Josef Hassid - Dvorak - Humoreske

[lanciauxrayz]

how to pronounce Humoreske?

[whynotwhowhen1]

Pure genius, the most intense violin player I have ever heard, may his soul rest in peace.

[2ndviolinist]

Very shallow compared to Kreisler.

[sanmattia]

bellaaaaaaaaaaa

[bummy33]

1:39 <3

[2ndviolinist]

If you haven't already, listen to Kreisler playing this. He arranged it after all. He plays it like no other. Hassid is very good and thanks for posting. Kreisler's version of everything, with only a few exceptions, is my favorite. His only true failure is his very over-"Viennesed" arrangement and performance of Paganini's 1st concerto.

[imparadoxical]

how to play this piece with third position? oh wait I have to figure that out myself! :D amazing!

[ytaddicted]

Thank you KyotoMelody. I didn't know there were so many recordings of Josef Hassid. To me they are the most precious recordings ever – i simply can't describe what i feel when i hear Hassid play.

[monkgroupie]

@ytaddicted

there is a CD that claims to have all of Hassid's recordings: 9 in all, 2 of which are distinct recordings of the same thing: Elgar's La Capricieuse.

The CD is:

"The First Recordings of Ginette Neveu; The Complete Recordings of Josef Hassid" and it's really great. I just bought it at amazon.

[monkgroupie]

Damn! Hassid got my eyes tearing with this! I feel like such a wimp...

[Besnorki]

@ KyotoMelody I couldn't agree with you more; I also stumbled upon the Kreisler version of this piece first with Heifetz and indeed, with a few exceptions I find it difficult to like any piece of music played by another violinist after knowing Heifetz's version, but Hassid's is absolutely wonderful - and surely a strong competitor in who plays the most beautiful version of this piece

[maurice0773]

That's incredible. Hassid touch my heart

[Maggi2oo7]

love it, it's really a great record :)

But I'm surprised :D :

Kagome and Inuyasha? I really didn't expect them in such a video xD

[555henny555]

this is my favorit piece !!!!!

i play it mucht on my violin :p

[raoultak]

Hassid was the greatest....... nobody better......

[wefasdf23]

@raoultak The greatest recorded violinist.

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[malikrox]

It breaks my heart that he died so young... his recordings are the most... the most emotionally evocative of any violinist I've ever heard with exception of Fritz Kreisler sometimes. Imo he and Milstein were the only two violinists as perfect, and sometimes more perfect than Heifetz. I would die to go back in time and go to a concert with Hassid playing ;-;

[sueaffie]

I can play both the piano part and violin part on the piano, it's a great tune to learn

[CescFlow]

I like it. Thank you

[acermusika]

KyotoMelody I thought there were only 6 pieces and 8 is wonderful news. The BBC said 6 so I look forward to the "last" one eagerly.

This one was a surprise to me. ARIGATO!

[KyotoMelody]

There are 9 recordings, I dont have the 9th, though.

[themusicdr]

hi melody - i see youve been changing the pics :-)

[themusicdr]

there is something absolutely unique about this violinist - love it

[paulostroff99]

The greatest violinist ever,and the greatest tragedy of all tragedies concerning musicians.

[goroundit123]

Boris Goldstein?...Michael Rabin?...Yehudi M?

[nokia1242000]

Kreisler also said, "A Heifetz violinist came out every 100 years but a Hassid violinist came out every 200"

[poseuresque]

i also think this is the most pleasant, and it certainly it is the most distinctive performance of the humoresque. i like it that it isn't angry; the piece has always reminded me of a drunk who is incapable of ill-will...call it weird...only a little sentimentality, no malice. thank you very much for uploading this, and thanks to youtube!

[johnwinstondarby]

What a gift he has left us. Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

[balanchinemachine]

Best performance of the Humoreske I've ever heard.

[flashart]

" Pass-engers will please re-frain

From flushing Toilets- while the train

Is stand-ing in the stat-ion que"

"Once the train has left the stop

They then may let the matter drop

But not upon the seats as others do."

[billyguns2]

This is the only performance I know that gets the dotted sixteenth note rhythms right and has a liberal and unashamed use of portamento and rubato. is it true Hassid went nuts?

[krispy432]

Probably not by today's standards. They took out a portion of his brain and destroyed his soul in a gross overreaction to whatever his condition really was, if there was a condition at all. Might be the saddest story in music.

