I played this Gluck's melody in front of Heifetz. At his home studio top of Beverly Hills. No other student but me that day. Heifetz listened sitting on chair in front of me. After I finished he just sat there quietly as if thinking something. I felt his approval of my playing. At the end of my 4th year studying with him Heifetz invited me alone to his dinner at his house. There were him and Claire Hodgkins assistant teacher at the table. After dinner he showed 2 violins on the grand piano and told me to pick one violin as a gift for me. I was astonished and happy. He did what he could help me a korean student . I didn't have a decent violin.
@@wombat5628 I started with Heifetz from 1973 spring and for 4 years. There was a Japanese student Takashi Shimiju briefly. Total 7 students from other countries and U.S. And couple auditors. After me there were 2 others koreans and one Chinese girl.Xando Xia. Xando later became a member of Chicago Symphony.
@@망히-z9z Thank you so much! I would be interested to hear anything you could share about JH, anecdotes, the teacher, violinist, the man, even just the dinner you had with him 😊... I am a huge fan. I wish you the very best! 🌺 🎻
@@wombat5628 If you haven't seen yet, there is a book published by Amadeus Press. Name of the book is Heifetz - As I knew him. Written by Ayke Agus, the Heifetz class pianist. You can read many interesting things about him.
@@망히-z9z Thank you. I have that book, as well as the other books about JH. I also wonder what have become many of his lesser known students. Have most of them gone on to play in an orchestra, teach? did any leave the profession for a complete career? They must all have been exceedingly talented to have been his students.
When I was eleven or twelve and we were living in Los Angeles, I refused to go (as my parents wanted) to a summer camp, just so that I could be in L.A. to see and hear Heifetz live. They were annoyed. But it was worth it!
I used to watch this video with the teacher who taught me everything I know. I was his student for 8 years and formed a really close teacher-student connection. He used to tell me where to look at Heifetz's arms and especially which effects used with different contact points of the bow on the string. He died in march.. and this video will always make me remember those beautiful days that are just so important to me.
This is Heifetz at his absolute best. All the stunning beauty and perfection and none of the eccentricity that he sometimes showed in classical (as opposed to late Romantic) music. One of the most perfect performances i have ever heard (and seen! look at that ;perfect bow arm and very intense but perfectly calibrated vibrato. His Beethoven Concerto with Munch would be another.
Heifetz plays with such feeling in almost all of his recordings but sometimes people think that's not true just because it's fast. Heifetz plays fast and with great feeling at the same time.
Jascha Heifetz has always been and likely always will be my favorite violinist of all time. Other violinists may be faster, even more accurate, more dramatic... but his playing is just so heavenly! His notes are hauntingly alive. And this composition by Gluck is like a perfect prayer. It's just a wonderful video all around. Thank you for uploading it, Sam Lee!
It's always impressive to watch him reach the tip, make a bowing adjustment, then produce a sound as clear as the rest of the notes on the fuller bowstroke with less then 2 inches of bow. I wish I could do that..
He included this at times in rare recitals during the 60's before ending public performances. Heifetz understood the importance of what happens between the notes and phrases this in a way no one can quite match. He captivated live audiences this way. Heard this live when I was a yound man 40 years ago and it still has an incredible appeal hearing it in this recording
So hauntingly sad -- After hearing this, I went my whole day in a state somewhere beyond everything that happens on the outside. The world needs more of this to heal from all its pains and sorrows
Old fashion and sound just bring me emotional. I got goose bumps when i listen heifetz play , and he js the only one i can listen from the begin until the last second without losing concentration. Nowdays the great violinist competitors they play perfectly , but it miss the true feeling and inspiration of music .
