Paganini's melodies have a vivacity and charm woven into them that makes him unique on the compositional spectrum. Some people find his music mechanical and uninteresting, but after hearing this delightful third movement, I would hope that this changes their views (or should I say their ears!)
My boyfriend is that way, in that I think he just finds the music to be about virtuosity without much beauty. But I agree with you. I always found Paganini to be as talented a composer as he was a violinist. His music fills me with immense joy!!!
Szeryng was a fabulous with chamber music. Not all violinist share such a distinction. Eugene Fodor & Michael Rabin, for example, were basically known for Paganini & the like. Heifetz was a well-rounded violinist who was the best at everything he did, which is unique. Artur Rubinstein liked performing chamber music more with Szeryng than he did with Heifetz. Szeryng reminds me of good taste, sophistication, perfection & intellectual maturity. Few of today's violinists have that.
Уважаемый, готов вполне разделить Ваше мнение !!! - очень точные слова... Мне по возрасту не привелось его ни видеть, ни слышать его живое исполнение - но то, что оставил этот величайший гигант заставляет преклонить перед ним колени и всячески благодарить, что миру на полсотни лет было дано такое удовольствие - слышать звуки его скрипки !!!
Note the courage it takes to attempt this piece. All but forgotten, Szering was teaching history? in Mexico City. Later to emerge as an equal to all other soloists in his day. He still holds first place above all others in solo Bach. Listen to how his vibrato touches all the little notes.
Szeryng, deberia estar alli arriba con las estrellas porque no hay otro que consiga los sentimientos con con un violin como el. En mi apreciacion personal es el violinista mas completo del siglo xx
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR SHARING SZERYNG !!!! Szeryng born in Zelazowa Wola -Poland,(like Heifetz -born in Wilno Poland,Huberman born in Czestochowa ,Poland ) is one of those last true VIOLIN VIRTUOSOS and among those he is THE ONLY ONE !!! WHO DARED TO PLAY CONCERTS WITH PAGANINI!!! AND RECORDED IT !!! HEIFETZ NEVER DID !!! KREISLER CUT CAMPANELLA of MOST DIFFICULT PART WHILE PLAYING IT..SO ONLY HENRYK SZERYNG AMONG THOSE VIOLIN"S TYTANS DARED TO PLAY PAGANINI IN PUBLIC !!!AND HOW FANTASTIC HE IS !!!!! HE WAS ALSO A GREAT MAN!! IN 1941 AS A ADIUTANT TO GEN SIKORSKI DURING II WW THEY SAVED 4OOO THOUSANDS OF POLES SEEKING NEW HOME FOR THEM IN MEXICO !!!! SO WHEN YOU ARE WATCHING SCHINDLER LIST THINK OF SZERYNG TOO!!HE WAS SO OVERCOME BY MEXICAN RECEPTION (!!!!!) THAT HE BECOME MEXICAN CITIZEN !!!!After II WW AS A ARMIA KRAJOWA MEMBER AND SIKORSKI ASSISTENT HE HAD BY NKWD SENTENCE OF DEATH..SO FOR MANY YEARS HE COULD NOT COME BACK TO POLAND ...
Heifetz did play Paganini's 1st concerto in concert, but it was early in his career. I remember hearing Szeryng playing this concerto, I went with my Dad, it was in the early 1970s at the Festival Hall. It was advertised as the newly discovered concerto. What a magnificent player Szeryng was. Yet you'd never think as Szeryng as a Paginini player, yet he plays it as well as anyone. 😊.
Heifetz never played the Paganini concerti because he didn't want to trust his legacy to a live, recorded performance. He was always being scrutinized for his perfection.
It's almost as if he doesn't need to be smoothly perfect, because the " edge " or fruitiness to his tone gives a sort of fresh jucyiness that implies risk, pulling the listeners attention along but never fails.
