Jascha Heifetz Beethoven Violin Concerto

Jascha Heifetz performing Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major 3rd movement. Jascha Heifetz with the Boston Symphony Orchestra & Charles Munch conducting

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• violin
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[Xovian70]

what ever. this guy 'jasha'? thats randy watson, 'dat boy good' leave him and the conductor alone and just enjoy this piece. btw i love the bassoons at 3:05

[frankcisyarmi]

 idolo Jascha !!!!!

[trimar42]

ave

merci pour le partage de ce moment inoubliable

fred from france

[musicfanBRA]

Wonderful performance and clear recording sound, thanks for posting! 

[SatchmoSings]

@daywalker81 I have expressed an opinion A) I'm not a big fan of the Munch reign at the BSO and B) that the earlier recordings by Heifetz both in regard to the Beethoven AND Brahms violin concertos are preferable, not because Heifetz plays better but because of the orchestral accompaniment.

The orchestral part of a concerto is also something to be considered in a performance, not just the soloist.

Obviously a miserable patheticness, such as yourself, can't comprehend this.

[daywalker81]

@SatchmoSings

Have you actually nothing better to do than stuff your shitty opinions down everyones throat? I can see that all of your comments on this video are about the same thing.

Dude, I understand that you have a difficult time being able to impress people in real life. However, what you are doing here is plain pathetic..

[SatchmoSings]

@billyguns2 Thank you for your fair-minded and even-tempered response.

Now then, to change the subject slightly, what do you think of the 1940 Toscanini-Heifetz recording of this work?

(It was done in a large radio [now TV] studio, not Carnegie Hall.)

[billyguns2]

@SatchmoSings "STudio" recordings is a generic term for any recording that was not recorded in a live performance; semantics. {erhaps I should have said "commercially released" recording; is that better? No, Munch wasn't in the same overall league as Furtwangler, Toscanini, Klemperer, Karajan, Reiner, Stokowski, Beecham, Weingartner, Szell and a few others, but I find him better and more interesting than many conductors of today.

[SatchmoSings]

@billyguns2 If you think Munch was a good conductor, that's your business; I don't.

I have "Daphnis et Chloe" (and it wasn't recorded in a studio; it was recorded in Symphony Hall) and I don't find it a particularly inspired performance at all.

Indeed, in "going over" all the major conductors who had careers, I put Munch and Ormandy at or near the bottom.

[billyguns2]

@SatchmoSings "Sloppy" and "dull" are most certainly terms I would not use to describe the many thrilling performances i heard with Munch and the BSO; even Herbert Von Karajan liked to play Munch's recording of LA MER as a demonstration of amazing tempi and atmosphere, and his studio recordings of DAPHNIS ET CHLOE and many other French masterpieces are marvelous, not to mention the incandescent playing of the orchestra,