The hardest thing here is this polyphony of cascading notes -- the ear is more sensitive to the higher notes and it is difficult to project and hear all the notes equally well so that the rhythm driving the prelude can be picked up -- this is what makes many sections truly meaningful, without it some parts might sound like a random jumble of notes. Try listening to this on a harp and you'll see a new meaning to the way this piece goes.
@An0niempje Actually that was Heifetz's own opinion of what he thought was expected of him -- he refused to believe otherwise.
But I really wonder why some people take one slight scratch or one note just barely off pitch in one frame in one single video and use it to bash each others' favorite musicians "why my favorite violinist is "God" and yours sucks" and turn the page into a battlefield.
Perfection does not exist -- there are only standards, styles and personal tastes.
Jascha Heifetz!!!!!! gracias por existir! cada ves que te escucho doy gracias por tu virtuosismo!, tambien eras un ser sumamente alegre con tus alumnos avanzados obviamente!
@NexusDoug Yeah, when he was 37 he claimed he had been practicing and playing for about 66000 HOURS! (7.5 years). About 5-6 hours a day on average! He had total musical recall and could remember anything he played from the score by doing it just once. He was also an expert pianist.
He toured 2,000,000 miles in his career, in THOSE days. He was also incredibly efficient at maximizing his practice productivity and despite surgery, still played till he died at 87... now how's that for commitment?
This makes me think how this man really had to live up to his own legend. I mean the pressure must have been really high - to preform at the prestige that is expected every time. Hours and hours and hours of dedication. This is music.
and though i like this rendition, i'm not sure that heifetz was meant to play bach. i find szeryng interpretation more enjoyable. it's certainly because he was more familiar with bach than heifetz. besides szeryng's playing style seems more appropriate for bach than heifetz's.
What makes it more amazing is that this was how he played all his career. I read he played 200 concerts a year during his peak. How in the world did he maintain his standard with those rigors of constant touring and all ??
I mean you can push to your peak once or twice on occasion when everything falls in place, but sustainability is totally different. Imagine sustaining this level for 60 years + in concert after concert? Then you know just what this man was truly capable of ....
Hmm...Heifetz was right. People didn't enjoy his music as much because the only thing they looked for was when or how often he was going to slip up....and that's all they'd probably take home with them after the concert -- a statistic.
It's the easiest job to criticize and expect impossible things from 'idols', even beyond their own limits. It's another matter that how many of us can or are willing to work so hard and sacrifice so much in life and do even 10% of what he did....
@srinitaaigaura You are wrong that errors is the only thing people are looking for. Maybe some people do that, but (i hope) most people really enjoy the music.
Naturally I notice errors and one reason I love Heifetz is that he doesn't make many of them.
@SoupCan113 It's actually not that hard to memorize. I'm playing it now and I've memorized it. But you're right, his playing is COMPLETELY FLAWLESS!! I cannot do that.
Folks this is a LIVE performance. If you are listening for blemishes you have missed the point about music. The purpose of practicing for perfection is to enable the reduction of inevitable blemishes to a minimum. The odd "goof" is fine, as long as your playing is not littered with them.
@DiexSchwarzexGeige If you just sit back and enjoy without criticising you will feel happier in that moment than if you constantly find fault. And this can be applied to anything, a piece of art, a nice walk, a meal in a restaurant. For me it is a pretty good definition of insanity to sit in a restaurant eating a meal cooked by a great chef and then nit picking about something one could not have cooked oneself. This is exactly the same thing as listening to Heifetz and trying to find fault!!!
@DiexSchwarzexGeige I suppose I give a shit because I am a human being. And when we stop criticising others we can have more compassion for ourselves also and our world becomes a nicer place. This is something I am beginning to apply in my own life, sadly not enough or we would not be having this discussion!!
@DiexSchwarzexGeige You're quite right, though it is a sad state of affairs and frankly probably one of the biggest causes of stage fright. In such an atmosphere it is a miracle when artistry can exist at all.
@DiexSchwarzexGeige Oh, and by the way, you contradicted yourself by saying Heifetz plays the violin perfectly and then "duh, nobody's perfect". And it is a myth about Heifetz's perfection, his playing is always right on the edge, he takes risks that somebody like Oistrakh would not take, invariably those risks don't always come off. It's that level of excitement and intensity that sets him apart from other players.
@DiexSchwarzexGeige NOBODY plays the violin perfectly, because all though there are many objective elements such as rhythm and intonation, there are many more subjective elements. Secondly how much a performance is enjoyed depends on other things than technical perfection, such as artistry, beauty of sound, tonal colours, spontaneity and anyone listening with a judgementally critical ear listening from a point of intolerance prevents themselves from enjoying these things. Tough shit to them!!
