Jascha Heifetz | Wieniawski : Scherzo Tarantella | Russian violin virtuoso | 1962

[PoLaRiZe54]

man i would trade all these mainstream "musicians" for ppl like heifetz and oistrakh

[CornDoctor]

@PoLaRiZe54 they still wouldn't be equal to their worth......

[PoLaRiZe54]

@CornDoctor ikr!

[drmuller77]

Heifetz is GOD! I agree...

[ejpseudo]

I swear watching him immediately made me a bit better at playing...what a master! I hope I can play with that passion someday (even never being able to come remotely close in technique). I'll never tire of watching virtuosos like him!

[kiheltetra]

Seriously,he is my god.

[jehovahuponyou]

THIS NUMBER WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY JERRY REED AND BLIND SWOLLEN BELLY McCLAIN. IT WAS INTENDED TO BE PLAYED BY CHET ATKINS ON HIS MIGHTY STELLA GUITAR. BUT YASCHA GOT A GLIMPSE OF THE SHEET MUSIC AND SAID: "JEEVES, HAND ME MY FIDDLE AND BOW.". YASCHA SHOWERED DOWN ON THE MUSIC, AND, WELL, THE REST IS HISTORY!

THIS MOMENT OF TRUTH HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY 'JEHO THE MUSIC PECAN-A-SEWER.

PS - I LOVE Mr. YASCHA H. - HE PULLED A MEAN BOW!

:^)

[cecile7864]

Extraordinaire

[jacob091285]

Those who dislike this video understand absolutely nothing about classical music or technique. Heiftz is one of if not the greatest violin player ever!

[DowntownScotty]

Wow.....What an amazing musician

[TheDirectorWong]

Can you upload a 1020p version of this, OH, it it would the same.....haha

Great music keep up the good work, and Thank you.

[firat8596]

I think the person who disliked the video could not understand even what's happening in the video.

[firat8596]

-No I didn't like this one did you

-I didn't either

Are you fucking kidding?

[dchenviolinist]

@firat8596 After listening to him play everyday, her expectations are understandably high

[KittyPlaysViolin]

Is that a giant GameCube in the background?

[ErnestoAnimation]

@KittyPlaysViolin jajajajajajaja

[StephenRedrobe]

This is an excerpt from a film that was put together over a three-year period, from May 1949 to July 1952, by Rudy Polk.

[vi0linr0xmys0x]

Did Justin Bieber actually dislike this?

[abbygirldelrosario]

hey is a filipino violinist :P

[jrobbfed]

I guess I should have expected Jascha Heifetz would own a giant Gamecube.

[Sesamestrt]

1:29 <--- Restart button

[Sesamestrt]

Justin Bieber disliked this!

[PBeF]

@Sesamestrt Hahahahaha! :DDD

[Avventura04]

American? WTF? a genius like Heifetz never borns in USA

he has lived in USA only for convenience (that's why Heifets was jew)

he's from the glorious CCCP

[MrVko94]

he is american violinist

[MrVko94]

Hi is american violinist......

[Rondoplease]

a little bit too slow. :P

[frankcisyarmi]

Jascha Heifetz q impresionante un elegido en el universo violinistico!!!!!! nada nuevo que haya escrito, pero aun asi lo veo y parece ayer.

[cyj986]

He was the greatest artist i believe i could not see any more....

[nicholausCummins]

joyfulvulture: he is lithuanian, but he was in the USSR, which is russian

EAT IT!!

[DavidDavingstonshire]

@nicholausCummins

The USSR was not all Russian, idiot.

[Katamanteuomos]

@DavidDavingstonshire a lithuanian devil.

[assindiastignani]

@nicholausCummins Well, actually I believe he emmigrated when he was 15 or 16, before the revolution, so technically speaking he never had anything to do with the USSR. They all came to America: Zimbalist, Elman, Heifetz...even their great teacher Leopold Auer. Indeed he was Lithuanian, born in Riga.

[bjoartec]

@assindiastignani

Heifetz was born into a Jewish family in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. His father, Reuven Heifetz, son of Elie, was a local violin teacher and served as the concertmaster of the Vilnius Theatre Orchestra for one season before the theatre closed down. Jascha took up the violin when he was three years old and his father was his first teacher.

[assindiastignani]

@bjoartec Vilnius, of course. Thanks for the correction.

[bjoartec]

@assindiastignani

At five he started lessons with Ilya D. Malkin, a former pupil of Leopold Auer. He was a child prodigy, making his public debut at seven, in Kovno (now Kaunas, Lithuania) playing the Violin Concerto in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn. In 1910 he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory to study under Leopold Auer himself.

[bjoartec]

@assindiastignani

He played in Germany and Scandinavia, and met Fritz Kreisler for the first time in a Berlin private house together with other noted violinists in attendance. Kreisler, after accompanying the 12-year-old Heifetz at the piano in a performance of the Mendelssohn concerto, said to all present, "We may as well break our fiddles across our knees." Heifetz visited much of Europe while still in his teens. In April 1911,

[bjoartec]

@assindiastignani

Heifetz performed in an outdoor concert in St. Petersburg before 25,000 spectators; there was such a sensational reaction that police officers needed to protect the young violinist after the concert. In 1914, Heifetz performed with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Arthur Nikisch. The conductor was very impressed, saying he had never heard such an excellent violinist.

[joyfulvulture]

he's lithuanian not russian

[TaintedLProductions]

He is positively amazing no doubt