Счастливые те, кто слушал Хейфица (в знак высокого почитания ГЕНИЯ по-русски с именем отчество, а не по-американски по-свойски) вживую. Такое впечатление останется, как благодать, на всю жизнь!!! Спасибо каналу и автору что мы, через полвека со дня его смерти, можем слушать его БОЖЕСТВЕННУЮ ИГРУ! У нас сохранились почти 70 летней давности, ещё не долгоиграющие пластинки. Студентами собирали их, не будучи музыкантами. На всю жизнь запомнила 1йКонцерт Чайковского в исполнении Э. ГИЛЕЛЬСА вживую в Харькове в 1963г в ДК ХЭМЗ и Когана старшего в Ташкенте. И др гениев! И это было доступно, буквально за 3, 5, 6 н можно было слушать музыкантов мирового уровня!!
Звук необыкновенной красоты.Если бы его можно было сравнить, то это жемчужная раковина в ней непревзойденной красоты жемчужина .Она сияет матовым лучезарным светом, играет мягкими оттенками золотисто- розового цвета.Гениально! Браво! 👋👋👋👋👋🌿✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌿✨🌍🕊️🌍🕊️🌍🕊️✨🌟
Absolutely amazing. Happy Birthday Mr Heifetz today on the 2nd February 🎈. Thank goodness the sound of Mr Heifetz lives on in Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker. If only the great one was alive now, he would truly be astounded at the uncanny resemblance and likeness.of his brilliance.
Heifetz is wonderful here. Notice that he did not learn "reeling & writhing" in music classes the way many violinists have done. Gluck was an innovative genius! This is just one of his many awesomely great melodies.
Everything about this bestows immortality to the beholder. (Immersion in these rare classic performances is the only way I can kill the pain of the gruesome news: Should never have waited on abject horror to begin.) Thank you for this channel.
Yes, I completely agree! it was one of those "oh, thats how its supposed to be done!" moments. I think it's partly inspired by Auer's teachings as well, now that I skimmed through some parts of his book on violin playing. JH's bow hold is probably more suitable for that particular effect...fascinating!
That bow hold is natural for his hand formation. Auer didn't teach him that -- it was a natural gift. Even as a child he only ever held it that way - it gives superb power. But in later years of playing high on the lower strings led to shoulder impingement issues and ultimately tore the rotator cuff.
-- C'est un air qui sonne comme une longue plainte, une douleur, une mélodie qui sonnerait, peut-être mais déjà, l'hallali. Heifetz jouait avec son cœur, et son violon était son âme. Un enregistrement précieux, une interprétation qui me touche. --
This is increadibel phantastic! Thank you Jascha Heifetz for this gift to the mankind. I answer you skimask777, no theire are no words to explain something so beautiful!
Sheer bliss to listen to both Rachmaninov and Heifetz playing this piece in turn on their respective instruments. Many thanks for posting. Best wishes.
SO BEAUTIFUL! If you also practiced and performed for 66,000 QUALITY hours by the age of 37 (when this video was taken), and also emphasizing the growth of your musicality and the subtler things in art, not just technique, maybe.... The sheer number of tones and colors, and above all the searing emotion! @ 2:35, SEAMLESS! Did that bow actually change direction ?? William Primrose said, "He has a panache, an elan, that makes the simplest sonata tremendously exciting. He can break your heart."
@nice guy, Dear Simon Young Kim, It's beyond me how you could sell the violin that Heifetz gave you as a gift. I would have treasured that violin for ever. It was a wonderful gesture by Heifetz.
I take the view that Heifetz was a strict tutor. That, however, is the greatest thing that his students could ever wish for. Once judged by Heifetz,,surely the most exacting critic of all,,they would never need to fear future audiences or critics? In viewing his master classes one sees a totally "no nonsense" coach who gets through a large amount of work in the time available. He misses nothing and his demonstrations are stunning. He does have a great underlying sense of humour. I like him
Amusing how many people here missed it. First, see the score to the Kreisler arrangement here: tinyurl.com/y93zhv2r In measure 12 (3rd staff down, on the right), where the score indicates, "p - tranquillo", and the notes alternate back and forth, Heifetz plays the two final "C's" of the measure as a dotted 16th and 32nd note, despite the fact that it's written simply as two 16th notes. He does that throughout the composition. I haven't heard any other violinist make that change. For me, it entirely works, adding a subtle adamant or insistent propulsive force to the musical statement - which is, after all, a kind of plea or prayer. Heifetz's musical instincts here were completely on point.