@DiexSchwarzexGeige No he didn't, don't be so ridiculous, and even if he did, so what this is music, not open heart surgery. Maybe those of you who are so sad as to listen for mistakes while missing the beauty of the music should restrict yourselves to listening to shitty, pre-recorded, sinthesised music. That will hopefully meet your digital expectations.
Im seeing alot of comments on every single video of any musician exclaiming the superiority of the musician to all others CASE CLOSED........ im just saying that type of ignorance is terrible, you should never be so damn close minded, such as living only in one country, your point of view on life is incredibly limited to a little spec. Always be open to new ideas never follow trends always be open.
@liliTchaikovsky Duh, yeah, it's obvious that a little over 30, Hilary is finished and is never going to get any better! A $5000 fine to anyone who dares praise today's talents!
@DiexSchwarzexGeige@fryfry377 sorry, meant 2:46, not 4:46. but there was no pause, just an absence of tone as his bow glided over the E for a sec without really catching it. Unless you were referencing a different point in the recording or something.
@DiexSchwarzexGeige hah... he didn't *really* mess up, he just didn't really make full contact with his open E-string on one stroke (4:46) and it made a squeaking noise instead of really ringing. still, for Heifetz, that's a mistake. Gotta love how he's kind of phoning this in and it's still brilliant.
Jascha Heifetz eraaa el tipooo grann solistaaa ... fue unos de los pocos en tener en sus manos un violin strvivarius.... diosss que viva Jascha Heifetz ... que viva el sistema nacional de orquesta en venezuela y que viva chavez :)
Jascha Heifetz..... truly a revered violinist... sparked by virtuoso and energy.. too bad the recording couldnt capture all the echos and reverbs from the concert hall
@KoreanMusicBank It's not really a technological issue ... Heifetz always insisted that the mic was right up next to him instead of further out in the hall, which is why sometimes his playing sounds a little scratchy (stuff that wouldn't be audible in a concert hall)
heifetz was a prima donna. an amazing technician, but his renditions of bach are almost distasteful at times. the staccato too clean and pronounced, completely lacks rubato as well. milstein put his heart into this. szerying too. maybe heifetz was an alien. his playing seems to reproach the human element in everything he played. he was a yuppy too. i loathe yuppies. the russian spirit is nowhere to be found in this dude.
@poseuresque Have you heard his recordings of the great concertos, like Tchaikovsky or Brahms or Beethoven or Mendelssohn? He didn't neglect the "human element" in my opinion- he wasn't melodramatic, he was pure. Not so say I don't like Milstein or Szeryng, or that I think this rendition is the best of this piece, but give him some credit. This is beautiful music!
@poseuresque How is this distasteful because it lacks rubato; it's Bach, not the Vitali Chaconne. And his staccato is clean and pronounced? How is that a bad thing?...and if you say his playing reproached the human spirit, you've obviously never heard any of his other recordings. I also don't see how him being a "yuppy" or not having any "Russian Spirit" affects the quality of music he created.
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Yes, Heifetz was the best between badest players, in this Partitas N°3-techically wrong, with 2-3 small faults, poor son and clarity, but good "tempo"
I was wondering what part of the bow to use. One of the other works uses the tip as well...the B minor work; one of the doubles. Heifetz is one of the references I try to see how a piece is played. It s very nice. Also, I heard from someone...a violin professor...that in some medium, a violin recording, irrespective of the performer, can sound 50 to 100 times WORSE...but that is not by the violinist.
Heifetz was a great violinist, unique in his way, but David Oistrakh (who never recorded Bach´s sonatas and partitas) was the greatest. Oistrakh´s sound and musical taste are really prodigious. Listen to his recordings of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius concertossomething very special.
this recording quality isn't as good as Milstein's, but there's a wonderful full "ring" when the bow touches the string that comes through regardless of the recording quality. It shows a wonderful bow and violin, of course, but it also reveals an exquisite 'touch" that allows full sound quality from the tiniest touch on the string. 1:32 is a bit muddy, but the quality comes through. at 1:53 it sparkles again...I prefer the Milstein, but it is a case of "first among equals"
@stuballs42 Case open!!! Leonid Kogan, Leonidas Kavakos, James Ehnes, Christian Tetzlaff, Itzhak Perlman, Nathan Milstein, Gidon Kremer... and the list goes on!!!
@exavian1 Sorry never heard the man play,if YOU did ,and think he's better ,thats your choice!! Heifetz is the most compared violinest of all times ,and eveyone is always makeing some comparision of this violinest or that one to Heifetz.
@stuballs42 Well there is no doubt in my mind that Heifetz has been best violinist since Paganini, but I think that Paganini was better at playing, that still doesn't mean that I dislike and or don't respect Heifetz's playing ability.
