Because a member started this thread, just like the Zappa and Cover threads.
During the Second World War Heifetz traveled to the Europe & played for American & British GI’s. At the end the concert he would tell them, “now I’m going to play some Bach. You may not like it but, like spinach, it’s good for you.” When he finished playing the GI’s stood & shouted, “more spinach!”
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I LOVE Heifetz, besides unmatched skills, there is something in his music that always move me deeply;
Sometimes just being a good human comes through.
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Well said @aiki14
In 1917, 16 year old Jascha Heifetz made his Carnegie Hall debut, with most of the great violinists & musicians living in New York in attendance. Pianist Leopold Godowsky shared a box with violinist Mischa Elman who was 10 years older than Heifetz & had studied with the same teacher, Leopold Auer. As the concert went on, Ellman became visibly uncomfortable. Finally, he turned to Godowsky and said, “It’s hot in here, isn’t it?” to which Godowsky responded, “Not for pianists.”
What made Ellman sweat that afternoon is on full display on this stunning recording.
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Analogue Productions SACD. First class performances, terrific remastering of a terrific recording. In the Prokofiev, the outer movements are dazzling & I’ve never heard, or expect hear, a more beautifully played middle movement. Heifetz at the top of his game.
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Analogue Productions SACD
Two great performances. Not the unmatchable clarinet opening in Rhapsody in Blue of Stanley Drucker (which you get on the marvelous Bernstein recording) but fine nonetheless & Earl Wild’s playing is both idiomatic & brilliant. Fiedler is in his element & the Boston Pops fully capture the spirit & swing of this music. The recording is one of RCA’s best, the beautiful tone of Wild’s piano in particular.
Performances that help you understand what writer John O’Hara was feeling when he wrote,
“George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe that if I don’t want to."
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Sheku Kannah-Mason. Saw him in concert at the end of January. Beautiful performance of Saint-Saens Cello Concerto.
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The Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall has a performance from January of Barenboim playing the Beethoven 3rd piano concerto & Schubert’s Impromptu in A flat major, D935 no. 2 as an encore on this marvelous instrument. Suk’s Astrael Symphony rounds out the program. Worth hearing if you have access, which for newcomers, is free for 30 days.
Two good new releases…what would the world be without Rodrigo. Great play, full guitar sound, quite some reverb. Nice atmosphere.
And this one is simply really very interesting new/old music.
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Several recordings in my collection but the SACD of this beautiful performance is the one playing today.
Happy Easter to all who celebrate the day.
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Great long excerpt from Die Walküre. For the Wagnerians out there.
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A revelation in surround sound! Had the original in quadraphonic back in college, but this is better in almost every way. Check out their website for some classics…
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Another treasure chest to spend countless pleasurable hours exploring.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer ended his 1977 biography of Mozart with these remarks:
“In all likelihood, the caesura of his death did not even disturb Mozart’s most intimate circle, and no one suspected…when the fragile, burned-out body was lowered into a shabby grave, that the mortal remains of an inconceivably great mind was being laid to rest - an unearned gift to humanity, nature’s unique, unmatched, and probably unmatchable work of art.”
The evidence in support of that statement is all here.
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