Предпочтения есть у каждого музыканта...не помню записей, где Ойстрах сыграл бы хоть один концерт Паганини. Но громадность и лучезарность его дарования от этого не становятся тусклее... Хайфец или Хейфец был слишком самолюбив и ещё при жизни будто бы готовил себе трон "короля скрипок"...или к этому его подталкивало богатое окружение - у нас любят лепить кумиров... Шеринг в этой записи настолько ярче и убедительнее своих именитых и непотопляемых коллег - что об их присутствии даже не помнится...Шеринг был рабом Его величества Музыки, а не своего самолюбия - вот это главное. СПб, рабочий, 61 г.
I was about to ask the date - then the camera panned out... 1973. Orchestra? (Czech/Prague I'm guessing)? Great to hear him in his prime like this. I actually regret meeting him in person in the mid - 80's, Montreal. He played great, but clearly drank heavily for his nerves, and was intensely arrogant at that point. Not a 'nice' person to meet in person... took me 20 years to start listening to him again.
Вот так - мановением волшебной палочки обернуться бы сейчас в те времена...когда Шерингу было всего 55...кто ж помимо божьей воли мог так мудро раскидать по земле во весь XX век такие великие имена - Ойстраха, Когана, Третьякова в СССР и их не менее даровитых коллег - Крейслера, Энеску, Сигети и целый ряд американцев, сбежавших в юности из России. Место Генрика ШЕРИНГА в этом обрамлении самых разных музыкантов совершенно особое - разве в 1973 году я - 10-летним щеглом - мог предположить, что годы спустя буду слышать его скрипку и купаться в его волшебном воплощении !?! СПб, рабочий, 61 г.
@alegrepc These kind of comments and comparisons are just silly and ignorant, especially the suggestion that Szeryng was drunk at the time! This is certainly a fine performance, but there is no need to denigrate other equally fine violinists such as Stern and Perlman.
well, he was drunk very often in concerts. By the way, also the greater Oistrach. But if this is true, you have to admire him even more. But he was arrogant and proud of his 7 languages, which he spoke fluently. I played with him and can prove that.
I've wondered about this before. Why wouldn't he record it?? He did pretty much every major work in the violin repertoire, but no Paganini concerti that I'm aware of. And only I think 1 or 2 pieces by Vivaldi as well. Very disappointing in my opinion, I would LOVE to hear/see that.
don´t you consider that he had his reasons ? If you hear the 24 th caprice, you know that he would have easily been able to play all of the Paganini concertos, known by his time ( 1, 2, 4, 5 ) !
Szeryng is *the* best at Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, bar none, but Paganini is just not in his wheelhouse. kudos of course for being the one that revived this concerto, but i prefer Paganini with a bit over the top virtuosity and passion. he plays it more like it's Beethoven. and he obviously never spent much time practicing left hand pizzicato.
Creo que debe estar practicando su pizzicato, por eso no contesta. Jaja. Y lo dice alguien que ni sabe lo que significa pizzicato y que cayó aquí solo por curiosidad. Saludos!
@alegrepc Very clever and cowardly how you posted a silly rude comment on my channel and then blocked me from replying! Having played Bach Double with Schlomo at 16 (as a student?) doesn't justify or excuse your comments and your attempt to show off with the Tchaikovsky on your channel backfired because it is rough, out of tune and unmusical!
What'a greatman...This is MAGIC.
Paganini's melodies have a vivacity and charm woven into them that makes him unique on the compositional spectrum. Some people find his music mechanical and uninteresting, but after hearing this delightful third movement, I would hope that this changes their views (or should I say their ears!)
I would also add Fodor to that conversation, as would Szeryng.
My boyfriend is that way, in that I think he just finds the music to be about virtuosity without much beauty. But I agree with you. I always found Paganini to be as talented a composer as he was a violinist. His music fills me with immense joy!!!
what a sound, intonation and phrasing! And it is perfect in all difficult places- something exceptional!
only his left hand pizzikato is pretty weak !
Some marvellous viewing angles and dynamics contrasts by the conductor .
I love this video because he shows how he uses the bow
Love his sound
Szeryng was a fabulous with chamber music. Not all violinist share such a distinction. Eugene Fodor & Michael Rabin, for example, were basically known for Paganini & the like. Heifetz was a well-rounded violinist who was the best at everything he did, which is unique. Artur Rubinstein liked performing chamber music more with Szeryng than he did with Heifetz. Szeryng reminds me of good taste, sophistication, perfection & intellectual maturity. Few of today's violinists have that.
