My father played in one the great symphony orchestras during the Heifetz era. He heard most of the great soloists of that time period. . To him, there was no one like Heifetz. He was in a class by himself.
When someone like Perlman sees himself as a "mortal" in comparison to Heifetz and I, a grade 4 noob, am watching this interview and realizing I'm not even at mortal level.
At least you're watching the video. I've had a violin for 30 years and only now understanding the greats and moderns. You're ahead of the game at grade 4 😊
Itzhak Perlman always regarded Heifetz the way Pavarotti thought of Caruso. I wouldn't say that Pavarotti was 2nd to any other Italian tenor, even Caruso, but there is not doubt in my mind that Heifetz was the greatest violinist of all time. You may like the style of another violinist more, but when it comes to intonation, tempo, technical brilliance & nuances that come with portameno, vibrato, & phrasing he was truly unique. Perlman indeed knows what he's talking about.
Andrew Wang ....we all agree by now, Mr. IP is able to play any piece of the repertoire..... His bow control (which is the key to the ultimate treasures of any string instrument....) soars in the exosphere, metaphorically spoken.... However, one question, in my perception, remains unanswered: Why, in specific moments (eg Beeth. conc., cadenza etc.) is his INTONATION so "non-chalant" or "approximatif" at the peak of high-speed passages? Mr IP knows the abswer........
It is very important what Perlman talks about in this video. He tell us more about Heifetz,this is great from a man of his high standard. No other violinist can or have done this…
Fritz Kreisler, another violin virtuoso of the twentieth century, said after hearing Heifetz's debut at Carnegie Hall, "We might as well take our fiddles and break them across our knees."
Heifetz is one of the best violinists, and Perlman too, each one in their own way and style and time. I do admire both, the violin does have that mysticism that moves people spirit.
A 78 recording of I Dream Of Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair was the first time I ever heard Heifetz. I could not believe how he sounded exactly like a fine light tenor, just without the lyrics. Thank you for this interview.
I keep finding more and more verifications for why I fell in love with Heifetz the first time I heard him in1953. For my birthday I received a copy of Sarasate's Zapateado. I still have that 45, tho it no longer sounds very dood. I began adding his LP vinyls in 54 when I got my first HiFi. Itzhak Perlman has replaced him. God's Violinist was my favorite. Miss his touch as much as I miss being able to hear the last octave and a half of the 88 keys. RIP Jascha
Years ago, I was playing a show with the great drummer, Louie Bellson. He told the band with great pride that he had an X-ray of his arm taken by an orthopedic surgeon and the surgeon told him that the X-ray looked exactly like the one that was taken of Jascha Heifetz's arm.
To be honest heifetz was for some reason playing pieces faster than the written Tempo He is very technically advanced and very musical Itzhak is very close in technicality and he is very very very musical Both are legendary
@absloko there are two Heifetz arrangements of songs, the first "It Ain't Necessarily So" composed by George Gershwin and after about one minute in as Mr. Perlman says "I Dream of Jeannie" which was written by Stephen Foster.
i have watched this video a few times but till now i still have not caught much of what was being said...just can't help but listen to the glorious music played in the background.
I didn`t watch the program from the beginning, and unfortunately couldn`t record it. Over the years I had hoped to see it again,or maybe purchase a tape or DVD.
I know how you feel-there was a performance by Perlman at the Hollywood Bowl with Zubin Mehta conducting that was broadcast in the late 70's that I would love to have a chance to see again. Included were the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy.
It lasted about 30 min,about 15 years ago. Perlman talked about Violinists who composed for the violin, Sarasate, Wieniawski, Kreisler etc. He demonstrated how they wrote in ways that played to their strengths on the violin. Because of his large hands,he showed how he had difficulty with some movements of the left hand. My VCR wasn`t working at the time,and I couldn`t record it.
same thing happened to me at a heifetz concert 25 years ago, except heifetz was gracious enough to let me play for him. after hearing me, he smashed his violin in little pieces and vowed never to play again for in my sound he had "heard the true voice of god". i was like, "aww, shucks, heifie", all embarrassed.
Do you have the complete PBS program,of which this is a part? I remember seeing it many years ago. Yes, it`s amazing that when you listen to the Heifetz arrangements of Foster or Gershwin,you can hear all the lyrics.
Hi folks, does anyone know what is the music which sounds in background, specially the part begining at 1:01 - it looks like a piece for violin and piano? Who's the composer? Very beautiful piece. Thanks in advance!
