Heifetz Rehearsals & Conversation

From a French documentary. All clips of JH extracted and appear here.

[@tarikbairu1648]

The best violinist ever✨✨✨

[@robertoandonie9257]

Do you think he is better than Kreisler? Just asking

[@lordhenrywotton69]

@@robertoandonie9257 yes

[@gordonwu6828]

Yes

[@lisamuse574]

@@robertoandonie9257 Kreisler was a great violinist, too.

[@wannabecat369]

Kreisler was Heifetz's idol. He hung his picture, and his picture alone, in his studio.

[@gregemerson7648]

My clarinet teacher, Principal Clarinetist in the Toronto Symphony, (Avraham Galper), for 30 years plus, always felt he was the greatest musician that lived...no doubt had the honour to play with him as soloist.

[@Bailey2006a]

still the greatest to ever pick up a violin... incomparable

[@rheumer]

Couldn't agree more!

[@gregfinejazz]

To watch on this unique Man is the greatest please and happy!❤ Thanks to Him! He is the greatest example for the musicians of the future!

[@ilyaesq]

Genius, pure genius!

[@TheRobe477]

Quelle générosité. Quelle gentillesse.

[@Unidentifying]

splendid phrasing and sounds

[@user-cq9sk9ju2b]

流石に　素晴らしい演奏 自分では引け無いが　貴重な運指の画像を見られて嬉しい！

[@lukashf8440]

his bowing oh my godddd... even at that age I only wish I can understand this silly language they're speaking :D

[@berlinzerberus]

MESMERIZING

[@ss032010310103]

Thank you so much!

[@michaelturov4439]

wellington cardoso da silva Cardoso...Heifetz was special human with his special talent for violin.

[@BogdanVacarescu]

Thanks for this!

[@martinrichard572]

En francais, in french, Superbe Superb

[@Twentythousandlps]

Never has a violinist elected to lead an orchestra while playing a multi-tempo 19th century work. Why Heifetz insisted on doing so (for the first time in his life), is a complete mystery, and he embarrassed himself as a result. The orchestra is in desperate need of someone to just beat time in a work that was likely unfamiliar to them.

[@pneron2032]

Did he insist?

[@Twentythousandlps]

Well, it certainly was his idea alone, and they weren't about to cross him.

[@pneron2032]

@@Twentythousandlps What's your source? I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm just interested in what led to this debacle.

[@solowcello]

He wanted the performance to be just him and the orchestra without “third party” (conductor) involvement.

[@srinitaaigaura]

By that point Heifetz was beginning to fall out with pretty much everyone actually. He didn't like conductors forcing their ideas on his. Apparently he only agreed to do this if there was no conductor. While his abilities as a violinist and musician remained supreme, mentally he was beginning to get very moody, cranky, even depressed. The last 2 decades of his life were a slow, very torturous decline. Only music and the efforts of the few who dared to stay and put up with him helped him. After this concert he declared he had played enough concertizing for a lifetime and only gave recitals for a couple of years more. It's all in Ayke Agus's book. Jim Hoyl the man was a very tortured soul, while Jascha Heifetz was the world's supreme violinist.

[@TheZombieGAGA]

11:30 love the bow strokes

[@Tiago-ss5pk]

Genius! The glory of God

[@robotnik77]

Wow. I've never seen this before.

[@ElSmusso]

Tres bien!

[@vaughnhale7903]

God’s fiddler in action

[@KosteckiAdam]

Genius...

[@AdamantSeraph]

Plays like James Bond, speaks like Mr.Bean

[@michaelturov4439]

sasidhar dara: on 1:19 Heifetz is playing "Porgy and Bess" by Gershwin

[@philipgreenberg3864]

Gershwin "It ain't necessaarily so".

[@michaelturov4439]

@@philipgreenberg3864 I played this amazing opera in Chicago 1983.

[@violinhunter2]

Heifetz should have hired a conductor for this - that might have fixed the sloppy ending at 12:39 (among other things) - in the televised video, one can see him gesturing to the concertmaster afterward as if to say "well, so much for all that rehearsing."

[@SylviaXTan]

agree, probably that's why Heifetz himself later hated this performance and felt embarrassed by it

[@heifetz14]

That leader was wearing bycicle clips because he was actually shitting himself.

[@srinitaaigaura]

@@SylviaXTan Heifetz had become a very difficult man by this point. He fell out with everyone who didn't do it his way and only agreed to do this without a conductor. And wasn't too happy and never did another recital with an orchestra again...

[@debwagner7505]

violinhunter2 The ending was fine.

[@sebastiandangerfield9933]

Oh - and I suppose he told you this himself… 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@wellingtonkadosh7549]

Heifetz wasnt human. Divine.

