greasy. But I like this one better, Heifetz and organ. A real surprise.

Both violinists, though, are clearly in complete control of their instruments; I just prefer the tonalities of the violin/organ combination, which I would never have guessed. Sometimes, over the top is where you want to be.

[gvn933]

FKN AMAZING!@!!

[Nodoka8]

i love this piece, i wish it was short enough to go into region with...

[danielwowman]

its so much better with organ. heifetz is a gud

[elvolutionstudios]

thanks so much for putting this vid up!

[classicalmusic1000]

where did you get that photo of heifetz?

[xiawunina]

I don't understand why the part from 8:35 to 8:45 is not there in Oistrahk's video, approximately 9:25. That's such an amazing explosion, why would Oistrakh skip it?

[kaminskiian]

@xiawunina that part is heifetz's own! he does that to most of the pieces he plays, adding in exerpts.. that part in particular is not written in the music but goes along with it so well. i have looked and looked for the sheet music for it but cant find anything :) all miss that little part.. may have to learn it by ear to save time and $.

[aninalos]

@xiawunina Most of them do it and Sarah Chang does it almost a copy of Heifetz. She has obviously listened to him. The end, also where Heifetz thrills again. Don't fprget Heifwtz played this with organ at his USA debut in October 1917 when only 17

[kikkom4n]

@xiawunina

i think heifetz's version is an arrangement.

[kikkom4n]

@kikkom4n

in fact its actually an arrangement by Richard Elsasser

[carrottoponcrak]

@kikkom4n knowing Heifetz, ()and having the score myself), he definitely plays the Auer arrangement

[kikkom4n]

@carrottoponcrak

indeed

richard elsasser is the one playing the organ; not the arranger.

[rapter9800]

8:45 best part of the piece; Heifetz executes it with perfection

[MrOrganophile]

Hey that's Richard Elsasser on the organ!

[KittyPlaysViolin]

7:04

[autobahn303]

The best version i ever heard is from japan...a serie of documentals fron nhk called album musical del mundo...played amazing by a japannesse orchestra...

[Imagirl979]

I have this on an old vinyl LP. When you can hear the lower registers of the organ with the shining violin, it's sublime. This piece is so rife with passion in it's technically virtuosity it is frightening! One of my favorites!

[voxhunden]

And the organ is great too, for that matter.

[voxhunden]

I'm not necessarily a Heifetz fan (no-ones fan at all, in fact), but he does make angels sing here.

[calloffthedogs]

oh man, that vibrato!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Itachi1846]

yeah, heifetz 's vibrato really rules...

[vanpitt]

Holy cow...

[Ender91]

after that, no words can really be said. i can only start it from the beginning and listen again. Heifetz was truly a miracle.

[Lux019]

I remember hearing this many times when i was a teenager. Intense music.

[gvn933]

wow at 7:11 just amazing and so powerful!!

[TwelfthRoot2]

7:11 might have been the single sexiest sound I've ever heard. correction: that was the single sexiest sound I've ever heard.

[LiGiKixox]

amazing

[heilogif]

Heifetz is AMAZING!!! I hope that I can get good enough to play this piece on my violin. Thanks for posting!

[Andyok87]

For anyone who has ever said that Heifetz is cold, please listen to this recording and sit with a packet of tissues and enjoy some of the most musical playing i have ever heard

[JohnEstaque]

@Andyok87 dont worry... being cold doesn't always entail of being not artistic. I believe that sometimes a musical piece sounds better if its is played coldly especially if the theme is somewhat doleful, dark and sad

[michaelrabinthebest]

4:44!!

[kirkorian1981]

@michaelrabinthebest oh man for god sake yes! at the ending of the cantabile at 5:36 it's almost impossible to say fuck! why i'd born so late to see him play this.

[jonsson666]

unbeatable interpretation, there's no doubt he truly was the greatest violnist of our times...

[fabulousieva]

the organ sounds like he was playng it with an orchestra...

wow

amazing talent.

he is more than a natural performer...

[HeifetzReborn]

He earned his reputation of being the greatest violinist of the 20th century. I will forever honor him.

[ohaiderrrr]

@HeifetzReborn

your name says otherwise lol

[sangyuniee]

OMG He's violin sounds like crying at 1:41...

[werthersamsa]

it's really excellent

[Cameron08812]

only one brave enough to play with organ

[waston]

i have never felt this way just listening to a song before..

its so beautiful..