Moiseiwitsch and Heifetz play Beethoven Kreutzer Sonata Pt. 1/4

[jeffersonfsoares]

Acho a melhor a interpretação desta sonata, adoro o andamento que esta aqui e Heifetz esta impecavel o pianista tambem faz um ótimo trabalho. Outra bela interpretação é de Leonid Kogan

[TheTucsonJeff]

I'd be curious to know the date of this recording. Anyone know?? I have a Heifetz / Emanuel Bay recording of the Kreutzer dated September 22, 1960 which is not as good as this one with Moiseiwitsch.

[gspaulsson]

The phrasing in the Adagio is wooden compared to Oistrakh's, but Heifetz gives us a real Presto where Oistrakh is maybe Allegro Moderato. Of the versions posted on YouTube, I like Milstein's best overall

[discernmentify]

his skill is impeccable undoubtedly; however, i feel it a bit lack "sostenuto".

it's my feeling, though i'm no professional.

[javideleon24]

Best Kreutzer ever! Listen at his musicality, vibrato, spicato... Heifetz is the best.

[93masacre]

Genial, la mejor sonata escrita, hace pensar en el verso de Machado: "Caminante, no hay camino"

[cicco93B]

Sei il mio mito! O Beethoven! E lo resterai per sempre!

[butterbeatsmargarin]

omg this is beautiful.... i think like tolstoy's character i could go into a state of mind where nothing else would matter except this sonata...

[purbanegoro]

Yiddish rubbish.

Ruggiero Ricci was better than Stern and Menuhin combined.

Salvatore Accardo is a Paganini specialist and technically, timbrally and bravuri far superior to Itzhak Perlman, Shlomo Milstein etc.

Why do listeners gush over these horrible Yiddischer Klezmer scratchers?

You obviously are tone deaf, have elective hearing, or mental acuity issues

[andycchu]

To settle the argument of whether this is in A major or minor I asked the Music itself and she said her name is in neither major nor minor and in fact, she had no concept of A, B, or C. She also asked me why we must dress her up with a name for isn't her sheer beauty breathtaking enough?

[moldyoreo]

@andycchu Are you a homosexual?

[Cancrizans]

@moldyoreo are you a completely unpoetic pedant?

[moldyoreo]

@Cancrizans no, but you are a pot calling a kettle black.

[Cancrizans]

@moldyoreo How so? You insulted a man for speaking somewhat poetically about music. Not only an insult but one only a 12 year old at the cafeteria table could muster. Are you so unpoetic you can't even comprehend the use of the term "pot calling the kettle black"? Please respond describing how what I said fits that idiom.

[moldyoreo]

@Cancrizans You calling me unpoetic is a prime example of the pot calling the kettle black. Before you move on to poetry, attempt to correct your prose; the pot calling the kettle black is hardly a "term."

[musicspotAT]

The KREUTZER is in a-minor - not in A-Major !

[Garomi]

@musicspotAT

The Kreutzer Sonata is in A major. Look it up on internet.

[musicspotAT]

I don´t need internet, just the score and musical analyses: ONLY THE 1st FOUR bars are in A-Major, the rest of the introduction is in a-minor, the whole Presto is in a-minor (certainly with modulations to the dominant), the 2nd movement is in F-Major (VI.grade of a-minor) ... and the Finale has been lent from the previous Sonata op.30/2 - Moreover the Finale is never indication for major/minor - see the 5th or 9th symphony. Most sources got it wrong, but B. didn´t indicate a key at all!

[empoleon9999]

Just wondering, did Heifetz change up the rhythm a bit to spice it up? Some of the sections that are fast spiccato are eighth notes in the sheet music dictation that I have but he plays it as sixteenth notes or less.

[DGrieux]

@musicspotAT LOL

[DGrieux]

@musicspotAT

Just to be clear, I was laughing because this is a long debatable topic and I read about it on too many occasions here on youtube.

[KathleenFerrier]

Certo notevolissima esecuzione, ma la domanda che sorge spontanea è: "Ma perché così veloce? Sono pagati a cottimo per la produzione delle note?

[variousweetie]

Did Heifetz establish his fame by simply playing faster than others on every piece?

[felixmendelssohn]

No; there was much more to it than his exceptional technique.

[ipmoic]

It's the shift from chord 2 to 3. Very tricky indeed intonation-wise. Kogan uses the same fingerings as Heifetz with similar results (Kogan is just a bit more careful.)

Milstein does not connect chord 1 to 2. It's clean but, IMHO, it is an unmusical choice. Oistrakh seems to have found the most successful combination for the 3.

You can be sure that each of these greatest violinists of the 20th century agonized about this and tried untold different fingerings.

It's just REALLY hard!

[tennisballer17]

ahhhh i see what you mean, especially after looking at the sheet music...VERY difficult indeed. Besides that tho, I actually prefer this recording to all the others you mentioned. This one has an edge to it that the others dont

[karmita]

Amazing O__O

[j72050]

Rachmaninoff stated that Moiseiwitsch played his music better than he did himself.....that thin, wiry tone of Heifetz is electric....I like the 1930s Becham Sibelius Concerto with Heifetz....

[vstasov]

Heifetz is so......centered!

Brilliant. Thank you.

[acermusika]

Wonderful to hear Moiseiwitsch in this ,I was very fortunate to see him in the Albert Hall once and I never heard such silence in an audience as they savoured every exquisite sound.And Heifetz recording tone here is remarkable.

[harvard11]

Wonderful recording. Heifetz is so unique!

[ipmoic]

It''s funny, even Heifetz has a bit of trouble with this infamous opening. Not that he doesn't play it well, but it is a sticky little passage--especially all alone and naked.

Just ask any professional violinist!

[tennisballer17]

what indicates that he has trouble with the opening?

[paulostroff99]

Stunning! Bravo!  TY.

[0ladystardust]

i love heifetz's playing here, so much fire!!!

[Sinfoniette]

Greatest recording of the Kreutzer I ever heard. The violinist is great, but Moiseiwitsch is also shining in this recording.

[OriginalMoonbeam]

Remarkable!

[Ele3tricEye]

its funny how angry this piece is

[bellonny]

Eu amo Heifetz

[ztefieh]

Agreed...wonderful!

[snaaptaker]

Wonderful!!