Elizabeth Pitcairn plays Hora Staccato

Elizabeth Pitcairn plays Hora Staccato, composed by Dinicu and arranged and made famous by Jascha Heifetz. Accompanied by legendary Hollywood film composer Artie Kane at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Washington. www.redviolin.net

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[eserebcin]

Some of you are truly talking utter rubbish. What gives anyone the authority to say how a certain piece should be played? Is there no room for interpretation? If thats the case, then only one person should ever play a particular song, the composer. My belief is that each composition is open to interpretation by the performer, and that is one of the greatest assets of music.

[msiu]

well, to be fair to heifetz, those are written as down bow staccatos, which are more difficult, so doing them upbow is a liiiittle bit of cheating... but I do like the effect here.

[IcarusDrowning88]

@FlierFrank172 I'm not so sure she even plays it well... I've seen students play this better. It may be because she uses quite a bit of upper arm/shoulder tension, which really isn't the case with Heifetz or Rabin. There's even a clip of Ferras playing this with the same approach, arm tension, which doesn't go so well.

[ducklordgabe]

Omgosh, I saw her today <3 she played beautiful music.

[ilmargav]

Good job Liz! Hi from Ilmar

[marytlt]

her staccato is phenomenal

[fabiviolina]

someone can help me on how to get my staccato faster =( ?

[oneoctavelow]

@FlierFrank172 Look everyone has a right to music - my statement is not political. What I am saying is that she plays the piece with a 'western accent' and to a Romanian it sounds unconvincing. I don't mean to sound imodest but since you're pressing the point I probably play it better than her myself... its really no big deal, its all in the trills. Have a listen to G. Dinicu here on the tube. Listen to it, you may understand why Heifetz once regarded Dinicu as the greatest he has heard.

[FlierFrank172]

@oneoctavelow ...Going by what you say maybe only Russians can play compositions by Rachmaninoff or Tchaikovsky ? Only Germans playing Wagner, et al? What about Australians playing "Waltzing Matilda" ?

[TonicMike]

@oneoctavelow Do you consider Heifetz to be a westerner? He was the one who put in the upbow/downbow staccatos.

[ploutan]

Brilliant Elizabeth, just brilliant ! Bravo !

[joparkeruk]

VERY WELL PLAYED! I often find this piece played so fast that I can't listen to it. I like the way you played it and you played it just like the Heifetz transcription is, without avoiding the down-bow staccato. You make it sound really nice too, thank you