Jascha Heifetz - Elgar Violin Concerto in b (1st mov p1-2)

Jascha Heifetz plays Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61.

1. Allegro

Malcolm Sargent and the London Symphony Orchestra.

June 6, 1949

HQ Audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Os6cko-mY&fmt=18

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[petrof4056]

It's my favorite concerto. Not bad by Heifetz but I prefer the Menuhuin version in 1939 with Elgar as conductor.

[jepdez]

u got taste man

[addict245]

2 people can play better than Heifetz

[windstorm1000]

@Allanfearn H. did not get the English dryness!! I wouldn't be surprised if Sargent set him up. Its a good story and it would be delicious if another historian would confirm. Thanks for sharing. I adore Elgar--the man of secret sorrows--as opposed to Tchakovsky who wore them on his sleeve (love him too). With Elgar all is not as it appears to be---man of many moods--but repressed---he poured them in a veiled way into his works, which makes his music twice as appealing.

[windstorm1000]

I think this THE best Violin Concerto---it covers a wider emotional landscape than all the rest (yes, even more than the Brahms)--and is technically challenging as well. Its always a fault to say 'so and so' were depressed when they composed. But one wonders with Elgar--what he was going through here--crisis? gloom? That upright Victorian gentlemen had another side, obviously, and it comes out in his glorious music.

[windstorm1000]

Elgar's themes r at first hearing 'Tchaikovtikian'---but then you wait a few more bars--and there is a curious English reticence to the passion---the keys r veiled in wistfulness (only English composers have this). Its like the composer half buries the tragedy in this quiet emotion--& then the tragedy comes up like a cork in betweens patches of green landscape. This makes it no less emotional--or tragic-but tragedy of a different kind. This is the emotional landscape of E.'s Violin Concerto..

[aaron1tatamovich]

There is no better performance than this:

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He´s AMAZING

[petrof4056]

@JanForest it's a mistake from me two years ago, I was talking about a recording from 1932 of course. I'm looking for the Albert Sammons performance I don't find yet

[JanForest]

@petrof4056 How is that possible when he died 1934??

[egonsky]

Dont talk about other violinists under a Heifetz vid ...there is no sence!!!.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@assindiastignani Thank you for mentioning Kreisler. He is seems to live in the shadows of the likes of Hahn these days.

[aniabla89]

Elgar. EL-GAR!!

I think that is the best thing I have ever heard.

one word to explain this piece: divine.