Yehudi Menuhin plays "hora staccato"

[mllhartshorn]

I'm 99% sure that little boy in the picture is Nigel Kennedy.

[TourdeStockton]

Yehudi Menuhin gave his first public performance in San Francisco at the ripe old age of eight!

[SG14ever]

I prefer Heifetz's because it's more whimsical, but Menuhin still kicks my ass...

[manuelergcruz]

This is Heifetz's arrangement of a Grigoras Dinicu composition..and Menuhin, while injecting some of his style, played it with all due respect to Heifetz and Dinicu..and Menuhin got all the respect in return..

[themusicdr]

closest to enescu - obvious given that he was menuhin's teacher

[MrJohnNica]

Super ....un evreu celebru cantand muzica populara romaneasca......

[lanarv]

..Michael Rabin..:-)

[dialectgirl]

Wooooooooonderful!!! :):):) Thank you!

[coromano]

menuhin: closest to his master [?father?] Enescu

still lacks the feeling the composer [Dinicu] ment; Dinicu's performances here on youtube are less valuble, being filmed mainly in restaurants or at events;

heifetz brings it to brahms & chopin, thus losing the idea of this totally different dance

[wheresyourwoodyatt]

For whom this may concern,Menuhin is under-rated in his contributions to the world of violin.

He was a brilliant explorer of history, philosophy and culture, and an ambassador to the East. His book Violin is a great contribution to our world. I suggest anyone who has anything bad to say about Lord Menuhin first devotes his/her life to this instrument with an open mind, practices yoga daily and writes many a book before getting on his/her high horse and saying who's 'better'. Keep an open mind.

[paixiao7]

you can tell he's been working with a romanian teacher(enescu)...because the style in which he plays is very appropriate and close to the traditional manner of playing romanian folklore on the violin

[SteauaBucuresti]

Menuhin through Enescu, Oistrakh through Boulanger, Heifetz, through Dinicu, and Perlman´s grandparents being born in Romania. All of them spoke Romanian, and had romanian and jewish soul. What can you do? Romanians just do stuff better.

[wheresyourwoodyatt]

@SteauaBucuresti Perhaps they do...but let's not discount that this is the 20th century, and tradition lives on in different ways now. We'll see in 100 years where the best violinist are coming from. Ysaye wasn't Romanian, nor Paganini or Vivaldi... La revaderra!

[ViolinJeroen]

why always comparing with another one of the greatest!! The best flying-staccato has Gitlis,

[RachetaNeagra]

One of my favorite Romanian traditional songs.

[alkiss5]

Бриллиант 

[patthecatman]

"hora staccato" was played for many years as intro to john b. gambling's early morning radio show. he had a small orchestra to play it and referred to it as the smallest symphony orchestra in the world.

[MegaAntim]

Searche: Grigoraş Dinicu - Hora lui Dobrică "Hora lui Dobrica"

[MegaAntim]

Searche: "Hora lui Dobrica"

[dilibau]

this is the best version interpreted by a foreigner that I've ever heard on youtube (and I'm at about the 50th different interpretation so far...), but no one plays this better than a Romanian (Grigoras Dinicu himself or Liviu Prunaru)

[sdoruconstantin]

In the right side, you have the original version of Dinicu....so, just listen !

[marcelrenault9]

Romanian music!

[AlexRo2000]

@marcelrenault9 Romani Romanian :)

[gibsonpaddy]

Heifetz rendition is much better

[Lisnageeragh]

@gibsonpaddy yes agree much more sense of the wildness of the music ..a better sense of a ore traditional quality.

[Ivanhoe2]

I think that a most sensible comment by "rawautube".  If only that principle was applied to all,, we would see much less of the tedious partisan bigotry. Many thanks for posting.

[basaldellaroberto]

Yehudi Menuhin a fost ucenicul,discipolul,mostenitor­ul spiritual al lui George Enescu.Era mai roman decat multi din Romania...

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

Charlie Daniels does a rip roaring version of Hora Staccato too.

[ofleus]

romania the best

[goroundit123]

great recording by Yehudi...

[hnk777]

Although the greats all have something to offer I still think it is ok to say one is better than another for certain pieces. That doesn't mean one has to shut out the others.

[tijana2002]

Great !

[hnk777]

Heifetz's is better. The tone quality is more brilliant too.

[ricouchaisemusicale]

Stupid !!! Heifetz was only a show man

[CrazyJimKU]

No, I'm better.

/Sarcasm

[ElPiconeroalCognac]

You're all wrong. CrazyJim is better. :D

[rawautube]

I hate it when I hear the old arguement of who is better;Heifetz,Menuhin,Perlman­,Oistrakh...They all have some thing that the others don't have so I really pitty those that only listen to one of them.

[rawautube]

idiot

[themusicdr]

@rawautube so true

let's open our ears to the multitude of greatness before us

[galanisj]

@rawautube hear dinicu to see who is the best!

[viharsarok]

@rawautube Having a personal preference is perfectly reasonable. I like Heifetz more than Menuhin.

[gibsonpaddy]

i totally agree

[ipmoic]

Another marvel from Menuhin's youth--age 14. Never heard it played better.

It's true that that Dinicu gives it more of a gypsy flavor and audaciousness. But for superlative technique combined with musicianship, give me this recording anytime.

Superb--jaw-dropping!

[violatione]

You all should listen to Grigoras Dinicu play this. It will blow your mind!!!!

[goroundit123]

noprodigyboy...thank you...for taking the time and trouble...gorgeous recording...

[blichilde]

Grazie. E' davvero una meraviglia.

[jaschenski]

The best! I love the way he deliberately plays the F#s a bit too flat to give it that gypsy flavour!

[andrei128]

Arund 1930 .

[ipmoic]

Would love to know the date of this recording.

Wonderful playing and so nuanced!

[ForeverIsis]

Wonderfull!!!!!

[ForeverIsis]

Wonderfull!!

[cjh37878]

I actually like Menuhin's version more than Heifetz's.

[Ishayau]

@cjh37878 I love Menuhin he is a virtuoso of the violin. But Heifetz's playing this piece … THE PERFECTION OF PERFECTION, period! Let the public decide: In youtube; Jascha Heifetz plays Hora Staccato

[shiveringflower]

@Ishayau In one youtube performance Heifetz clearly loses power as the bow approaches the tip.

[Ishayau]

You could be correct ,

but It’s not about technique, when I listen to these amazing virtuosos I close my eyes and feel the music!

[kalimuzza]

Favoloso. Un grazie a noprodigyboy.