Couldn't agree more!

Do you think he is better than Kreisler? Just asking

@@robertoandonie9257 yes

Yes

@@robertoandonie9257 Kreisler was a great violinist, too.

Kreisler was Heifetz's idol. He hung his picture, and his picture alone, in his studio.

Only when he had a violin in his hand. All other times.... sheesh, Ayke Agus' book was not warts and all, it was all warts. So let's just admire the divine playing and be grateful to hear such artistry.

Did he insist?

Well, it certainly was his idea alone, and they weren't about to cross him.

@@Twentythousandlps What's your source? I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm just interested in what led to this debacle.

He wanted the performance to be just him and the orchestra without “third party” (conductor) involvement.

By that point Heifetz was beginning to fall out with pretty much everyone actually. He didn't like conductors forcing their ideas on his. Apparently he only agreed to do this if there was no conductor. While his abilities as a violinist and musician remained supreme, mentally he was beginning to get very moody, cranky, even depressed. The last 2 decades of his life were a slow, very torturous decline. Only music and the efforts of the few who dared to stay and put up with him helped him. After this concert he declared he had played enough concertizing for a lifetime and only gave recitals for a couple of years more. It's all in Ayke Agus's book. Jim Hoyl the man was a very tortured soul, while Jascha Heifetz was the world's supreme violinist.

Secondo te i francesi non apprezzavano la sua musica?

agree, probably that's why Heifetz himself later hated this performance and felt embarrassed by it

That leader was wearing bycicle clips because he was actually shitting himself.

@@SylviaXTan Heifetz had become a very difficult man by this point. He fell out with everyone who didn't do it his way and only agreed to do this without a conductor. And wasn't too happy and never did another recital with an orchestra again...

violinhunter2 The ending was fine.

Oh - and I suppose he told you this himself… 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Gershwin "It ain't necessaarily so".

@@philipgreenberg3864 I played this amazing opera in Chicago 1983.

This rehearsal should be for the only one television appearance of Mr. Heifetz in 1970 with the French National Orchestra in Paris for American broadcast. There is another live video of this event on KZfaq. Just search by Heifetz Scottish Fantasy.

At the beginning was Kreisler's Präludium and Allegro.. Then it went to the first.. Second and other movements from The Scottish Fantasy from Max Bruch.. And in between was excerps of the LOVE of the Three Oranges.. from Prokovief. If I missed anything sorry.. Oh yes.. the Girl with the Red blond (Flaxen) hair.. A traditional irish-american Melody.. But i forgot the composer...oh yes I forgot G. Gerschwin 's IT AINT NECESSAIRILY SO from Porgy and Bess.. This rendition was arranged by Heifetz

It really sounds like Milstein

+daleelashea Yes.

They had the same teacher Although Heifetz vibrato is unique

Princesses of violin

I also think that it's played by Milstein

You hear the Preludium and Allegro at beginning

It ain´t neceserely so, from the opera Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin.

The man is a paragon. Unrivalled. Paganini? We ll never know. But we will always have Jascha. MW

Yesssss i need it too

It's his arrangement of "It ain't necessarily so" by George Gershwin.

got it..thanQ..

Thankssssssss

Not that simple. He was also born with a brain and body that were perfectly suited to implement his desires and dedication!

Pablo de Sarasate: "A genius! For 37 years I have practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius!"

He also happened to be born with a violinist father. No small advantage.