Fritz Reiner

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[@spaetensonaten]

For those who are wondering, this is Fritz Reiner conducting Tchaikovsky's violin concerto with Jascha Heifetz as soloist.

[@yehudatoledanobenaim3230]

where is the rest?

[@adam28xx]

It comes from the movie "Carnegie Hall" (1947) which featured the New York Philharmonic and assorted guests. These are all listed in the Wiki entry ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall_(film) ... It's extraordinary that the uploader didn't spell this out under the above video.

[@photo161]

Heifetz and Reiner together ensure glorious music-making.

[@spodvoll]

Among my all-time favorite recordings is Reiner and *Chicago* (rather than NY) accompanying Heifetz in this piece.

[@anon-rf5sx]

Wow that's none other than the great Jascha Heifetz!

[@duwir5959]

his sound was great and his technical abilities limitliess.

[@jeb419]

Wow, Reiner and Heifetz, does it get any better than this!

[@genewagstaff5865]

Their 1957 recording of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto is the forever gold standard. I remember my dad getting it as soon as it was available. How many times he played it I lost track of. He nearly wore it out. Needless to say, it was far and away his favorite Violin concerto, and I am certain it is mine as well. I am glad RCA remastered this onto CD, along with their recording of the Brahms and the recordings of the Beethoven and Mendelssohn concertos Heifetz made with Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony during the same time period. Yes, Dad had the full set, just as I do. The Beethoven and Mendelssohn concertos are also remastered and are in my CD collection. RCA blew it big time when they did not get Heifetz, Piatigorsky, and Rubinstein together to record Beethoven's Triple Concerto. We can only dream what that would have sounded like. All three of the above-named musicians were working with RCA at that time.

[@JuanMartinez-wl5xp]

El MAGISTRAL Violinista JACHA HEÍFETZ ejecuta con un tono de excelencia y un Virtuosismo super deslumbrante ; cada nota se puede escuchar con una transparencia absoluta que lo hace ser un Violinista por siempre Inigualable .

[@jean-christopheMiquel-ef3ur]

Oui, cela est absolument vrai.

[@scotgat]

This is from the 1939 motion picture, "They Shall Have Music", directed by Archie Mayo ("The Petrified Forest").

[@davidlowenkron1812]

No, it is from "Carnegie Hall"!

[@richardboyer1080]

fritz reiner bela bartok piece music for percussion the best ever recorded

[@clivepapayanis3121]

AGREE! and the Concerto for Orchestra on the much anthologized Bartok/Reiner collaboration/combo reigns supreme as well

[@JuanMartinez-wl5xp]

Es un Acompañamiento de Excelencia y un Director Super Magistral.

[@zetrone100]

ON THE WAY to total consciousness where all thoughts and feelings are available and I am ONE with EVERYONE. A friend of mine introduced me to doctor Reiner back in the 1970s. He was an Art Major and we both studied at Indiana University. He said Reiner had no style of his own; he would go back to the original scores and read and investigate everything including scriblings in the margins. He would then conduct the piece the way the composer had intended. The courage to create (book by Rollo May); Reiner left the composer's RESULTS of entering the CHAOS ZONE of creativity alone. Remember the difference between true CHAOS ZONE creativety Mozart and FAKE ADD ON STUFF from the movie AMADAISE (spelling). Thank God for Fritz Reiner. David

[@zetrone100]

Steven......thank you much for this puzzle piece to Fritz Reiner. I so wish I had seen him when my family moved to northwest Indiana back then.

[@zetrone100]

+Steven Moore No one like Reiner today. I enjoy anything done by Reiner because it is pleasantly DIFFERENT than the same piece done by other conductors who added their STYLE on top of the composers work. Reiner , I believe came as close as possible to giving a performance of say Beethoven as to how the composer did it himself and wanted it done. Karajan is one of my favorites. I remember his conduction of Egmont where at just before the WINDUP at the end he internalizes emotions in order to get through it.

[@benkleschinsky]

So Heifetz remembered this all by ear with no sheet music?

[@stddisclaimer8020]

@Ben Kleschinsky: Yeah, and so does Reiner.

[@jamescrawford9883]

Of all the pictures I have ever seen of Reiner, not one shows him smiling! Always a grim ogre!

[@peterhelbich3334]

grüss Gott fritzi vrom vienna Austria

[@MyWissam]

Are they acting?

[@affonsosantos5729]

It seems it was dubbed, but it’s Heifetz and CSO with Reiner, anyway. The greatest violinist ever. Look at how long Reiner’s stick is.

[@2leftfield]

No, i believe the NY Philharmonic was used. If it was dubbed, it was dubbed perfectly (very hard to do).

[@clivepapayanis3121]

They deserve each other ...Dracula and Igor. The feeling of a corpse..between the two of them. DREADFUL. Thank all that is holy that period of interpretive taste is over forever. They'd suck the love, the humor and the pathos of anything they encountered.

[@jenniferloewenstein5867]

Damnation, child. When were you born? The heyday of the symphony is over BECAUSE conductors like Reiner & Stravinsky are gone. They took the mush and sap out of places it was never meant to be - such as in the music of the Gods, who had no time for cheap sentimentalism or shallow emotion

[@clivepapayanis3121]

When was Stravinsky ever a conductor? . Furtwangler, Giulini, Bernstein are great. so are many others. Abbado and Harnoncourt shallow and cheap? "took mush and sap out of places"? Listen a bit more carefully and inform yourself better. Where did you get Stravinsky from: he only conducted his own music on record, no one else's and was certainly not known as a conductor. Reiner is awful, except for Bartok and Strauss. Obviously you didn't get the Dracula/ Frankenstein/ Igor analogy... maybe you are too old. I'm old enough and still have my marbles anyway. And is the heyday of the symphony over? or is that something you made up because nowhere in my statement did I impugn that.

[@jenniferloewenstein5867]

Clive Papayanis Well,

[@clivepapayanis3121]

Well what? You damn me and call me a child; is that all you have ..."well"? In all all seriousness I do hope you are well. At least we like music...and be well!

[@jenniferloewenstein5867]

Clive Papayanis well, the photo I have of Igor with my father after conducting one of his compositions does suggest he was a *conductor* even if it was primarily of his own works. I’m happy to agree we hear music differently, and that your definition of the “heyday” of the symphony orchestra is different than mine. Interestingly, however, Bernstein, who was a good friend of my father’s, felt very much the same as he (my father) did - and many of the great musicians of today look back favorably to the skill, demands, & discipline that were then necessary in order to become a truly great orchestra . Technology is better today. There are unions. Women are better represented in modern symphony orchestras but, in general, neither I nor my many, many musician friends compare the orchestras of today favorably - in quality, interpretation, & mastery of the music - with those under the likes of Walter, Reiner, Steinberg, Bernstein, & so many others.

[@rrrrrr-kb9sb]

I love Reiner but …. Yikes! What a boring piece ….

[@perrysudduth5801]

You’re joking, right? Maybe you should consider posting less …

[@rrrrrr-kb9sb]

@@perrysudduth5801 sometimes the truth hurts

[@perrysudduth5801]

You know, ignorance actually is curable. You should try doing something about that.

[@gordonbartlett1921]

I have heard the violin concerto called many things, but BORING? You either have a bad sense of humor, or need professional help.

[@rrrrrr-kb9sb]

@@perrysudduth5801 sometimes the truth “stings” - that seems to be the case here.