@exavian1 Dude... you don't even know how good paganini is because he lived way before recordings. You haven't even heard his playing !!! Sure, people back then thought he was great and he was, but you can't say "I think paganini was better at playing"... Heifetz is the best and always will be.
@fiddlerfanofheifetz ahh but i agree with him because think if paganini wrote well, the hardest violin music of all time i think its safe to assume that mr paggy was pretty damn good if not better then heifetz :P i mean.... he's have to be leet to be able to write that crap :P
@XxTheLightInsidexX Violin is not only about notes, there's so much more. Heifetz sounds good, and plays fast, and he plays all the music inbetween paganini and now. Who knows how fast paganini played his stuff? Who knows if he only sounded good compared to other bad people? There's no way to know.
This is one of my favourite violin compositions, and Mr. Heifetz does it justice...of course. However, for my tastes and ear, and no doubt due to an improved recording, N. Milstein's linked on this page is the better sounding one. Both masterful. Also, listen to the Sonata #3 Allegro Assai played by Milstein. It should leave you breathless.
I agree - As technically perfect as Haifetz can be (though he is not without errors, even on this recording), I have always been completely enamoured of Milstein's ability to make his instrument sing and resonate with the life of the composer himself while Heifetz tosses it off with much less love.
the dinamics,the intanation,the beauty of the sound,i dont think anyone can beat how fast he went!!!!!!!!!!this is beautifull he basicly aced it !!!!!im SPEACHLESS!!!!!!!
For those of you who try and support the argument somewhere along the lines of Heifetz being more mechanical than musical, listen again. His tone is full, dark, and rich. His dynamics, phrasing, articulation, are all extremely precise and accurate, and I'm sure that everything coming from his f holes are coming from the bottom of his heart. Just b/c he can be a master at such a fast tempo, and just b/c he is technically competent, doesn't mean he's not making emotionally brilliant music.
Heifetz was once asked how often do you practice. He replied that he practices every day because, he said, "If I don't practice one day, I know it. If I don't practice two days, my family knows it. And if I don't practice three days, my audience knows it."
True, Paganini was very good and composed extremely difficult pieces, but new ones are arising everywhere. A good example is the Wieniawski Tarantelle, which is quite fast and which I think is just as good as Paganini's Caprices and other hard songs.
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I'm pretty new in the music scene. But his playing strikes me as too mechanical... too rushed. I mean he gets all the notes in the piece, but he lacks some rich emotion. It's too light.
you can't judge a violinist's sense of emotion with a Bach partita, something written to have almost no emotion anyway. I'd recommend checking out some other samples of Heifitz before saying that.
Well, this piece( a baroque partita) was intended to be somewhat of a mechanical challenge rather than richly emotional and the Baroque era was often marked by its formality. Heifetz was known as "the great stone face" because of his lack of expression but his technical skill more than made up for any preceived failings. If you think this piece is light you should watch this video 10 times and on the 10th time I think you will appreciate more the sheer mastery of Heifetz and Bach.
@unetotaleincognito12 Totally agree...I ADORE Szernyg on this one
stringsattached8998 4 days ago
Great! So powerful, so clean, so beautiful, everything is under coltrol.... ;D
kaynanLisboa 1 week ago
I started this piece a week ago
mayfunkymonkey 1 week ago
The hardest thing here is this polyphony of cascading notes -- the ear is more sensitive to the higher notes and it is difficult to project and hear all the notes equally well so that the rhythm driving the prelude can be picked up -- this is what makes many sections truly meaningful, without it some parts might sound like a random jumble of notes. Try listening to this on a harp and you'll see a new meaning to the way this piece goes.
srinitaaigaura 2 weeks ago
@An0niempje Actually that was Heifetz's own opinion of what he thought was expected of him -- he refused to believe otherwise.
But I really wonder why some people take one slight scratch or one note just barely off pitch in one frame in one single video and use it to bash each others' favorite musicians "why my favorite violinist is "God" and yours sucks" and turn the page into a battlefield.
Perfection does not exist -- there are only standards, styles and personal tastes.
srinitaaigaura 2 weeks ago
Wierd. Jascha Heifitz is better than Kriesler, but Kriesler is more famous
mayfunkymonkey 2 weeks ago
Jascha Heifetz!!!!!! gracias por existir! cada ves que te escucho doy gracias por tu virtuosismo!, tambien eras un ser sumamente alegre con tus alumnos avanzados obviamente!
frankcisyarmi 1 month ago
@NexusDoug Yeah, when he was 37 he claimed he had been practicing and playing for about 66000 HOURS! (7.5 years). About 5-6 hours a day on average! He had total musical recall and could remember anything he played from the score by doing it just once. He was also an expert pianist.
He toured 2,000,000 miles in his career, in THOSE days. He was also incredibly efficient at maximizing his practice productivity and despite surgery, still played till he died at 87... now how's that for commitment?
ksviewerx 3 months ago
This makes me think how this man really had to live up to his own legend. I mean the pressure must have been really high - to preform at the prestige that is expected every time. Hours and hours and hours of dedication. This is music.
