Josef Hassid - Achron - Hebrew Melody Op.33

[natalie13xxxxxxxxxxx]

hey guys.....is it possible to download tis ?

[DuistereDarthVader]

@natalie13xxxxxxxxxxx

I got a CD with all his songs, together with great pieces of Ginette Neveu.

Please google: First Recordings Of Ginette Neveu; The Complete Recordings Of Josef Hassid CD

but you can always record your windows sound with sound recorder and that way you can also save it on your PC.

[CosmosTales]

Beyond words...

[BytomGirl]

This young violinist stole my heart...how sad he died in such sad circumstances, after a brain surgery, being only 26, he was beautiful... and from my homeland of Poland....

Sleep in peace Joseph....and the music expressed the depth of the Jewish soul... the sadness and loneliness...

[Finesse83]

Wordless & absolutely heart-filled. See you again in 200 years....

[roaringdinoo]

It's so beautiful, filled with emotions. This is real music.

[moloch49]

The violin wept along with Josef Hassid's soul. Aleva shalom; "the world was never meant for one as beautiful as you."

[trolololola]

Thank you for posting this. It's a beautiful piece. I was searching for a song for my music class. It's rare to find songs with information actually attached. You made my work a great deal easier, thanks again!

[Kievest]

Astounding virtuosity combined with the deepest most eternal artistry...

profoundly moving and breathtakingly beautiful. Thank you Kyoto for

posting and to paulostroff99 for sharing!

[opensecret51]

@Kievest Thank you so much dear Candy of thinking of me and sharing this heartfelt music and play !❤ * •. ¸ ¸. • * `* •. ° Kisses and love ❤*•.¸¸.•*`*•.¸. ❤*•.¸¸.•*`*•.¸.

[ditogam]

@opensecret51 Lost words ... this is DIVINE DIVINITY .

[racheleleeba]

@opensecret51 And thank you, Masha, for sharing this poignant, beautiful piece. What a terrible tragedy he died so young.

[dimast007]

His sound is not of this world...

[oregonghostwave]

Achron also wrote the music to the beautiful silent film "The Golem", the only quality version available on utube is auf Deutsch.

[teamcrumb]

The earth has no wishes for us.

[BartokViola]

incredible

[BigAppleDuo]

There's no one who plays this piece better. He paints love and sorrow so beautifully! It goes straight to your soul. Josef Hassid: Kol Ha-Kavod!!!

[zzp1]

Correct, a Vuillaume from 1860 and owned by Kreisler, who loaned it to Chassid.

Undoubtly a formidable talent but never fully developed.

There are similar histories of unlucky talents: Ossy Renardi is one of them ......

[FreeGiftOffers]

Thank you for posting this beautiful piece. I confess, though, that I prefer to listen to it without watching the photos. As lovely as they are, they do not speak of this music for me. But thank you for taking time to put this on YouTube. As George Balanchine used to say of his New York City Ballet, if you didn't like the dancing you could just close your eyes and listen to the orchestra.

[ytaddicted]

Thank you so much for posting. I can hear it 1000 times and i will still have tears in my eyes every time. I have never heard a violinist like Josef Hassid

[mastrom100]

che bello...



[JMJforever]

Such a beautiful playing...

the fact that he died young(of course a tragedy)

just makes it more dramatic. It is a pity that these days

young generation violinists are only specialized and focused in competition style.

[Flaminggential]

so touching n so much sadness...such tragedy

[Waldsaenger]

so beautiful, just makes you cry!

[violinmotek]

Thank you, acermusika. I just love this sound.

[Kievest]

A tragic loss of a phenomenal artist...too soon! He had his hands on the beating

heart of any composer he chose to play! He as a savant that divined the deepest

secrets of the human heart and soul! One of a kind! Thank you for this profound

and sublime example of his art and the marvelous intuitive visuals. Bravo!

[paulostroff99]

Awsome

[MsBleuOrchid]

One of my Timeless Treasure CD!!!!!!! Beautiful video clip!!!!  Thanks much!