Уважаемый, готов вполне разделить Ваше мнение !!! - очень точные слова...
Мне по возрасту не привелось его ни видеть, ни слышать его живое исполнение - но то, что оставил этот величайший гигант заставляет преклонить перед ним колени и всячески благодарить, что миру на полсотни лет было дано такое удовольствие - слышать звуки его скрипки !!!
Wonderful! Thanks for posting!
Szeryng, oistrakh and heifetz!!!
but not in this sequence !
На вопрос - кто первый в мире скрипач Ойстрах отвечал: не знаю, кто первый - но следующий после него я !!!
Это была скорее шутка...
Thank you for posting all these amazing video recordings!!
Note the courage it takes to attempt this piece. All but forgotten, Szering was teaching history? in Mexico City. Later to emerge as an equal to all other soloists in his day. He still holds first place above all others in solo Bach. Listen to how his vibrato touches all the little notes.
OMG this is awesome
Szeryng, deberia estar alli arriba con las estrellas porque no hay otro que consiga los sentimientos con con un violin como el.
En mi apreciacion personal es el violinista mas completo del siglo xx
beautiful...and brilliant!
Sublime!!!!
Inimaginable
Such clear conducting.
bravooooo
Cuanta belleza solo Dios pudo inspirar a paganini..y henry monumental
fantastic
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR SHARING SZERYNG !!!! Szeryng born in Zelazowa Wola -Poland,(like Heifetz -born in Wilno Poland,Huberman born in Czestochowa ,Poland ) is one of those last true VIOLIN VIRTUOSOS and among those he is THE ONLY ONE !!! WHO DARED TO PLAY CONCERTS WITH PAGANINI!!! AND RECORDED IT !!! HEIFETZ NEVER DID !!! KREISLER CUT CAMPANELLA of MOST DIFFICULT PART WHILE PLAYING IT..SO ONLY HENRYK SZERYNG AMONG THOSE VIOLIN"S TYTANS DARED TO PLAY PAGANINI IN PUBLIC !!!AND HOW FANTASTIC HE IS !!!!! HE WAS ALSO A GREAT MAN!! IN 1941 AS A ADIUTANT TO GEN SIKORSKI DURING II WW THEY SAVED 4OOO THOUSANDS OF POLES SEEKING NEW HOME FOR THEM IN MEXICO !!!! SO WHEN YOU ARE WATCHING SCHINDLER LIST THINK OF SZERYNG TOO!!HE WAS SO OVERCOME BY MEXICAN RECEPTION (!!!!!) THAT HE BECOME MEXICAN CITIZEN !!!!After II WW AS A ARMIA KRAJOWA MEMBER AND SIKORSKI ASSISTENT HE HAD BY NKWD SENTENCE OF DEATH..SO FOR MANY YEARS HE COULD NOT COME BACK TO POLAND ...
Heifetz did play Paganini's 1st concerto in concert, but it was early in his career. I remember hearing Szeryng playing this concerto, I went with my Dad, it was in the early 1970s at the Festival Hall. It was advertised as the newly discovered concerto. What a magnificent player Szeryng was. Yet you'd never think as Szeryng as a Paginini player, yet he plays it as well as anyone. 😊.
@@frankie6954 Thank you for sharing those interesting informations about Heifetz. How early? Do you know by chance where and when?
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Heifetz never played the Paganini concerti because he didn't want to trust his legacy to a live, recorded performance. He was always being scrutinized for his perfection.
if you hear him play the 24 th caprice, you would hesitate to write this. But maybe he had other reasons not to play the Paganini violin concertos.
It's almost as if he doesn't need to be smoothly perfect, because the " edge " or fruitiness to his tone gives a sort of fresh jucyiness that implies risk, pulling
the listeners attention along but never fails.
Предпочтения есть у каждого музыканта...не помню записей, где Ойстрах сыграл бы хоть один концерт Паганини. Но громадность и лучезарность его дарования от этого не становятся тусклее...
Хайфец или Хейфец был слишком самолюбив и ещё при жизни будто бы готовил себе трон "короля скрипок"...или к этому его подталкивало богатое окружение - у нас любят лепить кумиров...