[politicopol]

@krispy432 ...Michael Rabin and Ginette Neveu...Dup Pre...as well

[paulostroff99]

billyguns2-It was thought that he went nuts,and he was diagnosed lobodomised. Not very long afterwards he died. There were those that believed him not to have gone nuts,and there was a story of him having had a romantic attachment to a woman- not approved of by his parents.

[baieun]

I love Hassid.........!!!

[baieun]

The best of bests........Hassid!

[sadumbrellla]

awesome. I love this song. I had a mate in school violonist who also played this piece. :p congrats!

[xlibrl]

Thirty years ago I asked an aged retired English violin soloist if he had ever heard of Hassid. Hassid! he said, every violinist in Great Britain came to hear Hassid perform in London. They kept coming even after he began to forget, as Harold heard him do playing Tchaikovsky, as I would have done.

[waistoi]

Amazing interpretation. Hassid's playing has made this humoresque a truly humorous and slightly bittersweet one!

[ConventOber]

i love this piece - it's so easy to play yet so fun and such a nice meldody :) hassid plays it very well... thanks for uploading :):)

[hanjacmac]

My heart music violin and papa.Bautiful 5*

[viharsarok]

He is very good, but I wouldn't say that he is better than Heifetz.

[Idonkare7]

...he wasn't quite 17 when he recorded this...

[xcrazyxnafanx]

beautiful !

[CoolJay77]

A godend talent! Thank you for posting.

[tabikko]

I lisetned and listened all 6 pieses you showed us.

I have never known Hassid before.

thank you again Kyotomelody for sharing this beautiful

gift to all of us. I am from Japan

[KyotoMelody]

You're welcome. We should thanks to youtube. :) But I wonder....You can see only 6 pieces at your end? There are 8.

[jjaci]

this piece makes me sad D:

[Meliere]

no words to describe this.

How can Mr. Hassid render such a simple song uplifting, heartbreaking, and yet ironically humorous at the same time?

[davlak]

bravo KyotoMelody!

un vioinista che non avevo mai ascoltato, una classe immensa, incomparabile.

bellissima anche la tua composizione :-)

grazie

[spiderspit]

beautiful music played by a beautiful, feeling human. sad how he was lobotomized by an equally unfeeling doctor.

[aldomasi]

ty kyoto very nice

[KyotoMelody]

Grazieeee! :)

[PEACequaLsanityWORLD]

beyond words, but a big thank you from Nara, Japan :)

[paulostroff99]

A to die for performance-as were all of his performances.What a tragic loss to the world- his so untimely death.

[paulostroff99]

There is no one better!Brilliant and divine!

[vulcanswork]

Sublime e con una profondità di interpretazione mai più raggiunta.

[KyotoMelody]

Grazie. :)

[BarNuun]

Lovely photo montage combined with Yosef Hassid's virtually sad, perfect magic; obviously KyotoMelody, you are a total seacoast person!!! To complete your photo collection, it is necessary to do Nova Scotia & PEI in the summer, someday. Do you have anymore of Hassid ?

[KyotoMelody]

Thank you, Bar. It'd be nice. Hopeful I can be there one day. I love the sea so so so much :)

[marius312]

I believe Hassid's style is transient and ephemeral whereas Heifetz is eternal and trascendental.

[KyotoMelody]

Dont think I can agree with u about this Marius.

[govibe]

what utter nonsense

[paulostroff99]

Fritz Kreisler said-A Heifetz comes along once in 100 years,a Hassid once in 200 years.

[eligarf]

both a tremendous blessing to all of humanity who can hear.

peacEveryone :)

[KyotoMelody]

Thanks, ur right. :)

[mixailaggelos2004]

mmm now i saw the bread in the video and i m hungry loll

[KyotoMelody]

MIX!!! LOL come over here, I'll give u some! (blushing)

[mixailaggelos2004]

I loveeeeee this videoo...bravo kyoto

wonderfull violin admitted even by a

Perlman-iac ;)

[elitefireninja]

Please please please please please upload Hassid's recording of Hebrew Melody by Achron! Please!!!!

His decline and death was such a tragedy.

A moment of silence for Joseph Hassid...

[KyotoMelody]

Thank you, I will do that soon.

[KyotoMelody]

Thanks so much my teacher. He was one of the greatest violinists ever. Unfortunately, we lost him too soon. :(

[JoesZone]

Yeah, Neat video and EXCELLENT for a First. I don't know the work of Hassid, but his a Great Violinist- as said below!

[orjus]

Wow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[Legocky]

Hassid for ever!!!!!

The greatest Violinist ever

[KyotoMelody]

Ty Legocky. Yes, do agree. I love his sound so so much.