@sharlesin Thanks for telling me about that. This video is taken from "Behind the Music, A Video companion to Itzhak Perlman's Personal Picks". It also came with a cd of the pieces he talks about (and as described, personally selected). The Mendelssohn last movement from the Ed Sullivan Show is included on this video. Was that also on the PBS program? I'll have to do a bit more research...
well....i might say heifetz produced notes most of the time....amazing technall abilities, but one was fascinated of this "technicall brilliance"... there are many pieces a "mortal" perlman, a francescatti, a kogan plays nicer, and yet not technically worser.... ..and hence i might say, some there and there, kogan and francescatti, were technically even better than heifetz.
Heifetz played like a machine, his violin playing has never appealed to me. I find much more feelings in Itzhak Perlman's interpretations and I really like his phrasing and timbre.
@TheSwean why does itzhak perlman have to endure listening to another person playing the piece, and he was probably sick of listening to it, i mean he has already played a million times (i stopped playing violin myself because i was sick of playing the same piece over and over). so give itzhak a break,
dan peter I'm sorry that you quit over something that can be so easily mended. Try rephrasing every section of the piece and trying different techniques on all the passages. I know practicing can really feel like a drag many times but breathing new life into a piece is one of the most fun things to do! The reason he listens to others playing the same pieces is, well, to see their interpretations, to pick and choose what he likes and might implement for himself, or simply be a spectator to what the player chooses to do with the concert.
Heifitz was a gentleman? In those now famous masterclass videos he is so discourteous to a prospective student who auditions for him and parodies his playing. Somewhere in the world was a person who was ready to jump off a bridge the way Heifitz made fun of him. This was totally unnecessary, especially for such a great player as he was. Give me Milstein or Kayler or Szeryng as great players who knew how to be gentlemen and still perform at the highest levels ever heard.
Rich Smit I'm sorry, but when I was growing up being a gentleman outside of someone of noble birth, the meaning also had a much accepted standard definition - "a man who treats other people in a proper and polite way". He wasn't being direct, he was just unkind. I don't know where you get the idea of ' he speaks with are in control of their emotions' is somehow an attribute of a gentleman. You have your idea and I have mine; so be it.
My father played in one the great symphony orchestras during the Heifetz era. He heard most of the great soloists of that time period. . To him, there was no one like Heifetz. He was in a class by himself.
Thank God he lived in an age of recorded music. His music should give us hope in mankind. We sure need it now.
When someone like Perlman sees himself as a "mortal" in comparison to Heifetz and I, a grade 4 noob, am watching this interview and realizing I'm not even at mortal level.
Danielle Khairallah lol me too but I’m level 3
At least you're watching the video. I've had a violin for 30 years and only now understanding the greats and moderns. You're ahead of the game at grade 4 😊
@@nicholashill9302 Haha I'nm slightly obsessed with the violin :P
xD not even mortal
@@nicholashill9302 I'm grade 5 now XD
Itzhak Perlman always regarded Heifetz the way Pavarotti thought of Caruso. I wouldn't say that Pavarotti was 2nd to any other Italian tenor, even Caruso, but there is not doubt in my mind that Heifetz was the greatest violinist of all time. You may like the style of another violinist more, but when it comes to intonation, tempo, technical brilliance & nuances that come with portameno, vibrato, & phrasing he was truly unique. Perlman indeed knows what he's talking about.
I like how he's having this interview and just randomly whips out his violin and owns it.
Andrew Wang
....we all agree by now, Mr. IP is able to play any piece of the repertoire.....
His bow control (which is the key to the ultimate treasures of any string instrument....) soars in the exosphere, metaphorically spoken....
However, one question, in my perception, remains unanswered:
Why, in specific moments (eg Beeth. conc., cadenza etc.) is his INTONATION so "non-chalant" or "approximatif" at the peak of high-speed passages?
Mr IP knows the abswer........
He doesn't randomly whip out his violin - there's a wipe!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_(transition)
It is very important what Perlman talks about in this video. He tell us more about Heifetz,this is great from a man of his high standard. No other violinist can or have done this…
I like Ithzak Perlman so much!
Thank You.... thys Is True...i like very much ITZHAK PERLMAN 🎻❤️
100% correct about Heifetz.
Fritz Kreisler, another violin virtuoso of the twentieth century, said after hearing Heifetz's debut at Carnegie Hall, "We might as well take our fiddles and break them across our knees."
My English is not good, but your voice is very beautiful. Thank you for Your talent and Your video. THANK YOU Maestro Ithzak Perlman ♥️
Aside from being the all time greatest violinist, Jascha Heifetz was one of the very few (maybe two) with true class.
Ferras, Kogan, Kriesler, Bezrodny, Legocky, Vengerov, Repin, Milstein, Oistrakh, Friedman... ?
A gracious tribute from a great artist.
Heifetz is one of the best violinists, and Perlman too, each one in their own way and style and time. I do admire both, the violin does have that mysticism that moves people spirit.
