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  • i dont always listen to violin solos, but when i do i prefer jascha heifetz

  • Love this theme...and Heifitz really, really delivers it.

  • He was born to be a violinist!

  • @francesca7564 Génial! Merci!

  • @francesca7564

    C'est un cadeau ce partage suprême !! quel talent !! c'est du Saint-Saens en grande finesse, haute qualité !! merci pour ce moment de bonheur !

    Marie

  • The Havanaise in E major (French: Havanaise en mi majeur), Op. 83, is a composition for violin and orchestra based on the habanera rhythm, written in 1887 by Camille Saint-Saëns. It is one of the standards of the classical concertante repertoire.(From Wikipedia)

  • Though this might be a little late, he had the Dolphin Stradivarius, the Piel Stradivarius, the ex-David Guarnerius which he liked the most, and a Tononi. So he had both.

  • a most wonderful heart touching piece of music...........

  • At least, I haven't found a better Havanaise than this one yet. Perhaps there may be in the future or after the death of this generation.

  • I thoroughly enjoy this music & performance from Mr Heifetz. I'm only disappointed that I haven't learned/performed it yet myself. Bless the LORD my soul, and I hope to be able to play this & other great music (again) soon!

  • Mister Heifetz, You Rock!

  • woooooooooooooooow

  • EVerybody is dumb this playing is realistic... like a recital. not now where people can stop the track and redo a section they couldnt do it back then. its been 50 years now and still no one can play as good as him

  • no one can ever surpass this man

  • A king!

  • Heifetz was literally a violin god. The brilliance of his music is overwhelming!

    Check out Chris play this same piece. Add this to the youtube url.

    watch?v=lH24BQk2Su4

  • beautiful :) I play it my self... I love that piece

  • Nothing compared with his 5 wonderful piano concertos

  • Why is Heifetz so amazing???

  • Simple: he's possessed by the same devil that possessed Paganini. He was an awe-inspiring force on stage, and a terrifying creature off stage. Both qualities make for an amazing talent.

  • @shaylahill455 it shoul be 'Why DO Heifetz so amazing???'

  • (the orchestra follow him brilliantly too, far better than any other recording i have)

    any idea which orchestra it is?

  • Sometimes i do feel like Heifetz can skip over beautiful moments with a slightly harsh interpretation. (and by harsh i don't mean tone quality) I thought this at the section starting at 3:45, but then the link from 4:14 for about 6 bars (i think) was so chirpy and made total sense, it kind of explains what he had done previously.

    okay, what i wrote quite clearly makes no sense to anyone! never mind. technical marvel of his time.

  • Perfect !

  • i think it suits the style of the piece perfectly

  • wotta beast OTL

  • Enjoyed this very much...beautiful!

  • ranthony1903:

    6/10

  • At the end of his life, Jascha Heifetz told to Pierre Amoyal to play Havanaise of Camille Saint-Saens, he must see before the sensuality of Cuban dancers.

  • Heifetz really surprised me with this piece. He usually plays more expressive pieces worse than pieces that focus on technique, but he definitely plays this the best out of everybody else i've heard!

  • What an idiotic generalization. How many of his recordings have you actually heard? The truth is that Heifetz is AT HIS BEST in expressive Romantic pieces.

  • That is entirely a matter of opinion. What I meant by my comment is that although Heifetz was a genius with technique, he didn't always display his emotion in more Romantic pieces, and when we hear something coming from him as lovely as this, it makes it so much more special because it's so rare.

  • Of course. But opinion should be rooted in facts. It is here where you are actually wrong. He excelled in the more Romantic pieces. About this there is consensus of opinion. Perhaps you should list for me the ones that you know and indicate in which ones his characteristic white-hot passion is missing.

  • Actually I dun think so. I like the way Hiefetz played some of the romantic pieces, but I dun like him playing Mozart.

  • nice and peaceful

    excellent!!!

  • I've just started learning this piece!

    so... I guess I'd better go practice!

    Heifetz plays beautifully :)

  • Thank you!!!! Glorious!

  • Ahahahahahahahahahahaahaha, you clearly have no idea what you're taking about. Sorry to break it to you.

  • I don't remember writing this. Weird.

  • =) !!!!

  • itzhak perlman ever commented that heifetz's tone sounds like molten lava. how right. it's so rich in quality!

  • ranthony, very good to see that you have some ambition. but maybe for starters, you could try to learn the basics of violin playing first. you don't sound like you know anything about the violin playing at all.

  • ranthony1903, I'll lend you a Strad and I'll even give you a week to get used to it but if you can then play like Heifetz or anyone who we know and love as soloists, I'll get you he CD recording deal of a lifetime! Fortunately I won't have to do that now, will I? (The answer is NO, in case you were wondering). Stop taking whatever drugs you're on and get a life!

  • excuse me? let's buy you one and see you try.

    jerk.