@dkurgano It probably has to do with his bow hold, which is the Russian grip. Believe it or not, the Russian bow hold is designed to allow you to get MORE power at the tip than the frog, meaning that in the same way that we have to release some of the pressure when we play at the frog in order to get a sweet sound he has to do the same thing at the tip.
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...
After the death of Eurydice her husband Orfeo, who loved her very much, went to the hell to see Hades in order to get her back. He played such wonderful and sad music that Hades was very moved and allowed him to take his wife back to the human world, but under one condition that he shouldn't turn back until they left the death world. But Orfeo was worried about Eurydice who followed him and didn't say a word, so he turned back and lost her forever
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 just wanna know how he does the vibrato. So many variations and yet none of them sound like what "modern" violinists do today. We've really lost the way, haven't we?
I played this Gluck's melody in front of Heifetz. At his home studio top of Beverly Hills. No other student but me that day. Heifetz listened sitting on chair in front of me. After I finished he just sat there quietly as if thinking something. I felt his approval of my playing. At the end of my 4th year studying with him Heifetz invited me alone to his dinner at his house. There were him and Claire Hodgkins assistant teacher at the table. After dinner he showed 2 violins on the grand piano and told me to pick one violin as a gift for me. I was astonished and happy. He did what he could help me a korean student . I didn't have a decent violin.
Thank you for sharing! You were so lucky! What year was it? How many Korean or Asian students did he have?
@@wombat5628 I started with Heifetz from 1973 spring and for 4 years. There was a Japanese student Takashi Shimiju briefly.
Total 7 students from other countries and U.S. And couple auditors. After me there were 2 others koreans and one Chinese girl.Xando Xia. Xando later became a member of Chicago Symphony.
@@망히-z9z Thank you so much! I would be interested to hear anything you could share about JH, anecdotes, the teacher, violinist, the man, even just the dinner you had with him 😊... I am a huge fan. I wish you the very best! 🌺 🎻
@@wombat5628 If you haven't seen yet, there is a book published by Amadeus Press.
Name of the book is Heifetz - As I knew him.
Written by Ayke Agus, the Heifetz class pianist. You can read many interesting things about him.
@@망히-z9z Thank you. I have that book, as well as the other books about JH. I also wonder what have become many of his lesser known students. Have most of them gone on to play in an orchestra, teach? did any leave the profession for a complete career? They must all have been exceedingly talented to have been his students.
When I was eleven or twelve and we were living in Los Angeles, I refused to go (as my parents wanted) to a summer camp, just so that I could be in L.A. to see and hear Heifetz live. They were annoyed. But it was worth it!
I used to watch this video with the teacher who taught me everything I know. I was his student for 8 years and formed a really close teacher-student connection. He used to tell me where to look at Heifetz's arms and especially which effects used with different contact points of the bow on the string. He died in march.. and this video will always make me remember those beautiful days that are just so important to me.
Mihai, Touching comment. Thank you for sharing this story with a Heifetz' connection. .
this is one of the most beautiful pieces in the world, played by one of the greatest violinists in the history
This is Heifetz at his absolute best. All the stunning beauty and perfection and none of the eccentricity that he sometimes showed in classical (as opposed to late Romantic) music. One of the most perfect performances i have ever heard (and seen! look at that ;perfect bow arm and very intense but perfectly calibrated vibrato. His Beethoven Concerto with Munch would be another.
Heifetz plays with such feeling in almost all of his recordings but sometimes people think that's not true just because it's fast. Heifetz plays fast and with great feeling at the same time.
Jascha Heifetz has always been and likely always will be my favorite violinist of all time. Other violinists may be faster, even more accurate, more dramatic... but his playing is just so heavenly! His notes are hauntingly alive. And this composition by Gluck is like a perfect prayer. It's just a wonderful video all around. Thank you for uploading it, Sam Lee!
I agree.