I find it difficult to choose between Heifetz and Perlman. They both succeed in wafting me to a higher plane of ecstasy.
Two GREAT SHREDDERS!
@@u.v.s.5583 I prefer Lindsey Stirling. She composes and dances too.
Heifetz was a cocky, self absorbed person so definitely Perlman for me.
heiftz, oistrakh and perlman was the best
@SavageArfad Oh jesus christ. Another one.
Even today most elites violonist will slow down some passages. Heifezt was a metronome and played everything full speed
Stunning discussion about Heifetz.
A 78 recording of I Dream Of Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair was the first time I ever heard Heifetz. I could not believe how he sounded exactly like a fine light tenor, just without the lyrics. Thank you for this interview.
I keep finding more and more verifications for why I fell in love with Heifetz the first time I heard him in1953. For my birthday I received a copy of Sarasate's Zapateado. I still have that 45, tho it no longer sounds very dood. I began adding his LP vinyls in 54 when I got my first HiFi. Itzhak Perlman has replaced him.
God's Violinist was my favorite. Miss his touch as much as I miss being able to hear the last octave and a half of the 88 keys.
RIP Jascha
Years ago, I was playing a show with the great drummer, Louie Bellson.
He told the band with great pride that he had an X-ray of his arm taken by an orthopedic surgeon and the surgeon told him that the X-ray looked exactly like the one that was taken of Jascha Heifetz's arm.
"I practiced like a Devil " ㅡJ. Heifetz
Este homem é simplismente fantástico, mágico.
When I think of Heifetz and Perlman, I think of Pavarotti and Domingo. Pavarotti had the most amazing instrument, but Domingo made the roles live.
My neighbor from Hakalir Street. My mom picked him up when he fell on the stairs of Hakalir School.
I love pearlman...dam great player...but with hiefetz i love how he bought the beuty out of structure on such a fine level.
Heifetz played like a machine? Use your ears and open your soul...he will never be surpassed on a musical level.
@Cold German Beer Why, if I may ask? Personally, I really admire his musicality...
@SavageArfad what rubbish claim. You and all the other critics seem to forget, it takes great sensitivity to play like Heifetz.
Thx Itzhak for posting Vids like that. Gives us motivation to practice and play! Keep goin! Fred
Just perfect :)
in whole his life, Perlman had 5 minutes meeting with Heifetz.
Wrong. He took at least one master class from him.
Perlman did visit Heifetz many times in his home in Los Angeles. They were friends.
Dear Mr. Perlman, technically he may have been so good, but you are just as good with more musical value (for me).
To be honest heifetz was for some reason playing pieces faster than the written Tempo
He is very technically advanced and very musical
Itzhak is very close in technicality and he is very very very musical
Both are legendary
@absloko there are two Heifetz arrangements of songs, the first "It Ain't Necessarily So" composed by George Gershwin and after about one minute in as Mr. Perlman says "I Dream of Jeannie" which was written by Stephen Foster.
Jep...just perfect...
i have watched this video a few times but till now i still have not caught much of what was being said...just can't help but listen to the glorious music played in the background.
I didn`t watch the program from the beginning, and unfortunately couldn`t record it. Over the years I had hoped to see it again,or maybe purchase a tape or DVD.
I know how you feel-there was a performance by Perlman at the Hollywood Bowl with Zubin Mehta conducting that was broadcast in the late 70's that I would love to have a chance to see again. Included were the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy.
It lasted about 30 min,about 15 years ago. Perlman talked about Violinists who composed for the violin, Sarasate, Wieniawski, Kreisler etc. He demonstrated how they wrote in ways that played to their strengths on the violin. Because of his large hands,he showed how he had difficulty with some movements of the left hand. My VCR wasn`t working at the time,and I couldn`t record it.
same thing happened to me at a heifetz concert 25 years ago, except heifetz was gracious enough to let me play for him. after hearing me, he smashed his violin in little pieces and vowed never to play again for in my sound he had "heard the true voice of god". i was like, "aww, shucks, heifie", all embarrassed.
Yeah. You are. Lying. ! Don't believe. It. !
I think…that story was exaggerated.
Oh, Mr Perlman, don't be a fool, you're not a mortal.
Do you have the complete PBS program,of which this is a part? I remember seeing it many years ago. Yes, it`s amazing that when you listen to the Heifetz arrangements of Foster or Gershwin,you can hear all the lyrics.
Hi folks, does anyone know what is the music which sounds in background, specially the part begining at 1:01 - it looks like a piece for violin and piano? Who's the composer? Very beautiful piece. Thanks in advance!
Luis Araujo it ain't necessarily so - George Gershwin
It's "Jeannie with the light brown hair", by Foster. You can find Heifetz playing the full piece on youtube. It's the BEST!!!
