Jascha Heifetz plays Melodie by Gluck

wow! so hypnotically beautiful!

OMG, I swear I totally thought the same thing, and I was so happy to know I'm not the only one :D

ive always been jealous of his long ass fingers, and how the neck of the violin can be so deep between his thumb and first finger....and the bomb ass vibrato

heifetz is a master but in some of hes pieces he plays to fast but this is wonderful end the best version i ever seen

does anyone notice how at 1:55-1:56 and at 2:05-2:06 he tilts the bow from one side of the hair to the other very rapidly, and not gradually. Usually one is told by a good teacher to flatten the hair towards the tip gradually to not lose the sound. but he does is with 1 inch of bow right at the tip, and he doesn't even flatten, he goes to the other side of the hair. And we don't even hear this change...amazing bow technique per usual from JH. Very interesting trick...

Hi

Very good and very melodic

Regards

Richard ;)

took the melodic minor scale and turned it into harmonic minor....it's done often to make the feel more exotic and to create more tension (the minor 6th to the raised 7th creates a minor 3rd interval, more intense than the otherwise diatonic scale

I get sea-sick watching him play. I rather just listen to his rather free yet well thought-out playing. Sounds improvisatory but with tremendous knowledge behind every note. All in all I had seen and heard others closer to my taste and heart.