Hello. In that case Christina you should to listen Ginette Neveu"s rendition of "Melodie". Apparently I don't want to compare them. Just listen.
ChristinaUnplugged
Listen to Kogan and you will change your mind, more powerful.
ChristinaUnplugged nobody is more accurate
Well I just listened to the Kogan. Fantastic, yes, but still no Heifetz
Every time I hear Heifetz playing this piece, my heart begins to cry. I don't know why, but it's fantastic.
No matter how often I listen to it, I keep getting overwhelmed by the emotion
Beautiful....A technical observation: he spends so much bow...and yet, he always has plenty left, even at the tip.
+David Steven Tabbat Well, given the fact that he's practically a God, he has an endless bow.
Papa mia beautiful answer
Partially I have to admit that the video slight out of sync strenghten the impression
It's always impressive to watch him reach the tip, make a bowing adjustment, then produce a sound as clear as the rest of the notes on the fuller bowstroke with less then 2 inches of bow. I wish I could do that..
A\a
He included this at times in rare recitals during the 60's before ending public performances. Heifetz understood the importance of what happens between the notes and phrases this in a way no one can quite match. He captivated live audiences this way. Heard this live when I was a yound man 40 years ago and it still has an incredible appeal hearing it in this recording
So hauntingly sad -- After hearing this, I went my whole day in a state somewhere beyond everything that happens on the outside. The world needs more of this to heal from all its pains and sorrows
I agree with your well chosen words...
Old fashion and sound just bring me emotional. I got goose bumps when i listen heifetz play , and he js the only one i can listen from the begin until the last second without losing concentration. Nowdays the great violinist competitors they play perfectly , but it miss the true feeling and inspiration of music .
Счастливые те, кто слушал Хейфица (в знак высокого почитания ГЕНИЯ по-русски с именем отчество, а не по-американски по-свойски) вживую. Такое впечатление останется, как благодать, на всю жизнь!!! Спасибо каналу и автору что мы, через полвека со дня его смерти, можем слушать его БОЖЕСТВЕННУЮ ИГРУ! У нас сохранились почти 70 летней давности, ещё не долгоиграющие пластинки. Студентами собирали их, не будучи музыкантами. На всю жизнь запомнила 1йКонцерт Чайковского в исполнении Э. ГИЛЕЛЬСА вживую в Харькове в 1963г в ДК ХЭМЗ и Когана старшего в Ташкенте. И др гениев! И это было доступно, буквально за 3, 5, 6 н можно было слушать музыкантов мирового уровня!!
This gives me chills. He plays with so much passion, it's truly a beautiful thing
His bow moves so quickly at 0:47 and the sound quality still doesn't change
Absolute perfection on many levels. Something divine in this performance.. no words..
Звук необыкновенной красоты.Если бы его можно было сравнить, то это жемчужная раковина в ней непревзойденной красоты жемчужина .Она сияет матовым лучезарным светом, играет мягкими оттенками золотисто- розового цвета.Гениально! Браво! 👋👋👋👋👋🌿✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌿✨🌍🕊️🌍🕊️🌍🕊️✨🌟
I love it The one and only JASCHA HEIFETZ ,To be ENJOYED
Прекрасно! ШЕДЕВР!!! Огромное спасибо всем! БРАВО!
For me, this is the greatest violonist of all time.... just beceause you can sense the emotions in all his songs he played,
Ahhhhh, that tone, that vibrato . . . . Thank you Heifetz for your gift of music and unrivaled violin playing
Absolutely amazing. Happy Birthday Mr Heifetz today on the 2nd February 🎈. Thank goodness the sound of Mr Heifetz lives on in Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker. If only the great one was alive now, he would truly be astounded at the uncanny resemblance and likeness.of his brilliance.
My birthday
he never fails to amaze me!
I have no musical talent at all. I can't imagine what it would like to pick up and play a violin so beautifully !
Heifetz is wonderful here. Notice that he did not learn "reeling & writhing" in music classes the way many violinists have done. Gluck was an innovative genius! This is just one of his many awesomely great melodies.
listening again after some time and really this rendition is superb
Everything about this bestows immortality to the beholder.
