[78-L] heifetz

[Taylor Bowie]

Wow...you've got me cranked to hear this record,  David.  I don't have very 
many classical discs but perhaps I've got it buried in my storage.  What is 
the issue number and when was it recorded?

thanks from

Taylor B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DAVID BURNHAM" <burnhamd at rogers.com>
To: <78-L at 78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 4:13 PM
Subject: [78-L] heifetz


To me, the most hair-raising Heifetz recording ever made was "La Ronde des 
Lutins", particularly the first acoustic recording. He nails every run, 
every harmonic and, having just listened to a couple of You Tube 
performances by Vengerov and Perlman, you can hear how these very 
accomplished violinists bury handfulls of wrong notes in the rapid clusters. 
Listen to the acoustic Heifetz and forget about anything Heifetz would have 
become in later years. Try to appreciate that you're hearing a 15 or 16 year 
old boy, who could have missed a lot of the runs and still would have been 
impressive, and wonder at the shear perfection of the performance, the 
harmonics are flawless and sound effortless. Heifetz' later recordings of 
this work are no less exciting but youth is no longer an element.

db
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