NexusDoug 3 months ago
i love heifetz! all of his renditions!!!
and though i like this rendition, i'm not sure that heifetz was meant to play bach. i find szeryng interpretation more enjoyable. it's certainly because he was more familiar with bach than heifetz. besides szeryng's playing style seems more appropriate for bach than heifetz's.
but i love heifetz!!!! :)
unetotaleincognito12 5 months ago
damn even God envy his technique!!!
Tr0jan1337 5 months ago
I should play twinkle little star again ....
FNN31 5 months ago
Heifetz..
that one word means amazing!!!
mathewizawesome 6 months ago
@ahpedrami can you link me? sorry i cant find it :/ it would be greatly appreciated.
ZainIslamsAccount 6 months ago
@ZainIslamsAccount just look
laundrymunkey1414 1 month ago
This is amazing, what a fun piece :)
lassie102 7 months ago
What makes it more amazing is that this was how he played all his career. I read he played 200 concerts a year during his peak. How in the world did he maintain his standard with those rigors of constant touring and all ??
I mean you can push to your peak once or twice on occasion when everything falls in place, but sustainability is totally different. Imagine sustaining this level for 60 years + in concert after concert? Then you know just what this man was truly capable of ....
ksviewerx 7 months ago
where can i buy the sheet music for this piece?
ZainIslamsAccount 7 months ago
@ZainIslamsAccount google "imslp", it has everything that's in public domain ie you can download legally for free, including this
ahpedrami 6 months ago
PS : This performance is SUBLIME!
srinitaaigaura 8 months ago
Hmm...Heifetz was right. People didn't enjoy his music as much because the only thing they looked for was when or how often he was going to slip up....and that's all they'd probably take home with them after the concert -- a statistic.
It's the easiest job to criticize and expect impossible things from 'idols', even beyond their own limits. It's another matter that how many of us can or are willing to work so hard and sacrifice so much in life and do even 10% of what he did....
srinitaaigaura 8 months ago 18
@srinitaaigaura You are wrong that errors is the only thing people are looking for. Maybe some people do that, but (i hope) most people really enjoy the music.
Naturally I notice errors and one reason I love Heifetz is that he doesn't make many of them.
An0niempje 2 weeks ago
...wow
limwonhee1 8 months ago
@SoupCan113 It's actually not that hard to memorize. I'm playing it now and I've memorized it. But you're right, his playing is COMPLETELY FLAWLESS!! I cannot do that.
SVJLightBulb 8 months ago
1. When was the film recorded?
2. How does he play so flawless?
3. HOW DO YOU MEMORIZE THAT? haha
SoupCan113 8 months ago
VIRTUOSO!
gaelleman 8 months ago
wow. super!
thegreendestiny 9 months ago
Folks this is a LIVE performance. If you are listening for blemishes you have missed the point about music. The purpose of practicing for perfection is to enable the reduction of inevitable blemishes to a minimum. The odd "goof" is fine, as long as your playing is not littered with them.
mrwasbesonders 9 months ago
@mrwasbesonders
I completely agree because the beauty of it is that most people who listen to this WON'T NOTICE. It still sounds really convincing.
QTtiger9 8 months ago
holy .....! The sound is so thick!!
msutton2006 9 months ago
Brilliant! Thumb up for 1:40. I've never heard someone plays this piece like that. The solo violin sounds like an orchestra playing!
LayerDom 9 months ago 2
Why the 7people hated this?
a3399acd 9 months ago
I love this piece!!!!
spyben3 10 months ago 7
Who wins? Chuck Norris or Jascha Heifetz?
daniel0731ex 10 months ago
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You fool, don't you know that they are the same person?
xiou7lin 9 months ago
@daniel0731ex the forcefield of amazingness created by this piece is no match for chuck norris
claireluck7 8 months ago
How come this video got less views than that Bobby McFerrin Crap?
DinkleberryDelight 10 months ago
@DiexSchwarzexGeige Jascha Heifetz Does Not Mess Up. Unfortunately, You Were Mistakened.
DinkleberryDelight 10 months ago
Is he the best?
Nabilicious90 10 months ago
does he mess up around 2:47?
PJViolin 10 months ago
@PJViolin Jascha Heifetz Does Not Mess Up.
DinkleberryDelight 10 months ago
@DinkleberryDelight unfortunately, he does mess up because in reality, he IS human.
PJViolin 10 months ago
@PJViolin Jascha Heifetz Is Not Capable Of "Messing Up".
DinkleberryDelight 10 months ago
@DinkleberryDelight that depends on what your definition of "messing up" is.