(Immersion in these rare classic performances is the only way I can kill the pain of the gruesome news: Should never have waited on abject horror to begin.)
Thank you for this channel.
Are there words to explain something so beautiful?
Yes: "Heifetz"
@@papa_mia4495 Вы очень хорошо подобрали слово, надо сказать. :)
Damn tube, I'd like to like it twice! Brilliant.
Yes, I completely agree! it was one of those "oh, thats how its supposed to be done!" moments. I think it's partly inspired by Auer's teachings as well, now that I skimmed through some parts of his book on violin playing. JH's bow hold is probably more suitable for that particular effect...fascinating!
Leopold Von Auer was a teacher at St Petersburg conservatory. He himself studied violin under Jacob Dont.
That bow hold is natural for his hand formation. Auer didn't teach him that -- it was a natural gift. Even as a child he only ever held it that way - it gives superb power. But in later years of playing high on the lower strings led to shoulder impingement issues and ultimately tore the rotator cuff.
-- C'est un air qui sonne comme une longue plainte, une douleur, une mélodie qui sonnerait, peut-être mais déjà, l'hallali. Heifetz jouait avec son cœur, et son violon était son âme. Un enregistrement précieux, une interprétation qui me touche. --
He plays this as it were a prayer.
El mejor violinista de todos los tiempos JASCHA HEIFETZ...Lo mejor que he escuchado¡¡¡¡¡¡
I agree, he's one of my very fav's specifically FOR the emotion.
Forever the icon for all violinists in the world 🎻 🙏🏻💙🎶🔥
I can listen to him endlessly
heifetz is just simply brilliant. it was sad when he passed away in the 1990s. There's not going to be another heifetz for a long time.
1987
@@kkal9915🙏🙏🙏
This is increadibel phantastic! Thank you Jascha Heifetz for this gift to the mankind. I answer you skimask777, no theire are no words to explain something so beautiful!
Amazing,amazing,amazing great Maestro Heifetz ♫♪♥
Яша--Бог скрипки! Divine!
This film is such an important record of one of the all time great artists.
Jascha Heifetz spielt dieses wunderschöne Musikstück "Melodie"
von Gluck so perfekt,so subtil,einfach großartig!
Genannt: Reigen seliger Geister.
@@borkal969Danke ,wusste ich schon,aber
nochmals darauf hingeweisen schadet nicht
мелодия неслыханной красоты!
И исполнение
The music makes me to remember of my infancy! Thanks master Heifetz.
so beautiful played, his tone touchs in the deepest way!
Wirklich, eine Klasse für sich. Damit hat sich Heifetz unsterblich gemacht👏👏👏👏🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻♥️
I looked at all the other videos with this song and I have to say even with the slight snowish sound this is the best one.
you got some good video! and very nice audio!
i can learn a lot from these videos!
and feel tremendous!
thanks for the post's
jimmy mack-
One of my beloved collections but i lost it somehow... So glad i found it on TH-cam!
Thanks much!
awesome! He was as great as any that ever was.TY for posting this treasure.
Wunderbar gespielt, herrliche Komposition
So wonderful and sensitive performance. Thank you so much.
Sheer bliss to listen to both Rachmaninov and Heifetz playing this piece in turn on their respective instruments. Many thanks for posting. Best wishes.
His vibrato is just "meltingly" good!!
just of the 20th century, this guy is incredible
SO BEAUTIFUL!
If you also practiced and performed for 66,000 QUALITY hours by the age of 37 (when this video was taken), and also emphasizing the growth of your musicality and the subtler things in art, not just technique, maybe....
The sheer number of tones and colors, and above all the searing emotion! @ 2:35, SEAMLESS! Did that bow actually change direction ??
William Primrose said, "He has a panache, an elan, that makes the simplest sonata tremendously exciting. He can break your heart."
Damn, my teacher gave me this rto learn (but on viola), how am i supposed to sound like THIS? lol. Pure emotion.