Шеринг в этой записи настолько ярче и убедительнее своих именитых и непотопляемых коллег - что об их присутствии даже не помнится...Шеринг был рабом Его величества Музыки, а не своего самолюбия - вот это главное.
СПб, рабочий, 61 г.
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Prague Spring 1973.
to me it looks like the conductor is Pole Witold Rowicki;it may be guest performance of Polish musicians in Prague festival.
You are quite right, as always!
I was about to ask the date - then the camera panned out... 1973. Orchestra? (Czech/Prague I'm guessing)? Great to hear him in his prime like this. I actually regret meeting him in person in the mid - 80's, Montreal. He played great, but clearly drank heavily for his nerves, and was intensely arrogant at that point. Not a 'nice' person to meet in person... took me 20 years to start listening to him again.
Вот так - мановением волшебной палочки обернуться бы сейчас в те времена...когда Шерингу было всего 55...кто ж помимо божьей воли мог так мудро раскидать по земле во весь XX век такие великие имена - Ойстраха, Когана, Третьякова в СССР и их не менее даровитых коллег - Крейслера, Энеску, Сигети и целый ряд американцев, сбежавших в юности из России.
Место Генрика ШЕРИНГА в этом обрамлении самых разных музыкантов совершенно особое - разве в 1973 году я - 10-летним щеглом - мог предположить, что годы спустя буду слышать его скрипку и купаться в его волшебном воплощении !?!
СПб, рабочий, 61 г.
Salvatore accardo, Arthur grumiaux y Henry Szhering, grandiosos después todos.
Biggest violinist of XX cent. with Rabin and Heifetz
But he had alot of jealous observers amongst younger contemporary fiddlers.....whoes only ability was to play faster and faster.
Can anyone tell me where and how to buy this video?
@alegrepc These kind of comments and comparisons are just silly and ignorant, especially the suggestion that Szeryng was drunk at the time! This is certainly a fine performance, but there is no need to denigrate other equally fine violinists such as Stern and Perlman.
well, he was drunk very often in concerts. By the way, also the greater Oistrach. But if this is true, you have to admire him even more. But he was arrogant and proud of his 7 languages, which he spoke fluently. I played with him and can prove that.
I've wondered about this before. Why wouldn't he record it?? He did pretty much every major work in the violin repertoire, but no Paganini concerti that I'm aware of. And only I think 1 or 2 pieces by Vivaldi as well. Very disappointing in my opinion, I would LOVE to hear/see that.
don´t you consider that he had his reasons ? If you hear the 24 th caprice, you know that he would have easily been able to play all of the Paganini concertos, known by his time ( 1, 2, 4, 5 ) !
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Music in italian advertisement by "Rosati - il fiore Lancia" (1988-1993): th-cam.com/video/z8a397XD6gE/w-d-xo.html
It sounds like bird singing.
Szeryng is *the* best at Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, bar none, but Paganini is just not in his wheelhouse. kudos of course for being the one that revived this concerto, but i prefer Paganini with a bit over the top virtuosity and passion. he plays it more like it's Beethoven. and he obviously never spent much time practicing left hand pizzicato.
I think you are too picky...
So tell us about your left hand pizzicato.
@@yvonne2546 i am still waiting for his answer.. Eating pop corn....
Creo que debe estar practicando su pizzicato, por eso no contesta. Jaja. Y lo dice alguien que ni sabe lo que significa pizzicato y que cayó aquí solo por curiosidad. Saludos!
@@francescoficarella1474 so no one is allowed to offer an opinion on anything unless they do it better themselves? hmm.
stern siempre dijo que era el mejor violinista y eso no es asi!!!este es el mejor violnista del mundo con hilary hahn!!!!
@alegrepc Very clever and cowardly how you posted a silly rude comment on my channel and then blocked me from replying! Having played Bach Double with Schlomo at 16 (as a student?) doesn't justify or excuse your comments and your attempt to show off with the Tchaikovsky on your channel backfired because it is rough, out of tune and unmusical!
упс.....лажовенько
Suono pesantissimo! Nooo!