  • He has a Guarneri and Strad but he prefers the Guarneri "for its robust sound"

    I really want a Strad. One built a hundred years ago or so would do nicely :) Jascha's Strad was built in 1731 and his Guarneri was built in 1742 I think.

    Put simply, very old, sounds beautiful.

  • I am learning this piece right now...and I'm still bad at it. =( Especially towards the end of the song...

  • I am learning it too. those tenths are a little challenging ...:( but I still love the piece :D

  • Thank you for posting. I have this piece on a very old vinyl with Francescatti playing with Columbia Symphony. It is about worn out. I am glad i googled and found your download. Its beautiful.

  • Interesting that you would accuse someone of being uncultured and proceed to make such a vulgar comment.

    Not only are you a hypocrite but I would venture that you know very little about being cultured or having sophistication and class.

  • <Beautiful, very delicately and romantically played by my favorite>

    YES

  • no u couldnt, its not just the violin, its more the player fuckass

  • :-O omg............. so great sound :|

  • Heifetz played a Guarneri not a Strad

  • I think he had both but preferred the Guarneri on most occasions. I'm sure he played the Strad from time to time depending on the piece.

  • @teddylilley He had 2 violins

  • @teddylilley i dont think he had a strad. hes my teachers cousin, il ask him loll!

    

  • What a wonderfully charming and sensuous performance. No one plays this piece as well as Heifetz.

  • His student Erick Friedman also play this like "storming"! as well as " Heifetz spirit"! I am very enjoyed it always!KamJew 03/28/2007

  • To ranthony,there are hundreds of Strad violins,there is and will always be just one HEIFETZ.

  • Absolutely!

  • definitely.

    aside from his emotion, look at that technique!

    i especially admire his sixteenth notes...

    this and flight of the bumblebee.

  • now, now, aren't you being a little bit cocky?

  • i love th way he plays it,its so elegant!i think that everyone has their own way of playin(style)!I like the elegant type*^^*

  • I let my baby listen to this, and he wouldn't cry... He did cry when listening to Oistrakh's CDs...

  • was he crying because it sounded so moving or because he doesn't like to hear it? lol

  • OistrakhMilstein just got PWNED....Congrats KMC, comback of the month

  • lol, rock on

  • I would also like to add that this recording was made in 1924 when Heifetz was only 23 years old. I will post other recordings that he made from 1917-1924 (16-23 years old) because I have this fancy little green box set sitting around gathering dust, waiting to be opened :)

  • I cannot keep myself asking, how it's possible that there are people, who find Heifetz cold, playing like a robot, without emotions...

    Jasha Heifetz art of playing is so full of emotions that I don't even think about his brilliant technic.

    It's thanks to his mastering of the violin that he can express all this. Thank you God for that you brought us Heifetz!

  • On another of my pages, I commented on the versatility of Heifetz' playing. There are some times where I feel his emotion is lacking and some times where I feel his technique is lacking. Most importantly, I understand that a truly great musician like Heifetz learns to shift to the individual qualities of the music instead of playing everything the same way like other lesser musicians.

  • @aimson Heifetz's technique "lacking"? Are you deaf? Or crazy? Jees!

  • @Tenorgeiger Sure, everybody is deaf and crazy from time to time. Heifetz was not always 100% perfect in his playing, which was the point of my post. Every violinist has strengths and weaknesses at different times with different pieces. For example, his early recording of the Bazzini sounds in better tune than his later recording. In another, have you ever heard Gulli play? His intonation is more perfect than Heifetz, it truly is amazing. Trust me, Heifetz is my favorite but I'm not deaf either.

  • @aimson I couldn't agree more.People seem to see Heifetz as the unsurpassable limit to violin technique,and that is just not so.Gulli is the first to pop up in my mind as well whenever this arguement is raised.Anyway,I guess the point here is that there is so much more to Heifetz than just technique and I hope people will see that,afterall,if technique was all that mattered Gulli would be "Heifetz"not Heifetz,if you know what I mean:)

  • @HeifetzRanew lol even Heifetz himself admitted he was not perfect. I think he said sth like" i just correct them faster than others so it sounds perfect" or sth

  • @aimson  Gulli wasn't a fraction of Heifetz in any aspect of violin playing or music making. Another stupid ignorant Youtube 'expert'. Why can't stupid people like this just STFU?

  • @Bluecorvette69 Unfortunately, in this case YOU are the ignorant youtube commentator who needs to shut your fucking face up. You have every right to criticize my opinion or the merit of musicians but not to come on my channel bitching about how stupid you think I am. Gain about 10 years in age before you come back here again, unless you magically mature into an intelligent, thoughtful, and respectful adult overnight. toodles

  • Reading the comments on various artists, it seems nothing explains people's passions: positive or negative. For me Heifetz' playing overflows with emotion. I don't think it's possible to separate technique and emotion. Good technique is needed to tug the listener's heart strings. One can feel emotion in response to Bach's music because of its perfection, but Chausson's poeme has so much emotion, a violinist would have to be pretty bad to not evoke emotion in the listener.

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