Beautiful recording. True Heifetz. Some sad pictures. Many of those pictured were probably gassed in concentration camps or murdered in their villages.
Some people say Heifetz plays with no emotion. This is wrong... and this proves it! Heifetz was the best at these sort of peices. Amazing and inspiring!
Of course you are right NOSEhow2LIV--thanks for the correction. What's that old saying about talent skipping a generation? Christoph is a magical artist in his own right.
Ernst von Dohnanyi is practically forgotten today, although his string trio still gets the occasional performance. However, his son, Christoph has carried on the family name as a superlative conductor. (Look for his Cleveland Orchestra recordings.) Oh, and what a great performance here by Heifetz--naturally......
If you like this, you should hear the Kreisler recording (with piano accompaniment). In this kind of music, nobody could touch Kreisler. He also includes a passage in harmonics at the end that is omitted by Heifetz.
@priscianusjr I agree that Kreisler surpasses Heifetz in that particular piece. He is more intimist, the sound is just magical. It is overdone with Heifetz,and his personality alwaysovershine all the rest. Does not mean I do not appreciate Heifetz.
apart from the music ,Heifez beautiful sound and all that: these photos are stunningly impressive,a vanished world,God, it makes me very sad.I dont have to mention the associations that go through my mind ,seeing this beautiful people.
A lovely presentation. I'd have chosen Shumsky's rendition though (from the 'Life Portrait' CD), but interesting to hear it all the same.
scott, what do you mean, he changed his vibrato before 1945? Do you mean, the 78 recordings maybe come across that way? He could always vibrate at any speed he liked whenever he liked, and it would depend on the acoustic probably more than anything - narrow fast vibratos don't project as well.
ive always thought heifetz had some gypsy in his sound, listen to his recordings before 1945 and you will notice he changed his sound, the vibrato became faster and more narrow
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mirgamarichika 6 months ago
Beautiful music, but beautiful pictures as well!!
marijnamsterdam 1 year ago
Beautiful recording. True Heifetz. Some sad pictures. Many of those pictured were probably gassed in concentration camps or murdered in their villages.
rheumer 2 years ago
Some people say Heifetz plays with no emotion. This is wrong... and this proves it! Heifetz was the best at these sort of peices. Amazing and inspiring!
dagll 2 years ago 4
Of course you are right NOSEhow2LIV--thanks for the correction. What's that old saying about talent skipping a generation? Christoph is a magical artist in his own right.
ipmoic 2 years ago
Ernst von Dohnanyi is practically forgotten today, although his string trio still gets the occasional performance. However, his son, Christoph has carried on the family name as a superlative conductor. (Look for his Cleveland Orchestra recordings.) Oh, and what a great performance here by Heifetz--naturally......
ipmoic 3 years ago
Christoph is his grandson.
NOSEhow2LIV 2 years ago
this is the most beautiful performance ive heard of heifez so far
Shaghayegh11 3 years ago
If you like this, you should hear the Kreisler recording (with piano accompaniment). In this kind of music, nobody could touch Kreisler. He also includes a passage in harmonics at the end that is omitted by Heifetz.
priscianusjr 3 years ago
@priscianusjr I agree that Kreisler surpasses Heifetz in that particular piece. He is more intimist, the sound is just magical. It is overdone with Heifetz,and his personality alwaysovershine all the rest. Does not mean I do not appreciate Heifetz.
MrTheComposer 1 year ago
apart from the music ,Heifez beautiful sound and all that: these photos are stunningly impressive,a vanished world,God, it makes me very sad.I dont have to mention the associations that go through my mind ,seeing this beautiful people.
peterlunow 3 years ago
A lovely presentation. I'd have chosen Shumsky's rendition though (from the 'Life Portrait' CD), but interesting to hear it all the same.
scott, what do you mean, he changed his vibrato before 1945? Do you mean, the 78 recordings maybe come across that way? He could always vibrate at any speed he liked whenever he liked, and it would depend on the acoustic probably more than anything - narrow fast vibratos don't project as well.
jaschenski 4 years ago 4
Very nice. Heifetz had a wonderful vibrato.
ztefieh 4 years ago 3
ive always thought heifetz had some gypsy in his sound, listen to his recordings before 1945 and you will notice he changed his sound, the vibrato became faster and more narrow
scottbos68 4 years ago
lovin on this
scottbos68 4 years ago 2