[lovesGenet]

Kreisler,Heifetz!!!,Elman,Rabi­n,Szigeti none of them make me cry and it isn't just this genre.This man is like Horowitz -emotionally tied up and no matter how perfect his intonation or personal his phrasing it his his own style his personality that gets u.I'd like to hear others play this violin.I'm a pianist buti know Flesch because I had his studies as a kid. Spelling? Hassid is something outta dis world!

[MrTheComposer]

Hassid plays a Strad here...and on all the other recordings of the session. The instrument was found for him by Flesh. Wonderful and unique.

[MrTheComposer]

Hassid plays a Stradivarius on this recording and the others of same session. It was found by Flesh his teacher. This interpretation has more depth than Heifetz's version or any other.

[MrTheComposer]

Hassid played a stradivarius on these reordings.Carl Flesh found the violin for him

[gnatural]

i don't see what the big deal behind his playing is ... so many over dramatic comments..

[jaynoorhstreet]

he reveals his innermost self while playing blindly with only his heart to guide him. He was taken by a selfish creator to have all for himself.

[themusicdr]

hear the pathos in his playing. what a great talent lost so prematurely.

[raoultak]

No words.....just tears! It was cruel that life forced this man to die so young. Hassid knew so much about life. Life was so cruel to him. But what Hassid gave us in terms of depth in musical rendition, makes him the greatest ever.

[SkatenMix]

i need to make up a figure skating program for the holocaust book night by elie weisel and i cant decide from schindler's list and this one

help?

[poseuresque]

this one! hope it's not too late

[kanashta1]

magnifique

[pianoscantalk]

remarkable interpretation... i'm awestruck

[zoomex]

this version is the best on this planet!!!

so much pain like god is talking to you.

Hassid is the best !!!

Peace,

Zoomex Israel

[herraotic]

I listened to this when reminded of the trills made by Jimi Hendrix. Another tragic loss to music.

[drbronk]

He? Same here (also thinking about Jimmy H when i hear this)

[acermusika]

I believe this violin was a French copy of a Del Gesu made in Mirecourt.Something worth knowing.The very fast trills are made by using the vibrato movement and not single finger movement.Something I never realised till late in my life.Oh dear, I just frightened myself with that last phrase.

The piano chord right at the end always touches my soul.

[KyotoMelody]

It is a Vuillaume violin. :)

[kevaughn1030]

@KyotoMelody loaned to him by fritz kreisler no?

[fredhainen]

ACTUALLY, NO, a TRUE VIRTUOSO TRILL IS BY INDEPENDENT FINGER MOVEMENT WITH LITTLE OR NO VIBRATO

[Flaminggential]

@acermusika hi, the trills made by vibrato movt...i learned that as well but my teacher cautioned me abt it saying it is not correct way of doing it ? like i personally don't think it matters..but ya

[larryrael]

@acermusika Of course it is possible that he did the trills with vibrato movement, but to be honest I tried both ways and I can get something that closely resembles Hassid's trill by using finger movement and not vibrato. With the vibrato it is not fast enough.

[scriabiniste]

@acermusika

I think Kreisler gave him the Vuillaume. And about his comment comparing Hassid to Heifetz -- let's just say that Heifetz has proven, over many years, that he is peerless. Not perfect, mind you, but consistently riveting whether one agrees or not with his interpretations.  The great tragedy is that Hassid never got the chance to display his genius comprehensively and fully owing to the travails of his life.

[o0dolliao0]

i can't believe this piece was playde by a 17-years old boy!! it's so incredible!!!!!

[CanadaPisces]

The violin sings! TY!

[lanarv]

REMARKABLY BEAUTIFUL ! ! !

PERLMAN's interpretation in ''Yitzhak Perlman returns to Cracow'' video - also sounds MAGNIFICENT !!!

[ZsoltMagyar]

As Ivry de Gitlis saids you have to be insane or something like that to play like him...! its such a shame that he died so young the best young violinist of 20 century...

[themusicdr]

kyoto

this is beautiful thanks for posting

[paulostroff99]

Astounding! Incredible playing! Bravo! TY.

