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To all those people who are criticisizing Heifetz's technique, just remember that this is not his prime playing. Anyway, there are very few who can match or surpass even this level of playing (which is not Heifetz's prime).

@PD85s It's the same piece. Everything is just variations on a theme....sortof. I don't know about that, but this entire thing is one piece for sure. :)

@takamori400 He never properly learned how to play the violin. He was THE prodigy to end all prodigies, being able to just pick up a violin from a young age and just play ridiculously well. If you compared Menuhin's young learning years to Heifetz's, you could see the difference. Also, others say...

@jazzzabout jazz, the only thing David Garrett can do is publicize about how fast he can play things. That is not a style. There are lots of people who can play just as fast as he can, but with musicality, making them have a style. Please learn to distinguish an artist and a showsman

There are a lot of violinists who can play fast, I don't see why this guy gets so much attention.

@LockePhilote Hey....we violinists/violists love being able to show off our technique by playing this caprice as it was written. :D

@jonboy700 i can't tell if the recording seems fast forwarded?

@98jaym not all string quintets, there are also cello quintets

Menuhin's full bow strokes look just a little bit exaggerated. It might just be 'cause of his playing style, but it is kind of troubling to watch Oistrakh give Menuhin the "eye" as Menuhin does those bow strokes. >.>

I prefer Kogan's rendition of this concerto. However, looking at Menuhin's pinky vibrato is like.....jaw dropping

It's sad that not so many people know about Kogan, compared to Heifetz and Oistrakh and Menuhin. I daresay he is up there with the top performers of the time

@taylorzhnag it's only a 16 1/2-17" Many violists play on that size

@seattlegrrlie Who is first?

I daresay that this is one of my favorite versions, alongside with Christian Ferras's playing of this concerto.

the little spasms that Oistrakh's head makes when he's playing certain passages is kind of funny. I daresay that I rate the 3 best Tchaikovsky interpretations to be Milstein's, Heifetz's, and Oistrakh's.

To me, Milstein is what Heifetz would look like if he played with more motion (physically)

@vuth94 they typically play 2 concertos, including the Tchaikovsky and one other. There are some Tchaikovsky Competition XIII videos on here I think with Kamio and a Russian guy, they play both the Tchaikovsky and a Sibelius.

So.....do people enjoy Rostropovich's fast tempos or the usual tempo? (most of Rostropovich's performances are fast).

@jaredkipe He does a combination of all of them lol

Question for all of you classical music people out there. Do YOU prefer Bach with vibrato or without?

This is actually a pretty slow tempo. There's this crazy video with Primrose finishing the entire movement in like.....1 minute. I actually prefer something slightly faster, but Maisky is amazing.

@Yotes4Life Who would listen to Justin Bieber? Especially if they just listened to this? I'd just move on to the next movement or next suite :D

This is by far the greatest playing of this piece as I've ever heard it. It astounds the mind as to what a musician is capable of doing with what is considered a "simple" and "outdated" instrument in these hip-hop times. As a violist/violinist myself, I can only aspire to be as good these greats....

If you listen to Zukerman playing, you can obviously hear the E string, which a viola does not typically have (5 string viola exception). Also, in the video there are several times where you get to observe Zukerman playing and he obviously plays G note strings on his lowest strings, which should ...

An Awesome performance. However, I do not like Muller-Schott's screaming of the top notes of phrases without using vibrato. I prefer the Zukerman/Perlman version myself. I got to go to a concert where Julia Fischer played with the Chicago Symphony, and I must also say I don't like the way she mak...

@porpoisefathom It's a school of thought to raise the elbow/shoulder high when playing on an instrument. Generally though, the vast majority of us musicians cannot do so for a long period of playing and/or have a great career because it does not promote longevity. So the "rules" that you probably...

@SpikeE88 Those 3 are the big 3 competitions that everyone knows. Does he NEED to do the Queen Elisabeth Competition?

Personally, I dislike Zukerman's playing. Especially in this recording, Zukerman has too much of a presence where it'd be nice to hear more of Perlman. Also, the passage with the grace notes that they trade off....Zukerman plays WAY too much at the beginning. It doesn't flow at all. They've done ...

Great playing, although I don't know whether you intended to have many of those chord changes strangely pronounced (broken up with gap in between the notes) , or that was the acoustic of the room. Because I heard it off and on, maybe it was a stylistic thing you were doing?