Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz, Toscha Seidel

Tracks.:
1. Fritz Kreisler - Larghetto
2. Jascha Heifetz - Debussy - La plus que lente
3. Toscha Seidel - Korngold "much ado" suite - III

Category:

Music

Tags:

• heifetz
• kreisler
• seidel
• auer
• virtuoso
• violin
• violinists
• ysaye
• classical
• concerto
• largo
• debussy
• korngold
• elman
• paganini
• wieniawski
• stradivari
• stradivarius

[241hnd]

What was the instrument Heifetz was playing at 4:13?



[dkurgano]

@241hnd

haha, not an instrument, that's his cane. looks kind of like a violin. he is being funny :)

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

Heifetz's playing is so beautiful, it baffles me as to why people call him unemotional. Honestly, I've never understood it.

[dkurgano]

yes! he is quite possibly the pinnacle of emotive violin playing ;)

[mattriarch]

Did Kreisler write the piece he's playing?

[dkurgano]

yes

[lightningfax]

Kreisler, Heifetz, and Seidel...

Quite possibly the three greatest violinists in the world ever.

[Skeleton002]

*musicians,especially dirigents beware of facial,it is another field of art.***We are to

concentrate to hearing.***

[robotnik77]

It was also nice to see the pictures of Mischa Elman and Eugene-Auguste Ysaye, with his son, Antoine, even though Elman and Ysaye did not perform in this clip. Thank you.

[harrynking777]

@AbsoluteZ3R0 This probably because people use their eyes and impressions rather than listening.

[TheTucsonJeff]

@AbsoluteZ3R0 People who call Heifetz unemotional aren't listening to the music. They're apparently disturbed by the fact that Heifetz never danced around on stage or made facial expressions like some of today's violinists (e.g. Joshua Bell). Heifetz chose to actually concentrate on what he was doing which, of course, made him a better violinist.

[poseuresque]

@MrTheComposer agreed. seidel was perfect. the quick vibrato and portamenti are artifacts of that wonderful russian school of phrasing. it's a pity more americans don't study the phrasing, just the bow technique. and too few of us really attempt to understand the technique there, just an approximation of the grip

[2ndviolinist]

Where did you get these pictures, they are amazing?

[closetviolinista]

I have many favorite videos, but this one I keep coming back to again and again. This is the gold-standard for phrasing, technique, bow-control and all around perfect musicianship. It gets me lost in music history from which I never want to return.