[OutlawKyle]

His trills are amazing! They sound smoother, faster and more connected than those of any other violinist I've heard.

[fernViolin]

i've just read a while ago that hassid's violin formerly belonged to fritz kreisler

[Talinka1964]

Never has a melody seared my heart so completely. Josef Hassid's soul is in this piece.

[poseuresque]

i've never heard anything played so quickly but in such a controlled manner...around the middle of the piece. i'm curious, were there technical adjustments Hassid made in order to play so perfectly?

i'm undoubtedly a putz with the violin...i play a mean table top with my fingers, but this playing isn't like anything i have ever heard before

[minsypie]

the atmosphere around his playing as well as this piece is breathtaking....

[releeman]

I have to related a true story about this melody , I was living in the bronx ny in 1978 , and I was playing this song on my stereo and a old jewish woman who lived across the hall knocked on the door . when I greeted her She said " Thank you for playing that old melody . I haven't heard that since I left Poland . Now I can die in peace . She died the next day . Such is the power of this piece !

[renamunich]

Thank you for this very much touching story!

[theViolinDreamer]

incredible. Thank you for sharring this story.

[poseuresque]

that's a beautiful story

[kalique1]

Thank you

[Bachismydiety]

@releeman What a touching story! Such a pity that Josef Hassid had such a tragic ending to his life... may he rest in peace...

[ShadowOfIllusion]

this is an amazing song

[cantorandopera]

Exquisite in every possible way.

[fernViolin]

the only thing that is bothering me is that

why is it that we never ran out of very talented violinists but

talented composers of baroque,classical,romantic music almost gone

[SpikeE88]

of course there are still talented composers! you just have to look more carefully (which is sometimes a pity)

[fernViolin]

having a lesson here is pretty expensive

[fernViolin]

thanks for the info merlinthedraconic

{i'm already in college}

i got a book for beginners i read all instructions on how to play the violin the only problem that i'm encountering is that

I CAN"T READ NOTES

I play pieces by listening to it

the only pieces that i've played well are

Ave maria by schubert

canon by johann pachelbel

and the beginning of the devils trill by tartini

[GreyShinobi]

Why was this thumbs-downed? I'm in the same boat, except I can read notes, I just can't tune my violin. We're beginners who are old enough to drive a car, lol. No reason to thumbs-down us. That was rude.

[Miliscent2]

Maybe they were hitching a ride... :-)

[castellomatese]

All the postings are wonderful, but I keep coming back to this. Hassid, like the great singer Joseph Schmidt, can express the whole range of human emotion and feeling in his tone and phrasing. There is both life and death, a quiet passion that doesn't let you forget beauty or pain. Thank you for sharing these!

[fernViolin]

Hey i was wondering can you think of any other violin sonatas/operas that can easily be played on the violin by a beginner like me?

cause parents won't let me have a music lesson

i really like to play the violin

[MerlinTheDraconic]

That's a pity that your parents won't let you have a lesson. Lessons are really essential for a beginner to get enjoyment out of the violin, as it is an incredibly difficult instrument with nuances that cannot be effectively self-taught, no matter how gifted you are. I can certainly understand the burning desire to play - I was in your place. Anyhow, you could try buying a book for beginners, which will show you some basics. Many student books have nice pieves for starting.

[MerlinTheDraconic]

Hmm. Your profile says that you're 20, but I'm not so sure. I'll hazard a guess that you're in high school, in which case your school may have a beginner strings class. If it doesn't, perhaps your parents will let you have lessons if you paid for them yourself. Consider saving up, getting a job, or asking them for your birthday, or holiday gifts, etc. That's what I did, and I now have an excellent teacher, and play in a semi-professional orchestra.

[leomulder]

I'm always listening to it again and again.

[fernViolin]

i was wondering where did you found these recordings?

and what year were they recorded?

[leomulder]

It was not me who have posted, but the year is 1940, and the pianist was Gerald Moore.