PJViolin 10 months ago
@PJViolin Messing Up = Not Playing The Right Notes. Therefore, Jascha Heifetz does not mess up, for he always plays the right notes.
DinkleberryDelight 10 months ago
@DinkleberryDelight mmmm, you should take a look at his bow. Plus, there is one other recording i know of with a pretty major "note" mistake
PJViolin 10 months ago
@PJViolin
Yes at 2:45 he plays a wrong note/mistake
145321 9 months ago
Yes at 2:45 he goofs
145321 9 months ago
@145321
Heifetz NEVER made a mistake. Just ask Itzhak Perlman
Sesamestrt 8 months ago
I just sat here and drooled on myself for three minutes, awed be the maestro.
dayswordwerewindle 10 months ago
It would be very nice if you two could quit your childish bickering and just enjoy the music.
doranlee10 10 months ago
@DiexSchwarzexGeige One note is hardly messing up. You are obviously anally retentive, and that is my final word on the subject.
mrwasbesonders 10 months ago
@DiexSchwarzexGeige If you just sit back and enjoy without criticising you will feel happier in that moment than if you constantly find fault. And this can be applied to anything, a piece of art, a nice walk, a meal in a restaurant. For me it is a pretty good definition of insanity to sit in a restaurant eating a meal cooked by a great chef and then nit picking about something one could not have cooked oneself. This is exactly the same thing as listening to Heifetz and trying to find fault!!!
mrwasbesonders 10 months ago
@DiexSchwarzexGeige I suppose I give a shit because I am a human being. And when we stop criticising others we can have more compassion for ourselves also and our world becomes a nicer place. This is something I am beginning to apply in my own life, sadly not enough or we would not be having this discussion!!
mrwasbesonders 10 months ago
@DiexSchwarzexGeige You're quite right, though it is a sad state of affairs and frankly probably one of the biggest causes of stage fright. In such an atmosphere it is a miracle when artistry can exist at all.
mrwasbesonders 10 months ago
@DiexSchwarzexGeige Oh, and by the way, you contradicted yourself by saying Heifetz plays the violin perfectly and then "duh, nobody's perfect". And it is a myth about Heifetz's perfection, his playing is always right on the edge, he takes risks that somebody like Oistrakh would not take, invariably those risks don't always come off. It's that level of excitement and intensity that sets him apart from other players.
mrwasbesonders 10 months ago
@DiexSchwarzexGeige NOBODY plays the violin perfectly, because all though there are many objective elements such as rhythm and intonation, there are many more subjective elements. Secondly how much a performance is enjoyed depends on other things than technical perfection, such as artistry, beauty of sound, tonal colours, spontaneity and anyone listening with a judgementally critical ear listening from a point of intolerance prevents themselves from enjoying these things. Tough shit to them!!
mrwasbesonders 10 months ago
@DiexSchwarzexGeige No he didn't, don't be so ridiculous, and even if he did, so what this is music, not open heart surgery. Maybe those of you who are so sad as to listen for mistakes while missing the beauty of the music should restrict yourselves to listening to shitty, pre-recorded, sinthesised music. That will hopefully meet your digital expectations.
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mrwasbesonders 10 months ago
Great but not the greatest..That title belongs to Paganini....
MrBubbaji 10 months ago
Great but not the greatest..That title belongs to Paganini....
MrBubbaji 10 months ago
@MrBubbaji Oh, you've heard him play have you?
mrwasbesonders 10 months ago
It's amazing that he can play this all in tune.
MrChococat119 11 months ago
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Sesamestrt 1 year ago
Im seeing alot of comments on every single video of any musician exclaiming the superiority of the musician to all others CASE CLOSED........ im just saying that type of ignorance is terrible, you should never be so damn close minded, such as living only in one country, your point of view on life is incredibly limited to a little spec. Always be open to new ideas never follow trends always be open.
urbaninjas 1 year ago 2
hilary hahn, look and weep! Moreover, listen and weep ..!!!!!
liliTchaikovsky 1 year ago
@liliTchaikovsky Duh, yeah, it's obvious that a little over 30, Hilary is finished and is never going to get any better! A $5000 fine to anyone who dares praise today's talents!
Ibucrthis 11 months ago
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hannahsprack 1 year ago
that wasn't bad but i prefer szeryng's version.
