Jascha Heifetz - Studio Takes
Lollipops, yes, but Heifetz certainly has them licked
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Composer or Director: Robert Schumann, George Gershwin, Alexander Krein, Arthur Benjamin, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Samuel Gardner, Clarence Cameron White, Irving Berlin, Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saëns, Susan Dyer, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Benjamin (Louis Paul) Godard, Julián Aguirre, Christoph Gluck, Cecil Burleigh, Stephen Collins Foster, Sergey Prokofiev, Leopold Godowsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Kurt (Julian) Weill, Traditional, Jascha Heifetz, Flausino Rodrigues do Vale, Johannes Brahms, Edwin Grasse, Claude Debussy, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Victor August Herbert, Robert Russell Bennett, Hermann Löhr, Fryderyk Chopin, Antonín Dvořák
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Magazine Review Date: 11/2006
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 128
Mastering:
Mono
ADD
Catalogue Number: 477 6269GOM2
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| (2) Pieces |
Samuel Gardner, Composer
Jascha Heifetz, Violin Milton Kaye, Piano Samuel Gardner, Composer |
| Jamaican Rumba |
Arthur Benjamin, Composer
Arthur Benjamin, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin Milton Kaye, Piano |
| Beau soir |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin Milton Kaye, Piano |
| Pièce en forme de habanera |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
Jascha Heifetz, Violin Maurice Ravel, Composer Milton Kaye, Piano |
| Levee Dance |
Clarence Cameron White, Composer
Clarence Cameron White, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin Milton Kaye, Piano |
| Paraphrase on Rossini's 'Largo al Factotum' |
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Composer
Jascha Heifetz, Violin Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Composer Milton Kaye, Piano |
| Jeanie with the light brown hair |
Stephen Collins Foster, Composer
Jascha Heifetz, Violin Milton Kaye, Piano Stephen Collins Foster, Composer |
| A la valse |
Victor August Herbert, Composer
Jascha Heifetz, Violin Milton Kaye, Piano Victor August Herbert, Composer |
| (8) Humoresques, Movement: No. 7 in G flat |
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin Milton Kaye, Piano |
| Gweedore Brae |
Traditional, Composer
Jascha Heifetz, Violin Milton Kaye, Piano Traditional, Composer |
| Old folks at home |
Stephen Collins Foster, Composer
Jascha Heifetz, Violin Milton Kaye, Piano Stephen Collins Foster, Composer |
| Deep River |
Traditional, Composer
Jascha Heifetz, Violin Milton Kaye, Piano Traditional, Composer |
| (12) Impressions, Movement: Viennese (Wienerisch) |
Leopold Godowsky, Composer
Jascha Heifetz, Violin Leopold Godowsky, Composer Milton Kaye, Piano |
| White Christmas, Movement: White Christmas |
Irving Berlin, Composer
Irving Berlin, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin Salvatore Camarata, Conductor Salvatore Camarata Orchestra |
| Porgy and Bess, Movement: Summertime |
George Gershwin, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano George Gershwin, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Porgy and Bess, Movement: A woman is a sometime thing |
George Gershwin, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano George Gershwin, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Porgy and Bess, Movement: My man's gone now |
George Gershwin, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano George Gershwin, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Porgy and Bess, Movement: It ain't necessarily so |
George Gershwin, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano George Gershwin, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Porgy and Bess, Movement: There's a boat dat's leavin' |
George Gershwin, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano George Gershwin, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Porgy and Bess, Movement: Bess, you is my woman now |
George Gershwin, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano George Gershwin, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| (3) Preludes |
George Gershwin, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano George Gershwin, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Outlandish Suite |
Susan Dyer, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin Susan Dyer, Composer |
| Children's Corner, Movement: Golliwog's cakewalk |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Suite bergamasque, Movement: Clair de lune |
Claude Debussy, Composer
Claude Debussy, Composer Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Preludio XV, 'Ao pé da fogueira' |
Flausino Rodrigues do Vale, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano Flausino Rodrigues do Vale, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Huella |
Julián Aguirre, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin Julián Aguirre, Composer |
| (24) Preludes, Movement: C sharp minor |
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| (24) Preludes, Movement: D flat |
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Wellenspiel |
Edwin Grasse, Composer
Edwin Grasse, Composer Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| March and Scherzo from The Love for Three Oranges |
