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A Tribute to Jascha Heifetz

8/28/2015, 19 Tracks, 59:46

Featuring

  • Itzhak Perlman
  • Samuel Sanders
  • Manuel Ponce
  • Moritz Moszkowski
  • Riccardo Drigo
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • Francis Poulenc
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
  • George Gershwin
  • Isaac Albéniz
  • Robert Schumann
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • Joseph Achron
  • Pietro Domenico Paradies
  • Edward Elgar
  • Claude Debussy
  • Stephen Collins Foster

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Notable Performances

Jascha Heifetz continued to perform his own transcriptions in recitals, even in his very last performance in Los Angeles in 1972.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

This album is a tribute to Jascha Heifetz, a violinist considered by his peers to be 'the' violinist of the twentieth century.

Source: Booklet

Interpretation

Itzhak Perlman's playing on this album is characterized by warm sonorities, voluptuous phrasing, and legendary generosity of spirit, rather than mimicking Heifetz's sharp sound.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Itzhak Perlman's selection for this album includes three pieces by Rachmaninov, Rameau, and Paradies that Jascha Heifetz himself never recorded.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Jascha Heifetz, a renowned violinist, made about 150 transcriptions or arrangements of various works.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Jascha Heifetz was always keen to expand the repertoire for his instrument, often including his delightful miniatures in his recitals.

Source: Booklet

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