Shine860530 1 year ago
omigod...so fast...
violinmandarin710 1 year ago
rachmaninoff made this so hard for piano too >( MAGNIFICENT PLAYING best that ever lived
Therachh3 1 year ago
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@DiexSchwarzexGeige@fryfry377 sorry, meant 2:46, not 4:46. but there was no pause, just an absence of tone as his bow glided over the E for a sec without really catching it. Unless you were referencing a different point in the recording or something.
fryfry377 1 year ago
@DiexSchwarzexGeige hah... he didn't *really* mess up, he just didn't really make full contact with his open E-string on one stroke (4:46) and it made a squeaking noise instead of really ringing. still, for Heifetz, that's a mistake. Gotta love how he's kind of phoning this in and it's still brilliant.
fryfry377 1 year ago
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fryfry377 1 year ago
:40 DOWNBOWS! WTF, HEIFETZ! MESSIN WITH MY MIND.
fryfry377 1 year ago
:30 Upbows! BRILLIANT!!!
fryfry377 1 year ago
Absolutely magnificent. One cannot and should not ask for more.
Seanze329 1 year ago
Jascha Heifetz eraaa el tipooo grann solistaaa ... fue unos de los pocos en tener en sus manos un violin strvivarius.... diosss que viva Jascha Heifetz ... que viva el sistema nacional de orquesta en venezuela y que viva chavez :)
lealsi 1 year ago
So clean! This is one of my favourite interpretations, but of course, Szeryng comes first!
Koganification 1 year ago 2
who disliked this, and what is wrong with them?
nimalakers24 1 year ago
Jascha Heifetz..... truly a revered violinist... sparked by virtuoso and energy.. too bad the recording couldnt capture all the echos and reverbs from the concert hall
KoreanMusicBank 1 year ago 42
@KoreanMusicBank It's not really a technological issue ... Heifetz always insisted that the mic was right up next to him instead of further out in the hall, which is why sometimes his playing sounds a little scratchy (stuff that wouldn't be audible in a concert hall)
tikattikatchole 1 year ago
Paganini is a good one too, only that he lived when we cant record his acts
jackfire5000 1 year ago
how do you do 0:24? can anyone teach me i have the sheet music but the fingerings confuse me
Joshuaying 1 year ago
@Joshuaying What edition do you have? Is the fingering or bow confusing you?
violindr 1 year ago
Heifetz is harder to reach and keep up with than the the speed of light!!!!!
I've always said we will sooner inhabit Mars than produce another Heifetz.........
HeifetzRanew 1 year ago
heifetz was a prima donna. an amazing technician, but his renditions of bach are almost distasteful at times. the staccato too clean and pronounced, completely lacks rubato as well. milstein put his heart into this. szerying too. maybe heifetz was an alien. his playing seems to reproach the human element in everything he played. he was a yuppy too. i loathe yuppies. the russian spirit is nowhere to be found in this dude.
poseuresque 1 year ago
@poseuresque Have you heard his recordings of the great concertos, like Tchaikovsky or Brahms or Beethoven or Mendelssohn? He didn't neglect the "human element" in my opinion- he wasn't melodramatic, he was pure. Not so say I don't like Milstein or Szeryng, or that I think this rendition is the best of this piece, but give him some credit. This is beautiful music!
Milky111wtf 1 year ago
@poseuresque -
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Grumiaux?
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hotel283 1 year ago
@poseuresque How is this distasteful because it lacks rubato; it's Bach, not the Vitali Chaconne. And his staccato is clean and pronounced? How is that a bad thing?...and if you say his playing reproached the human spirit, you've obviously never heard any of his other recordings. I also don't see how him being a "yuppy" or not having any "Russian Spirit" affects the quality of music he created.
Chuckles543 1 year ago
best thing about it was, it was really clear, no echos or anything, and he played in one of those rooms that had carpeted walls like in the cinemas.
xXxSp3ctr3xXx 1 year ago
Heeeheee shimonaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
this dude is like Michael Jackson.
Earns a living doing this kinda stuff, but he IS awesome. No doubt about it.
I admire both of 'em.
Mistswirl123 1 year ago
perfect !! this is the best performance of the prelude ever!!!
faravahar0098 1 year ago
Yup~ He plays so great that it makes me speechles... he is astounding!
classiccandle27 1 year ago
its amazing....years later and weve yet to produce anything close to the genius of heifetz...milstein....francescatti...oistrakh
wat id do just to have a lesson from heifetz ahhhhh
wtfpwndzor 1 year ago
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Not too bad but Milstein had a hard time trying to teach this boy how to play the violin properly.
2JAMMY 1 year ago
YEAH YEAH not too bad!
Milstein had a hard time teaching this boy how to play properly.