[petrof4056]

said Kreisler ;)

[ThingsWeSaidToday]

"A Heifetz violinist comes around every 100 years, a Hassid every 200"

[KyotoMelody]

Thank you. I so hope when another Hassid comes, he will have a long successful happy life, like Heifetz's.

[Delifine]

I am mad about Hassid. But what about Paganini? He died 1 century before Hassid made these recordings. Did Kreisler mean that Hassid was even better than Paganini? This questions makes me wonder because when I first heard Hassid he was the first violin player to really touch me so deeply and my immediate thought was: "That must be the way Paganini played long ago..."

[KyotoMelody]

Thank you but I dont think Kreisler ever meant to compare Hassid who was then just a kid with a Paganini who invented a great deal of violin tech. We dont have Paganini's recordings but Im sure he was greatttt. I dont think I'd like to interpret what Kreisler said either because, u know, its not always easy to understand the connotation of a statement. I love Hassid's unique vibratos which I cant describe by words. Thats all I know.

[themusicdr]

@KyotoMelody indeed you put it so well. pag was of course the 'original' master but no-one can say what he sounded like we only have hearsay to go on. however, of C20th violinists i think hassid was a unique talent, but then again there are so many great violinists, maybe he was the great among greats but his full talent was never realised

[kevaughn1030]

@Delifine kreisler was talking probabilities anyway, meaning that it was just the mean amount of time per occurrence. so two may have existed even at the same time

[crazy77town]

@Delifine come on, such comparisons are blasphemy... paganin would break his E string during the performance and would continue through the whole concert playing in high A. I dont think that any Hassid, Heifetz, Oistrakh or Kavakos would be able to do this

Paganini connected his name not just as a single performer but as a music period, devided from romantics. He made the violin the king of the music family. That means a lot

[milstein91]

@Delifine nobody knows how pagganini played,just because he wrote difficult music doesn t mean he played it like a god...

[rybakostis]

Just in case if classical violin will be still popular

[gnatural]

@ThingsWeSaidToday please...spare us.....

[ThingsWeSaidToday]

@gnatural .....spare you from what?

[Daisy4dk]

Achingly beautiful!!!

[jonathancaramin]

Absolute beauty... that's all I can say.

[violin2viola]

So sad that he suffered schizophrenia and was LOBOTOMIZED! And at such a young age.

[tragiedia]

thanks so much for posting these. i saw a small clip of his playing in a documentary once and i tried finding full recordings for a while 2 years ago and never found any . it's great to be able to hear the full works!

[theViolinDreamer]

Does any body have the music score for this piece? PLS!!

[theViolinDreamer]

this piece makes you cry.Also, if you would like to listen to something just as sensitive , look on youtube for "Romanian Balad- by Ciprian Porumbescu".

[fernViolin]

i should have enrolled in a music school during my second year high school damn it

I've been haunted by the sound of the violin almost every night it's kind of scary

that dream haunted me for almost a year

i became tired, i wake up at night,ohhh man the horror

that's why now that i'm in college after i finish my studies i would be enrolling in a music school just to stop that nightmare from happening all over again

[boodaguy]

The vibrato is amazing and it brings out all the emotion of the song. It is beautiful and completely original. Its sad that Joseph Hassid had to die so young... he had exceptional talent and was destined for success. A masterpiece.

[hanjacmac]

Bautiful melody thanks 5*

Ahava

[ConventOber]

this is a wonderfully bittersweet piece - practically makes me cry... i'd really like to play it; is it hard? i'm 14, and i got grade 8 when i was 12...

[Admiral337]

I think, that you sould kind of know if a piece is easy or hard. This particular one is probably playable by a 14 year old, but it's difficulty is not in the notes, but in what is between them and that is over the capabilities of a kid. But then, I could be wrong as I would judge a 17 year old the same ,which he so clearly isn't.

[leomulder]

Actually it has a "bravura passage" very difficult in the middle section, very far of being for amateurs at least.

[pedromiszewski]

Its amazing!!!

[wichitazen]

Olga2809 said it even better than I. Many, many wonderful talents out there, some better at one thing and some better at another. We're lucky to have so many.

