Oscar Shumsky plays Fritz Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro in the Style of Pugnani. (Live 1975).

Oscar Shumsky, violin
Milton Kaye, piano
Live from the legendary 1975 recital.

[@Ronald-qf3hc]

A great artist genius God bless his memories

[@Snkppwh]

진귀한영상이네요^^❤

[@yi-wenjiang835]

Yes. Very rare. Glad you appreciate it! 🤝🎻

[@rubengreenberg2253]

Shumsky was one of the greats. He deserves/ deserved more recognition.

[@萩原耕介]

Yeah! splendid, splendid, splendid, wonderful Fritz Kreisler. I was moved so much. when I was 21years old, I also studied it. (soon be 91yrs.Japanese)

[@yi-wenjiang835]

萩原さん、本当にありがとうございました！

[@M_SC]

I hope you turned 91 and are still listening

[@petercrossley1069]

His projection and tone is stupendous.

[@leonidaso1615]

My gosh, his playing fits Kreisler soo well

[@greggoryrice7046]

What a wonderful accompanist!

[@ts13579_texas_usa]

@greggoryrice7046 Yes, indeed. It's highly doubtful that anyone could accompany Kaye better than Shumsky does!

[@2000VIOLINO]

What a sound !!! , a great concert artist. 👏🏻

[@yi-wenjiang835]

Indeed!

[@PassionJo777]

Mmmm bravissamo!!! My dad played this for his audition for the West Australian symphony orchestra! How could they say no!!??? Btw notice his bowing techniques.....brilliant

[@nrosen8794]

A magisterial artist, The American Master. I would love to see the whole recital.

[@yi-wenjiang835]

There are nine pieces. All uploaded now. King Oscar, 🤝

[@nrosen8794]

Thank you so much.@@yi-wenjiang835

[@almeronfilms]

OUT OF THIS WORLD

[@yi-wenjiang835]

Yes！

[@jonathonglonek4063]

So great, you found all this stuff and put it up. shumsky was one of the very top violinists

[@JuanMartinexplacerez-mw3we]

Maravillosa ejecución del Prestigioso Violinista; interpretando la Obra Maestra de manera Magistral .

[@waterliliesbymonet7827]

He was about 58 years old here. Amazing 😮

[@Gersh_Chervinsky]

Unbelievable clarity of sound and thought

[@GL-hk3xb]

Just amazing! Thanks for sharing🙏

[@regishumbert6420]

The interpretation I prefer

[@robotnik77]

I've heard it played a lot; this I like because it sounds more mature than the fiddlers that just play it for flash.

[@yi-wenjiang835]

Who are those less mature fiddlers? Name a few…would you?

[@M_SC]

Yes please commit so I can compare for myself

[@SuperKoshkin]

Гений на гении, гением погоняет.

[@chrissforza6405]

So powerful. Beautifully played. Thank you for posting.

[@solowcello]

Re Milton Kaye Jascha Heifetz, in Cal­i­for­nia, asked his vio­lin­ist friend Sascha Jacob­son if he knew of an accom­pa­nist who would travel with him on short notice for a USO tour. Jacob­son tele­phoned Paul Bernard, the sec­ond vio­lin­ist in his Musi­cal Arts String Quar­tet, to ask his advice. Bernard was in New York where he worked at the clas­si­cal music radio sta­tion WOR with Milton Kaye. Kaye had per­formed reg­u­larly on WOR since 1932, play­ing every­thing from piano con­cer­tos to accom­pa­ni­ments for other musi­cians on fre­quent live radio broad­casts. Bernard thought highly of Kaye and rec­om­mended him. As a stu­dent at the Juil­liard School, Kaye had accom­pa­nied some of Jacobsen’s stu­dents. Now that Bernard sug­gested him, Jacob­sen remem­bered Kaye. Both agreed that Kaye would be a good choice for Heifetz. Bernard quickly found Kaye and said, “Hey, I just heard that Jascha is look­ing for a pianist.” “Jascha who?” Kaye asked. “What do you mean Jascha who,” Bernard shot back, “there’s only one Jascha. HEIFETZ!” Kaye was stunned. The chance to play with Heifetz was the last thing he ever expected. And the tim­ing was per­fect - he had just signed up as a pianist for the USO. So Bernard arranged for Heifetz to tele­phone Kaye. It was set for 8:00 p.m. the next evening, and Bernard warned Kaye to be wait­ing by the phone. Heifetz would call only once. The call came at pre­cisely 8 o’clock. “Sascha Jacob­son and Paul Bernard both think highly of you,” Heifetz told him. “I will be in New York soon and, if you are inter­ested, per­haps I could hear you play.” With his heart rac­ing, Kaye man­aged to reply: “It would be a privilege.” The audi­tion took place at Heifetz’s suite at 5th Avenue and 59th Street. Heifetz led him to the piano, which was stacked with music. To Kaye, it looked like there must be 300 pieces there. Heifetz took the top piece off the stack, the Lon­don­derry Air (“Danny Boy”) and put it on the piano rack. Kaye glanced over it, took a deep breath, and launched into the intro­duc­tion, but when the vio­lin was sup­posed to enter there was silence. Kaye froze. Why wasn’t Heifetz play­ing? But Heifetz said, “Go on, go on!” Kaye real­ized that Heifetz wanted to see how he would play the accom­pa­ni­ment with­out him. So he tried to guess how Heifetz would play. He sensed Heifetz’s approval. After let­ting Kaye play the entire piano part alone, Heifetz said, “Alright. Now, let’s start again.” This time Heifetz played along, but he was still test­ing Kaye. He played with exag­ger­ated and unpre­dictable rubato as if to say, “Fol­low me, if you can!” As it turned out, Kaye could. His years of expe­ri­ence on the radio play­ing with unpre­dictable musi­cians on short notice had served him well. Heifetz seemed pleased. One by one, they pro­ceeded to read through the stack of music on the piano. As they did so, Kaye noticed that Heifetz had care­fully marked every piano part. The small­est dimin­u­en­dos, crescen­dos, and acceleran­dos were pen­ciled in. Heifetz had even writ­ten in the fin­ger­ings that he wanted the pianist to use. They played for hours. When they got through the stack, it was dark out­side and Heifetz had him­self a pianist. Before Kaye left that day, Heifetz warned that he expected only the best from him. “If you are an artist, you do things cor­rectly,” Heifetz explained. “Not half way - fully.” He paused and looked at Kaye. “Do you want to be an artist?” he asked. Kaye nod­ded. “Then no approx­i­ma­tion,” Heifetz said. The blood must have drained from Kaye’s face, because Heifetz then offered some reveal­ing words of com­fort: “If you think I am tough on you, remem­ber, I am twice as tough on myself.”

[@yi-wenjiang835]

Thank you dear Jeff for posting this wonderful story. No approximations! 👈🤝

[@ts13579_texas_usa]

@solowcello Thanks for that excellent story. It would be great, however, if you would mention your source. Also, you wrote "Jacobson" and "Jacobsen". So which is it, actually? Thanks! ;)

[@robotnik77]

It sounds like Heifetz.

[@ts13579_texas_usa]

@@robotnik77 Could you be more specific about the similarities you hear?

[@yi-wenjiang835]

Really? How?

[@levinsonl]

This dude rips

[@FodorPupil]

It is honest

[@jluebow2]

How about the pianist? Was it Menachem Pressler?

[@yi-wenjiang835]

Please see description.

[@yuanfang3640]

@@yi-wenjiang835 oh it’s Milton Kaye