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin Sergey Prokofiev, Composer |
| (10) Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Masks |
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin Sergey Prokofiev, Composer |
| Hexapoda |
Robert Russell Bennett, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin Robert Russell Bennett, Composer |
| (Der) Dreigroschenoper, '(The) Threepenny Opera', Movement: Moritat von Mackie Messer (Eng: Ballad of Mack the Knife) |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer |
| Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Movement: No. 3, Mélodie in E flat |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer |
| Nocturnes, Movement: No. 16 in E flat, Op. 55/2 |
Fryderyk Chopin, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Orfeo ed Euridice, Movement: Ballet in D minor (Dance of the Blessed Spirits): (flute solo) |
Christoph Gluck, Composer
Christoph Gluck, Composer Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Waldszenen, Movement: Vogel als Prophet |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin Robert Schumann, Composer |
| (The) Golden Cockerel, '(Le) Coq d'Or', Movement: Hymn to the Sun |
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Composer |
| Dance No. 4 |
Alexander Krein, Composer
Alexander Krein, Composer Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| (21) Hungarian Dances, Movement: No. 7 in A |
Johannes Brahms, Composer
Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin Johannes Brahms, Composer |
| (Le) Carnaval des animaux, 'Carnival of the Animals', Movement: The swan |
Camille Saint-Saëns, Composer
Camille Saint-Saëns, Composer Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| (6) Pictures |
Cecil Burleigh, Composer
Cecil Burleigh, Composer Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| (4) Small Concert Pieces |
Cecil Burleigh, Composer
Cecil Burleigh, Composer Emanuel Bay, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Violin |
| Jocelyn |
Benjamin (Louis Paul) Godard, Composer
Benjamin (Louis Paul) Godard, Composer Bing Crosby, Singer Jascha Heifetz, Violin Victor Young Orchestra |
| Where my caravan has rested |
Hermann Löhr, Composer
Bing Crosby, Singer Hermann Löhr, Composer Jascha Heifetz, Violin Victor Young Orchestra |
| When You Make Love to Me (Don't Make Believe) |
Jascha Heifetz, Composer
Jascha Heifetz, Piano Jascha Heifetz, Composer |
Author: Andrew Lamb
For almost all his career Heifetz recorded for Victor and RCA. From 1942, however, the American recording industry was in dispute with the musicians’ union, and when American Decca settled early with the union they snapped up Heifetz. The result was the 40-odd 78rpm sides collected together here.
All are self-contained short items, essentially representing Heifetz in “lollipop” mode. Many are arrangements of the likes of Debussy, Ravel, Stephen Foster, Gershwin, and other classical composers. Others are trifles that are little known today – and all the more welcome for that. Apart from a cringe-inducing arrangement of Berlin’s White Christmas with Salvatore Camarata and his orchestra, it’s impressive stuff. Heifetz’s playing exudes beauty of tone, a striking range of light and shade, depths of emotion, and dazzling virtuosity. Not least there are the glorious flights of fancy, as in the arrangements of Rossini’s “Largo al factotum” or Weill’s “Mack the Knife”.
The recordings were all included in RCA’s “Heifetz Collection” (11/94); but they’re more sensibly arranged here. They come in matrix order, from the earliest tracks in October 1944 to the final Jocelyn “Berceuse” and “Where my caravan has rested’, recorded in July 1946 with Heifetz and the Victor Young Orchestra accompanying Bing Crosby. An appended brief piano solo of Heifetz in a popular song of his own composition provides a little added interest. There’s timeless artistry here, and the astonishing immediacy of the transfers, for which DG have added “discreet stereo ambience”, makes nonsense of the age of the recordings.
All are self-contained short items, essentially representing Heifetz in “lollipop” mode. Many are arrangements of the likes of Debussy, Ravel, Stephen Foster, Gershwin, and other classical composers. Others are trifles that are little known today – and all the more welcome for that. Apart from a cringe-inducing arrangement of Berlin’s White Christmas with Salvatore Camarata and his orchestra, it’s impressive stuff. Heifetz’s playing exudes beauty of tone, a striking range of light and shade, depths of emotion, and dazzling virtuosity. Not least there are the glorious flights of fancy, as in the arrangements of Rossini’s “Largo al factotum” or Weill’s “Mack the Knife”.
The recordings were all included in RCA’s “Heifetz Collection” (11/94); but they’re more sensibly arranged here. They come in matrix order, from the earliest tracks in October 1944 to the final Jocelyn “Berceuse” and “Where my caravan has rested’, recorded in July 1946 with Heifetz and the Victor Young Orchestra accompanying Bing Crosby. An appended brief piano solo of Heifetz in a popular song of his own composition provides a little added interest. There’s timeless artistry here, and the astonishing immediacy of the transfers, for which DG have added “discreet stereo ambience”, makes nonsense of the age of the recordings.
Jascha Heifetz - Studio Takes
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