The intonation is just perfect! Splendid
It's so amazingly beautiful....
Just simply beautiful...
Fuckin' hell ... this man's violin playing was/is a treasure for all of humanity to enjoy.
so touching. I'm playing this song right now. I wish I could play like him.
Piece*
Ejem, piece
@nice guy,
Dear Simon Young Kim,
It's beyond me how you could sell the violin that Heifetz gave you as a gift. I would have treasured that violin for ever. It was a wonderful gesture by Heifetz.
Amazing. He played in Israel once. Many members of my Kibbuts remembered him.His picture is in our library
Sublime ❤❤❤
my favorite piece for the violin of all time.
Ultimate....What music!!What a violinist!
It is one thing to play the violin,it is another to transcend it, I believe Mr.Heifetz falls into that second category.
Simply beautiful
I played it in my last violin concert.... It's beautiful!!!!
The one and only JASCHA HEIFETZ that i love a lots i have most of his CDS and DVD that i cherish
I take the view that Heifetz was a strict tutor. That, however, is the greatest thing that his students could ever wish for. Once judged by Heifetz,,surely the most exacting critic of all,,they would never need to fear future audiences or critics? In viewing his master classes one sees a totally "no nonsense" coach who gets through a large amount of work in the time available. He misses nothing and his demonstrations are stunning. He does have a great underlying sense of humour. I like him
Я горда тем, что это порождение нашей Родины, такие звезды...
Amusing how many people here missed it.
First, see the score to the Kreisler arrangement here:
tinyurl.com/y93zhv2r
In measure 12 (3rd staff down, on the right), where the score indicates, "p - tranquillo", and the notes alternate back and forth, Heifetz plays the two final "C's" of the measure as a dotted 16th and 32nd note, despite the fact that it's written simply as two 16th notes. He does that throughout the composition.
I haven't heard any other violinist make that change. For me, it entirely works, adding a subtle adamant or insistent propulsive force to the musical statement - which is, after all, a kind of plea or prayer.
Heifetz's musical instincts here were completely on point.
I think i like this version more than the one transcribed by Kreisler.
I think Sergey Rakhmaninov,s play of this Melodie is more intimate, heartfelt, and global comprehending of the human divinity... My God
but that was in piano
@dkurgano It probably has to do with his bow hold, which is the Russian grip. Believe it or not, the Russian bow hold is designed to allow you to get MORE power at the tip than the frog, meaning that in the same way that we have to release some of the pressure when we play at the frog in order to get a sweet sound he has to do the same thing at the tip.
Es LA PERFECCION !!
i love love love him and i love love love this piece!
Amazing! As good or better than this has ever or will ever be played. TY SamLee for this great posting.
Wundervoll, Jascha, mein Freund...
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...
When I was learning this piece, I would watch this every single day
Alongside Neveu's this is a defining interpretation of this piece.
Heifetz is at his best when playing lovely short pieces like this one.
After the death of Eurydice her husband Orfeo, who loved her very much, went to the hell to see Hades in order to get her back. He played such wonderful and sad music that Hades was very moved and allowed him to take his wife back to the human world, but under one condition that he shouldn't turn back until they left the death world. But Orfeo was worried about Eurydice who followed him and didn't say a word, so he turned back and lost her forever
God of the Violin
Wonderfulll💜💜💜
Обожаю эту мелодию
Божественно!
I dreamt to sing like Heifetz, when I was a little girl. It was dthe reason I became a musician - because of his sound and his playing... Dorothea
At 1:13 you can't hear the bow change at all! Amazing!
Божественно....
❤
that being said....regardless of what his bow is doing, sure sounds good. one of my favorite recordings of all time!
What passion & perfection. There's only one Heifetz.
idk, it`s like, really smooth, his playing...I love it!
No puedo dejar de escucharlo!
wonderful piece!!!!!
heifetz was the best
Браво, Яша!!!
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 just wanna know how he does the vibrato. So many variations and yet none of them sound like what "modern" violinists do today. We've really lost the way, haven't we?
he is great violin of all time