[wichitazen]

Kreisler's comment is difficult to know whether it is true or not. Mitropoulos thought Rabin was the next genius; von Karajan said Gidon Kremer was the best violinist in the world. And so on. Certainly, Hassid was amazing. As to who was the 'one' in 100 or 200 years, we'll never know. Kreisler spoke for himself. So we should avoid such comparisons, and just enjoy what we have. Heifetz is Heifetz, and Hassid, a young man who left us a small, brilliant legacy.

[olga2809]

There are so many great violinists that we don't have to choose the greatest among them. There will be people who prefer him or him, and other people will prefer another violinist. Everyone has his own opinion.

And, by the way, if you really love the playing of a violinist, that doesn't mean he (or she) has made the best/definitive recordings of évery concerto. There are so many people who say: 'Oh, Heifetz is the best, all his recordings are the best', but everyone must decide for him/herself.

[martian067]

do you know more of any other music that can give an emotional feeling like it gives you a feeling of pure sadness, grief or maybe like

enjoyment

you may think that i'm weird but i can't feel any emotions, something is missing, when i play the violin although i may not be that good, i can't get that same feeling of enjoyment from playing the violin

WILL YOU PLEASE HELP ME?

[KyotoMelody]

I donno what to say, Martian. Perhaps u should just let ur emotion go... thats all! Or u can read a bit about Menuhin and his career. There might be sth helpful.

[ViveLaVie22]

hey, i know this is wayy late but i think i have just the cure. besides this, theres a piece called vocalise (i forgot who wrote it... tchaikovsky?) but its very famous and when played right it brings tears and i mean TEARS.

[Admiral337]

But you do enjoy the music right? Try to find a piece which is "fingerly" easy enough for you not to think at all about your aparatus, but still pretty enough for you to like it, and play it without thinking, simply try to enjoy the music as if you were listening to it. I found it helped me, for I too had a problem with emotions feeling while playing.

[Meliere]

(continued from previous post)

"Although the intention was simply to disconnect emotion from thought, the effect was often more drastic: The lobotomy usually produced a permanently lethargic, immature, impulsive personality."

The absolute cruelty of what Hassid went through makes me sad and angry. Perhaps it's better that he died as an angel. Imagine having produced music like THIS--and then having to live out the rest of your life as a practical vegetable. That would be the ultimate agony.

[KyotoMelody]

Yes, it makes me angry and sad too! Cruel indeed!

[Meliere]

As we know, Josef Hassid died from an lobotomy. I was reading my psychology book tonight and came across this passage:

"In the 1930s, Portuguese physician Egas Moniz developed what became the best-know psychosurgical operation: the lobotomy. After shocking the patient into a coma, a neurosurgeon would hammer an icepicklike instrument through each eye socket into the brain, then wiggle it to sever connections running up to the frontal lobes."

[HaxIRL]

Makes me sad.

[AceUnlimited000]

amazing trill(4:01-4:04). reminds me of a bird chirping.

[martian067]

still though i envy people those that can play the violin really very well as for me

might as well just dream

Nathan milstein and i might have the same case, milstein suffered with a broken hand and me a broken wrist

[martian067]

What happened to his violin though,

i was just wondering

some of heifetz violins were given to an organization

so what happened to hassid's violin

[KyotoMelody]

I wish I knew!

[martian067]

what happens when hassid plays this composition and uses a strad violin

[KyotoMelody]

His violin wasnt a Strad, it was a Vuillaume violin. But what violin was used isnt a matter though.

[kfcemo]

its absolutely amazing it envolves me in a melancoly exciting atmosphere

[CoolJay77]

Joseph Hassid's playing transcends the instrumental nature of the violin. His playing is very organic. I've not heard any musician achieve such feat to the level that Hassid has been able to achieve. It's like a miracle. Just my humble opinion. I try not to listen to Hassid's playing very often because it takes away from my appreciation of other violinists.

[JosephHassid]

yay, im playing:p

[ianchow107]

Oh, shut the fuck up

[mexindian1]

What a wizard of a player - absolutely incredible at his age. What might he have done had he lived a lot longer? Thank you for this video.

