Jascha Heifetz plays "When You Make Love"

[jeffersonfsoares]

Heifetz foi um genio da musica tinha um pensamento amplo da musica não se prendia simplesmente ao violino e somente a musica erudita.Tem varias gravações dele tocando peças populares e arranjos feitos por ele, e se falando de musica popular e preferia compor para o piano.

[ThyrmBloodaxe]

wish he would've composed for the violin. :( it is quite sad.

[violinlurrve]

wow when i first saw the start of the clip i thought it was just going to be a recording of Jascha playing with just pictures oveer the top... and then I saw him play! : )

[geertdehoux]

Wonderful!

Does anyone have the score, please ?!

Thanks,

Geert Dehoux, pianist.

[egonsky]

Heifetz plays the piano since very young It was common in Auers class to accompany eachother at lesson... There are photos where you see young Heifetz acompaning young Seidel In Auer lesson. It is said that he had no problem playing even a piece like the Franck sonata on the piano....

[geigenmarie]

Heifetz' choice of his alias "Jim Hoyl" is surely a sample of his odd kind of humour: "Hoyl" sounds like being derived from the German word "heulen", which means to howl, wail, cry, blubber, and the like... ;-)

Maybe it is similar in Jiddish? Because Jiddish and German are very similar...

[Corrie121]

A truly gifted individual.

Thanks for sharing.

[leonlixinfong]

Damn! Why didn't he compose more! I hate him!

[aninalos]

@leonlixinfong He wrote about fifty pop songs but this one - recorded by Crosby - was about the only one that had any fame at all..

[MissSuperGenius]

wow i had no idea!!

[Seantk1]

I didn't even know the master of the violin played the piano , thanks for posting :-{D

[loveismydestruction]

@Seantk1 I like the smilie lol. neither did I though

[Zractor]

1 thing

BE-A-OUUTIFUL

[mayatatyana1]

This is a lovely melody. I wonder who inspired him to write this piece, Thank you for posting.

[wexinger159quemier]

mis respetos para este hombre

[hflvx]

WoW! Heifetz playing piano!? That's rarely seen!

[PhilipLu3]

He's the person that created the orange Chopin etude gag.

[Zractor]

@hflvx nah he played the piano a lot

[felixmendelssohn]

@Zractor Yeah; clarinet, too.

[davidgee100]

This is quite nice and reflective. There is meaning in a song, when one considers the mid-20th century.

[brainwasher9876]

heifetz played the piano? wow. It's like beethoven playing the ukelele. Double dose of awesome.

[Edward3600]

Does anybody have this song's music sheet? I really really cannot find =(

[DeluxeReissue]

I know his grandson - he's a great drummer.

[ArvesValaut2474]

I didnt know that Heifetz played piano as well. Awesome!!!

[duhhh86]

yep. he also made it a rule amongst his violin students that all of them had to learn to play the piano as well. during group lessons he'd simply call anyone up to accompany the soloist, and the student would be expected to be able to accompany proficiently...

[charmingemily]

good idea.

[jojiiim]

my nam e is jASCHA =]! yay!

[carrottoponcrak]

he wrote this too right?

[yamelchenko]

was haifetz a jew?

[Roxey804]

Jewish but born in Lithuania

[schostaievski]

of course

[StephaneGrappelli]

jewish nose,

nevertheless they're all geniuses

[duhhh86]

i love this little piece...it's fantastic!

[mayaluvsmusic]

this is cool yo

[duhhh86]

i always suspected that heifetz had a thing for jazz...judging from the cool elegant style of his violin-playing...

[msiu]

Why is everyone talking about his piano skills, and not the fact that he composed - a pop song no less! As far as I can tell, the piano skills required for a pop song like this is trivial; I think it's far more interesting to think about his secret passion for simple love melodies and why he didn't write more.

[wiccalite]

He was a fan of Gershwin's songs so probably decided to create a love melody himself. However everyone recognises a Gershwin tune. Anything that tries to emulate it is instantly forgettable. Heifetz, no doubt realised this and that's why, as far as I know, he didn't persist writing love songs.

[duhhh86]

but i prefer this song to gershwin's.

[KevinFromSD]

Heifetz must be a genius...

[theViolinDreamer]

He was a genius,indeed.A rare one.

[stafftoys]

@KevinFromSD he is a genius ahaha

[bulboflight]

omg he could play piano :O?! holy SHEEEET!

[nachobel]

I think I'm correct in saying that almost every accomplished musician (this is different from people that make money playing music, strangely enough (lol blink 182)) has passable to adequate piano skills. I'm no piano expert, but performing this song does not seem technically difficult. Writing, on the other hand...

[paulostroff99]

I don't think he intended or thought himself a threat to Horowitz etc,but was just displaying a bit of human pride in his versitility!

[TomBarrister]

Heifetz was accomplished on piano, certainly not of concert level. As far as who would "own" who, that's a matter of personal preference.