2JAMMY 1 year ago
Wunderschön
AprilisHolmes 2 years ago
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countryfirst32 2 years ago
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Yes, Heifetz was the best between badest players, in this Partitas N°3-techically wrong, with 2-3 small faults, poor son and clarity, but good "tempo"
my666vs777 2 years ago
The Master 'Heifetz'
gibsonpaddy 2 years ago 8
o0o0o0o0 dios heifetz erro una nota no es cierto no no mames es neta
2:46
tipochris 2 years ago
unbefuckinglievable
billymisfits 2 years ago 4
I was wondering what part of the bow to use. One of the other works uses the tip as well...the B minor work; one of the doubles. Heifetz is one of the references I try to see how a piece is played. It s very nice. Also, I heard from someone...a violin professor...that in some medium, a violin recording, irrespective of the performer, can sound 50 to 100 times WORSE...but that is not by the violinist.
v10lini5t19921993 2 years ago
The recording at that time was so scratchy, and yet he managed this much clarity! Can you imagine how clear this must be in actuality?
animeaff 2 years ago 3
not to mention, this was recorded live and not in the studio!
duhhh86 2 years ago
2.46..??
gibsonpaddy 2 years ago 3
FREIKING AMAZING!! this guy is my hero
Mrtchaikovskyful 2 years ago
Riveting, this is what is known as the Heifetz tempo
goethethegreat 2 years ago
yeah...after growing accustomed to heifetz's rendition, i get impatient with all other renditions...haha...
duhhh86 2 years ago
I think that Nathan Milstein's rendition is definatly worth listening to.
goethethegreat 2 years ago
Was that a frustrated blink at the end? Only the geat Jascha could be frusterated with virtual pervection.
goethethegreat 2 years ago
Where can i find George Enescu playing Bach?
leonidas2956 2 years ago
so grateful to be able to hear and see this.
thank you!
eligarf 2 years ago
wow im a cellist but this is amazing! he has a virtuosity that shines!!!!
daytimecello 2 years ago
Heifetz was a great violinist, unique in his way, but David Oistrakh (who never recorded Bach´s sonatas and partitas) was the greatest. Oistrakh´s sound and musical taste are really prodigious. Listen to his recordings of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius concertossomething very special.
00001111548 2 years ago
this recording quality isn't as good as Milstein's, but there's a wonderful full "ring" when the bow touches the string that comes through regardless of the recording quality. It shows a wonderful bow and violin, of course, but it also reveals an exquisite 'touch" that allows full sound quality from the tiniest touch on the string. 1:32 is a bit muddy, but the quality comes through. at 1:53 it sparkles again...I prefer the Milstein, but it is a case of "first among equals"
Thank you for posting!
PTCello 2 years ago
Uncle sams king david of the violin
gibsonpaddy 2 years ago
simply the best!
liranrok1 2 years ago
i think 3 stars for old ass film
dethpig 2 years ago
rating are so fucked yo think about it your rating how good he did with the video not how good dude plays violin
dethpig 2 years ago
wow i am doin an essay on him for the first time this is cool
nanolie1 2 years ago 2
Sound Quality isn't that great, but hey, it was a long time ago!
ReaIized 2 years ago 3
Si dios fuera violinista, se arrodillaría ante Heifetz ...
duendemacabron 2 years ago
Best violinest that ever lived!
Case closed!!!
stuballs42 2 years ago 24
@stuballs42 Case open!!! Leonid Kogan, Leonidas Kavakos, James Ehnes, Christian Tetzlaff, Itzhak Perlman, Nathan Milstein, Gidon Kremer... and the list goes on!!!
violatione 1 year ago
@violatione List them in order
gibsonpaddy 1 year ago
@stuballs42 What about Paganini?
exavian1 1 year ago
@exavian1 Sorry never heard the man play,if YOU did ,and think he's better ,thats your choice!! Heifetz is the most compared violinest of all times ,and eveyone is always makeing some comparision of this violinest or that one to Heifetz.
Why!!!!! Because Heifetz was the best!!!!
stuballs42 1 year ago
@stuballs42 Well there is no doubt in my mind that Heifetz has been best violinist since Paganini, but I think that Paganini was better at playing, that still doesn't mean that I dislike and or don't respect Heifetz's playing ability.
exavian1 1 year ago
@exavian1 Dude... you don't even know how good paganini is because he lived way before recordings. You haven't even heard his playing !!! Sure, people back then thought he was great and he was, but you can't say "I think paganini was better at playing"... Heifetz is the best and always will be.
fiddlerfanofheifetz 1 year ago
@fiddlerfanofheifetz Well that's my opinion...
exavian1 1 year ago
@fiddlerfanofheifetz ahh but i agree with him because think if paganini wrote well, the hardest violin music of all time i think its safe to assume that mr paggy was pretty damn good if not better then heifetz :P i mean.... he's have to be leet to be able to write that crap :P
XxTheLightInsidexX 1 year ago
@XxTheLightInsidexX Violin is not only about notes, there's so much more. Heifetz sounds good, and plays fast, and he plays all the music inbetween paganini and now. Who knows how fast paganini played his stuff? Who knows if he only sounded good compared to other bad people? There's no way to know.
fiddlerfanofheifetz 1 year ago
@stuballs42 dont be so quick to draw such conclusions, hes only magnificent and unique.