[olga2809]

His interpretation of this melody is very different from Heifetz' interpretation. But I love both of them. They both have special qualities.

[martian067]

WHO now will be the Heifetz and the Next Hassid

oh yeah before i forgot at what age did hassid played the violin

[Guadagnini1754]

For me it is simply the best, it´s a pity that there are not many recordings of this wonderful violinist! We have much to learn from him.

[lilylilybabe]

how does he make the violin weep like that?

[alerecau7]

such a beautiful vibrato

such a deep sound...

this is music made with nothing else than the heart...

its hassids heart crying..

[jootakahuy]

i have been looking for hassid playing this piece for about 3 years now. thankyou so much for posting it

[lredmon]

Absolutely incredible. I just discovered him a few days ago. I came back and back again. It seems impossible that a teen could play with such depth and emotion...the feeling is incredible. Thanks for sharing this gem..recovered from the mists of time.

[martian067]

i still cant stop listening to this playing

he has too much sorrow in his that is what i can hear from his playing

.........

[guliogyes]

It is impossible for me to comprehend how a person in his teens was able to play in the manner that he did.

[eerikkournikov]

thanx for sharing!!!

[macciboma]

Il cuore non può resistere ad ascoltare questa melodia toccante senza commuoversi, questa è la vera musica triste e malinconica,suonata dal

grande Hassid.

[martin12tut]

more wonderful is not possible. what a sound. what imagination. thanks!!!

[Dobrib]

I can not stop listening to this genious playing.Thank you KM.

[knspeed30]

es la mejor interpretacion que haya escuchado, Hassid fue un gran virtuoso.

[davlak]

violin played by a soul.

unbelievable! thanks for sharing :-)

[KoganSvetlanov]

Sometimes life is not faire...

[StarUponClouds]

This music is unbelievable magic that touches ones heart. When you listen to all the sorrow he pours into it, you feel as if you are seeing the people of the Holocaust laying dead in the concentration camps. It is as if all the tragedy in his life is being knit into the notes of his playing...makes you want to cry (=[

[KyotoMelody]

Ur last sentence is so true :((

[paulostroff99]

Let us best celebrate his life of so many musical achievements, then mourn his untimely death after a life filled with so many tragedies.R.I.P.tortured genius.You will always be remembered by the musical riches that you graced our world with.

[eriksyring]

The greatest violin playing ever recorded.

[paulostroff99]

I had never heard of him before today.I shall now listen to all that he ever recorded.His playing is beyond words.Awesome.

[KyotoMelody]

Thanks so much, Paulo. Im glad u like them. :)

[paulostroff99]

Like is a huge understatement.He constantly reaches my soul like no other musician ever has before him.I cannot thank you enough for posting these treasures.

[KyotoMelody]

I reaches my soul that way too. Thanks so much for ur kind words, Paulo.

[paulostroff99]

I often listen to all 6 Josef Hassid numbers that you posted,and cannot wait to receive the yet to be uploaded addition of this still to come-treasure.You have indeed enriched my life,for which I sincerely thank you.

[claviolino]

unfortunately he died when he was very very young........he was fantastic....

[paulostroff99]

Fritz Kreisler said that a Heifetz come along every hundred years,a Hassid every 200 years.He was the greatest violinist ever.His life was one of many tragedies.

[BarNuun]

Almost, Hassid recomposed this piece and set within it a voice human or like a small bird; beyond belief for a 17 year old! And what does Kyoto see in this? She finds the sky, the sea and sunsets, all well known places of abode for souls or lovers or both. A wild tantric begins at 1:58 ... **

[mixailaggelos2004]

Full of sorrow and passion...

eclectic as an old good wine..

thanks for sharing

[orjus]

Why the Heifetz comparison ,rather stupid

Hassid does wonders with a rather boring work

and if one has to hear it more than once it is

with Hassid playing it,always a marvel of violin

playing.

[marius312]

This is one of the greatest recordings, by one of the greatest violinists who is hardly known today.