[seahyimin]

flawless playing, just like his violin lol

[fishpig20]

lol y do so many ppl think heifetz is the best kogan would own him

[helouz]

h'es fuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnn

[matsboman]

Beautiful piece, and beautifully played. Hefetz was the best..

[rule914]

(Continued..) I don't mean to be condescending because he is a great musician and violinist. But because of this, when he does something trivial on the piano lots of people start making a fuss over it, and it's insulting to pianists. Truly, it is!

[leviolonist]

Re "[I]t's insulting to pianists": I am SURE it is (at least to SOME).

[GreatPianists]

Uh...excuse me. I've been learning piano for quite a while, and it seems to me that he's, at the very least, "proficient" at the piano. Of course, nothing on his violin-playing at all.

[bigmelt]

yeah, ok. point out the wrong notes. i have no idea how you're so sure that he took liberties with rhythm and wasn't simply trying to keep up the tempo. and about the missing notes, unless you are familiar with this piece, how would you know? also, heifetz is obviously not sight reading considering he wrote it

[rule914]

We were discussing Heifetz' piano accompaniment

of Bach's A minor violin concerto, not this piece. Perhaps you should read what you're responding to before you get worked up and sound foolish.

[leviolonist]

Oh puleeeeeeeeeeeze, rule914, don't CARE so much and be so deFENsive!!! We are all SURE you'll pass your Masters eventually and mebbe you'll even end up writing and playing such music too and make a living ... IF you are lucky, hehehe.

[rule914]

Well, it doesn't take a great ear to realize that the rhythm is unsteady in many places and that he plays several wrong keys, plays many phrases improperly, and also omits many notes.... He does a lot of this because he is struggling to keep time. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and assumed that it was, for most part, sight reading. If you really can't hear it, I can point out the times and specific faults.

[misterbg1]

stfu

[rule914]

PS. This is basically lounge music. Most pianists at the ARTC level could improvise something much like this.

[bigmelt]

bullshit. maybe compose if they're good, not improvise, unless you have very broad notion of what "something much like this" means

[ravelmeister]

he didn't need to impress anyone with his piano playing...

[zigeunerviolin]

This is really interesting. He plays piano in exactly the same style he plays violin. Interesting to hear.

[misterbg1]

i disagree

[zigeunerviolin]

Care to elaborate? To me, all the nuances, dynamic changes, and just the way he turns the phrases is exactly the same as his violin playing.

[misterbg1]

i like chicken.

[zigeunerviolin]

Aren't you a funny one.

[misterbg1]

i think he is more expressive on the piano... so it seems to me... it is as if he does not need to show any virtuosity, when he plays the violin... even when he plays a slow movement... it sounds so virtuosic... but not this in my opinion.

[x2akira2x]

Hmm...Heifetz is not really known for his piano skills, obviously. Just to state, with all the respect to the greatest virtuoso on the violin so far in history, and as a violinist myself, he is not that great, and less than a virtuoso on the PIANO. In fact, I have some doubts that this is Heifetz himself playing.

[zigeunerviolin]

I never said he was a virtuoso pianist or a great pianist, I just said that it's interesting because it sounds similar to his violin playing in the style. Of course he's not a great pianist.

[leviolonist]

It's Heifetz playing allright. This song was also recorded by Bing Crosby, of whom Heifetz was quite a fan. There is a masterclass DVD where Heifetz accompanies a student in the Bach E minor violin concerto very sensitively and beautifully.

[rule914]

Sensitively and beautifully? Are you sure you're not talking about the A minor concerto with the shoulder length brown haired girl? He kept time decently, but it basically sounded like sight reading. A lot of notes and chords were omitted, and parts seemed as though he was having trouble staying in control. Speaking as a competent pianist -- from what I've seen -- Heifetz is not an accomplished pianist by any means.

[leviolonist]

Sorry, yes, it's the A minor. Sight reading? I don't think so. Lots of notes and chords omitted? I don't think so; there are various reductions, some more pianistic than others. Staying in control? Very much so. You a competent pianist? No way I can know. Heifetz not "accomplished"? Not sure what it means. Heifetz a competent pianist? For sure ... much more than some!

[rule914]

Yes, chords and notes were DEFINITELY omitted in order to try and keep time. He did NOT have control, and if he wasn't sight reading then he is an even poorer pianist than I had thought. Yes, I am getting a masters in piano performance, and I don't care what you think since you obviously have no pianistic insight.

[duhhh86]

@rule914: who cares. we have to keep in mind the functional purpose of playing accompaniment. he's not supposed to be playing solo you know, i.e. he's not supposed to be showing off his virtuostic skill. he just has to provide sympathetic accompaniment to the soloist, not overshadow the soloist.

[nodrog71]

Thank you so much for posting this!

Where on earth did you find this recording?

[marius312]

thank you for this beautiful video.