@sharlesin Thanks for telling me about that. This video is taken from "Behind the Music, A Video companion to Itzhak Perlman's Personal Picks". It also came with a cd of the pieces he talks about (and as described, personally selected). The Mendelssohn last movement from the Ed Sullivan Show is included on this video. Was that also on the PBS program? I'll have to do a bit more research...
For me, the best was Szerying, but I do love heifetz's playing!
@MrLandale
I'm not the only one? YES!
What does he mean at 0:25 "Heifitz is the father of modern violin playing." ?
*Heifetz.
Before Heifetz, it wasn't expected to play a piece fully in tune, for example. Heifetz single-handedly raised the bar for everybody else.
SavageArfad I’m not saying there weren’t.
Funny that he says.... mortals 😂.... OMG...
@kcherrytree1 You are welcome! My first impressions of certain recordings have stayed with me also.
@sharlesin Must admit, I am not familiar with the PBS program you mentioned. Please tell me a little more about it if you can.
well....i might say heifetz produced notes most of the time....amazing technall abilities, but one was fascinated of this "technicall brilliance"... there are many pieces a "mortal" perlman, a francescatti, a kogan plays nicer, and yet not technically worser....
..and hence i might say, some there and there, kogan and francescatti, were technically even better than heifetz.
i don't know ,for me milstein was the man!!!He played like a mother into his 80's.
I agree! Milstein all the way!
I can understand Dominant A, D, G, but Dominant E?!!
Were you possibly responding to someone?
Can't hear him talk, & no CC's. Too bad.
I’m sorry about that. The original video tape didn’t have cc as far as I can recall and I didn’t think about that.
He was sitting.
After hearing Heifetz others sounds boring and dull.
"In every violinists ear there is Heifetz" - Issac Stern
@Violin Accordion I listened some of his playing and it's incredible. Thank you.
@Violin Accordion Thank you for introducing him. Such a talent and integrity and musicianship.
'Us mortals'
You're not mortal, though.
Did . . . did he just say Heifetz played "I Dream of Genie"?
Jeannie Not Genie!
Très belle voix de basse assez peu en accord avec l'instrument ... paradoxe
Mr. Perlman doesn't realize that he has better taste and musicality than Heifetz himself.
Yes , he and Issac Stern really impress me on how to play the violin musically.
Perlman is not like this. He either has a reason, or you are not telling the truth.
maybe that's cause he is holding his crutches
Heifetz played like a machine, his violin playing has never appealed to me. I find much more feelings in Itzhak Perlman's interpretations and I really like his phrasing and timbre.
The Rheumatic Musician If you can't find the amazing phrasing in Heifetz's interpretations, perhaps you should look harder.
open your ears
I sense a bias against violinists not from Europe?
heifetz was from Lithuania
which is in Europe
@@SpaghettiToaster I prefer Lindsey Stirling from the US. She composes and dances too.
maybe, maybe not.
fucking hack, just kidding, saw him in Kalamazoo mi, 1996, quite amazing.
Heifetz was phenomenal. But Perlman is the better player.
violatione nuh uh
No
Why do you state that Perlman is the better player?
@TheSwean
why does itzhak perlman have to endure listening to another person playing the piece, and he was probably sick of listening to it, i mean he has already played a million times (i stopped playing violin myself because i was sick of playing the same piece over and over). so give itzhak a break,
dan peter I'm sorry that you quit over something that can be so easily mended. Try rephrasing every section of the piece and trying different techniques on all the passages. I know practicing can really feel like a drag many times but breathing new life into a piece is one of the most fun things to do! The reason he listens to others playing the same pieces is, well, to see their interpretations, to pick and choose what he likes and might implement for himself, or simply be a spectator to what the player chooses to do with the concert.
you clearly know nothing about it.
Heifitz was a gentleman? In those now famous masterclass videos he is so discourteous to a prospective student who auditions for him and parodies his playing. Somewhere in the world was a person who was ready to jump off a bridge the way Heifitz made fun of him. This was totally unnecessary, especially for such a great player as he was. Give me Milstein or Kayler or Szeryng as great players who knew how to be gentlemen and still perform at the highest levels ever heard.
Rich Smit I'm sorry, but when I was growing up being a gentleman outside of someone of noble birth, the meaning also had a much accepted standard definition - "a man who treats other people in a proper and polite way". He wasn't being direct, he was just unkind. I don't know where you get the idea of ' he speaks with are in control of their emotions' is somehow an attribute of a gentleman. You have your idea and I have mine; so be it.
Actually, that famous video in which he claims to parody an audition was just a joke by him, he admitted that to one of his students later.