[@srinitaaigaura]

Only when he had a violin in his hand. All other times.... sheesh, Ayke Agus' book was not warts and all, it was all warts. So let's just admire the divine playing and be grateful to hear such artistry.

[@brynjarhoff-lr6hw]

In Norwegian: De som leser mine kommentarer må jo tro jeg er gal.JA Heifetz gal! Blir aldri lei av ham.

[@popitoto]

Ja'i toujours aime son interpretation de la symphonie ecosaise!!Dommage que vous n'avez que des extraits...Son disparition de la scene Parisienne etait due a des mauvaises critiques Francaises sur ses concerts..c'est bien cela?

[@musicrevolution7617]

Secondo te i francesi non apprezzavano la sua musica?

[@user-xh2kj4ui4r]

I knew it! yeah! I'm sorry I didn't get it, because by my poor hearing English. I guess he is talking about mysterious rhythm which is concerned with tempo through to the end. I would feel music is dominated over tempo. If someone stumble at tempo which is to change in every passages, music should be another touch. Heifetz sensibility touch is so fantastic and mysterious always. (sorry strange English)soon be 91yrs.JapaneseI'm the one of his fans since I947.

[@violintuno]

Great document! May you write the documental's title? Regards.

[@SylviaXTan]

This rehearsal should be for the only one television appearance of Mr. Heifetz in 1970 with the French National Orchestra in Paris for American broadcast. There is another live video of this event on KZbin. Just search by Heifetz Scottish Fantasy.

[@christopherhogan691]

At the beginning was Kreisler's Präludium and Allegro.. Then it went to the first.. Second and other movements from The Scottish Fantasy from Max Bruch.. And in between was excerps of the LOVE of the Three Oranges.. from Prokovief. If I missed anything sorry.. Oh yes.. the Girl with the Red blond (Flaxen) hair.. A traditional irish-american Melody.. But i forgot the composer...oh yes I forgot G. Gerschwin 's IT AINT NECESSAIRILY SO from Porgy and Bess.. This rendition was arranged by Heifetz

[@penelopewhite5074]

Est que cette narrateur est qui a interviewez William Kapell et Ginette Neveu? Sounde beacoup similiare (Rene Avrele je pense il est apellez)

[@penelopewhite1509]

Je pense la raison il joue si expresivement. La phanton du Ginette!!!

[@daleelashea]

Is the opening "Preludium and Allegro" played by Hefietz?

[@deepdark795]

It really sounds like Milstein

[@nicholasc6686]

+daleelashea Yes.

[@alexanderurban4637]

They had the same teacher Although Heifetz vibrato is unique

[@cyrusahadpour4820]

Princesses of violin

[@TaiArnold]

I also think that it's played by Milstein

[@user-ec6kt2fg7m]

Gotta love KZbin.

[@oliverblaylock4642]

Yes. Kreisler

[@malcolmwhitehead7225]

The man is a paragon. Unrivalled. Paganini? We ll never know. But we will always have Jascha. MW

[@penelopewhite1509]

Le voi du le narateur est beacoup similar du Jean Paul Neveu. Le cadaveur du lui ete jamais trouvais. Etrange, n'est pas?

[@241hnd]

Does anyone know the name of the song at the beginning of the video?

[@chrisgrow22]

You hear the Preludium and Allegro at beginning

[@jontti78]

It ain´t neceserely so, from the opera Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin.

[@rockhard2654]

is very simple he practiced better, harder and longer than anyone ever had before or since

[@rheumer]

Not that simple. He was also born with a brain and body that were perfectly suited to implement his desires and dedication!

[@robotnik77]

Pablo de Sarasate: "A genius! For 37 years I have practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius!"

[@pneron2032]

He also happened to be born with a violinist father. No small advantage.

[@sherlockholmes7770]

can anyone tell me what's he playing at 1.19

[@playboismarties20]

Yesssss i need it too

[@rheumer]

It's his arrangement of "It ain't necessarily so" by George Gershwin.

[@sherlockholmes7770]

got it..thanQ..

[@playboismarties20]

Thankssssssss

[@Unidentifying]

10:00

[@user-zp5rc1sl3n]

Сказано, - что толку человеку приобрести весь мир, а душе своей повредить (Евангелие). Его тело сожгли. Блаженная Матрёна московская, слепенькая, - кого сожгли, те не наследуют Царствия Небесного. Это лишь некая дань моде и вере, что из праха БОГ создал человека. Но в книге пророка Иезекииля, БОГ воссоздавал людей из костей, а не из праха.

[@Joker-lt7pf]

Pointless to perform without conductor on that level. Orchestra 👎