Heifetz - Primrose - Mozart's Sinfonia concertante mvt1/1

[pauloerdos1]

They are booth fantastic. !

[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.

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

@purbanegoro You sound like you're biased towards Italian violinists

[shitzulovey]

I bought a primrose, actually I bought two as I could not chose the yellow or the white so both came home, lovely flower and smells so nice, and they have a song!!!!

I think they deserve a better happier song.

[Milky111wtf]

@shitzulovey Um, Primrose is the name of the violist. This song is not dedicated to primroses... XD

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

Does anybody know if Primrose actually tuned his strings up a half step in this recording? His viola sounds a little different but it could just be the recording so I'm curious.

[QuintusVIIV]

yes, i think you´re right. there was even a name for it (i mean when they tune it up a bit). "to scordinate(...?), or what ever the tuning was called. can some 1 remind me of the exact name?

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

It's scordatura

[wprimrose]

@AbsoluteZ3R0 Primrose didn't tune his viola up for this recording. If you listen closely, you can hear open a's, d's etc.

[peterCheater]

@wprimrose Didn't he play it in a different key ???? 

[lizmallett]

bugs, heifetz may be amazing but primrose is a star in his own right - considered one of the if not the greatest violists of our century

[mojozohobo]

Id have to say "the best of the 20th century"

[ipmoic]

I don't see why a discussion of the tempo here leads people to mark someone's comment as spam. Certainly one can argue that this performance is not Allegro Maestoso. It's More like Allegro Brillante. It's very fast. Nobody said that Heifetz stinks, or Primrose stinks--they just think this is awfully fast. It is. So what?

[3005203845963]

first time im gonna challenge the wisdom of heifetz...i think this was played too fast...and it somehow doesnt sound like mozart O_O

[mojozohobo]

Its because mozart wrote it as a favor for one of Hayden's sons so its a bit out of his style

[gerryrains]

Mozart didn't write the tempo this fast - this is the choice of the conductor, Heifetz, and whoever the violist may have been. Does anybody know the name of the violist, conductor, or orchestra?

You should be aware that this is considered to be one of Mozart's greatest works for that period.

10 + 364/25 = 24-25 years of age. He was not yet in his prime.

[junnai22]

If this is from Heifetz's Double Concerto recording then the violist is William Primrose, the conductor, Izler Solomon and the orchestra the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra.

[Cantormatis]

@mojozohobo Haydn did not have children. He did have a brother who lived and worked in Salzburg, however, and who was a friend of Mozart.

[BugsWisely]

regardless of tempo; seems to me that either some or even all are anxious with heifetz's condensation of the bars. he is playing perfectly if not stubbornly. i think the same way he had trouble with slowing down; the rest of this crew is having trouble speeding up. heifetz is the purpose tho' so the least you could expect is professional musicians being able to speed up without all that anxiety.

[DANILISHINA]

stirring performance, very well done video, thanks!