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@stuballs42 YOUR MOTHER IS A BITCH AND SUCK MY COCK UOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH VIVA LA FIGA
simogaia92 1 year ago
This is one of my favourite violin compositions, and Mr. Heifetz does it justice...of course. However, for my tastes and ear, and no doubt due to an improved recording, N. Milstein's linked on this page is the better sounding one. Both masterful. Also, listen to the Sonata #3 Allegro Assai played by Milstein. It should leave you breathless.
mesenteria 2 years ago 3
I agree - As technically perfect as Haifetz can be (though he is not without errors, even on this recording), I have always been completely enamoured of Milstein's ability to make his instrument sing and resonate with the life of the composer himself while Heifetz tosses it off with much less love.
barcalonga 2 years ago
My favorite video ever
taroutak 2 years ago
all i can say is... BRAVO!!!!
violista14 2 years ago
lo maximo este tipo!!!
colsplayboy 2 years ago
O_O. his bow moves SO FAST O_O. amazing O_O
jazzecca2007 2 years ago
vIRtuosi
AllyneTankian 2 years ago 5
Incrivel pra mim a melhor interpretação dessa partita
jeffersonfsoares 2 years ago
Alright then!
freeyourcrt 2 years ago
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Perlman is better, mein opinion..
annamusika 3 years ago
the dinamics,the intanation,the beauty of the sound,i dont think anyone can beat how fast he went!!!!!!!!!!this is beautifull he basicly aced it !!!!!im SPEACHLESS!!!!!!!
bigsis314 3 years ago 7
For those of you who try and support the argument somewhere along the lines of Heifetz being more mechanical than musical, listen again. His tone is full, dark, and rich. His dynamics, phrasing, articulation, are all extremely precise and accurate, and I'm sure that everything coming from his f holes are coming from the bottom of his heart. Just b/c he can be a master at such a fast tempo, and just b/c he is technically competent, doesn't mean he's not making emotionally brilliant music.
chingading 3 years ago 3
only thing that i didnt like about this vid was that it got out of sync around 1/8 of the way through.
brainwasher9876 3 years ago
He gets a spiccato above the middle of the bow.
DarwinsHamster 3 years ago
Heifetz was once asked how often do you practice. He replied that he practices every day because, he said, "If I don't practice one day, I know it. If I don't practice two days, my family knows it. And if I don't practice three days, my audience knows it."
sanval1a 3 years ago 2
nice comment
nl25c 2 years ago 2
Pepe Pérez is better
majibango 3 years ago
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ZapateroBosse 3 years ago
heifetz is famous on bach prtita no.3 in E
DHcello 3 years ago
Yay I can play the 1st 2 page of this now!
goodcommentguy 3 years ago 2
Good Job!
i'm playing this too.
I'm finished it already,
but I'm far from mastering it just like Heifetz
kelly0216 3 years ago
True, Paganini was very good and composed extremely difficult pieces, but new ones are arising everywhere. A good example is the Wieniawski Tarantelle, which is quite fast and which I think is just as good as Paganini's Caprices and other hard songs.
goodcommentguy 3 years ago
Wieniawski was born while Paganini was still living, and his Scherzo-Tarantelle is considerably easier than the Paganini Caprices.
cromulentinnoc3nce 3 years ago
he may be the best virtuoso of modern times .. but more are arising every year, all over the world
and no matter what anyone says .. Nicolo Paganini was, is, and always will be, the greatest violinist of human history.
Loboguy 3 years ago
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I'm pretty new in the music scene. But his playing strikes me as too mechanical... too rushed. I mean he gets all the notes in the piece, but he lacks some rich emotion. It's too light.
QueenOfZebra 3 years ago
I agree with you.
nafets9876 3 years ago
thats been the criticism of heifetz for decades.
flipkid814 3 years ago
When you close your eyes does it really matter?
ptrefftz 3 years ago
First you have to remember that this is an old recording and secondly the faster the music, the less nuance you can put in.
Chopin742 3 years ago
you can't insult the best in the world.
kelly0216 3 years ago 3
you can't judge a violinist's sense of emotion with a Bach partita, something written to have almost no emotion anyway. I'd recommend checking out some other samples of Heifitz before saying that.
tofudogcurry 3 years ago
Well, this piece( a baroque partita) was intended to be somewhat of a mechanical challenge rather than richly emotional and the Baroque era was often marked by its formality. Heifetz was known as "the great stone face" because of his lack of expression but his technical skill more than made up for any preceived failings. If you think this piece is light you should watch this video 10 times and on the 10th time I think you will appreciate more the sheer mastery of Heifetz and Bach.
sanval1a 3 years ago
A stone face, maybe, but you can tell by listeing that he was enjoying himself.
winston5610 3 years ago
a stone face, because the feeling is in the music. close your eyes and listen.
oldgoat5 2 years ago 5