Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 (reference rec.: Jascha Heifetz / 2023 Remastered)

Album available // Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 by Jascha Heifetz (2024 Remastered, Chicago 1957)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
00:00 I. Allegro moderato, Moderato assai
15:45 II. Canzonetta: Andante
21:17 III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo

Violin: Jascha Heifetz
Chicago Symphony Orchetsra
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Recorded in 1957, at Chicago
New mastering i n 2023 by AB for CMRR

The possessor of this recording holds in his hands a musical document of historical importance, a vessel containing a potent distillation of what is noblest and loveliest in human spirit and human achievement, and the means of evoking that loveliness whenever his own spirit hungers for it. Astronomers, and other scientists, are fascinated when two stars, or two living organisms, come into conjunction while each maintains its separate identity, and to this strange and rare phenomenon they apply one of the most curious and rarest words in the English language—"syzygy." In the field of music, and in its history, the present recording is precisely a parallel: for the constellation, in permanent form, of stars of the magnitude of Heifetz and Reiner is rare and memorable. And the line of syzygy, that both connects and separates these luminaries, is the great Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Heifetz, a figure of towering eminence in the long history of the violin, approaches this concerto with a degree of intimacy and enthusiasm that is, perhaps, his alone, and Reiner brings to bear upon the work presented here the master-musicianship that has distinguished him among the world's most notable conductors of symphonic, operatic and other concerted music.

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Album available // Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 by Jascha Heifetz (2024 Remastered, Chicago 1957)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
00:00 I. Allegro moderato, Moderato assai
15:45 II. Canzonetta: Andante
21:17 III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo

Violin: Jascha Heifetz
Chicago Symphony Orchetsra
Conductor: Fritz Reiner
Recorded in 1957, at Chicago
New mastering i n 2023 by AB for CMRR

Charles O’Connell: When in the spring of 1878 Tchaikovsky completed his Violin Concerto, he dedicated it and presented it to Leopold Auer, who was perhaps the most noted virtuoso and certainly the greatest teacher of his time. The composer must have been bitterly disappointed when the master would not undertake the concerto, declaring it unplayable—so terrifying were its difficulties. The result was that, for three years, everyone was afraid; no one would play it until Adolf Brodsky defied its perils in Vienna, December 4, 1881. After a while Auer reconsidered his verdict, and the concerto, however adequately or inadequately it may have been played, became established among the five or six absolute masterpieces in the literature of the violin. Ironically, perhaps, it was Leopold Auer, aging but still the master teacher, who introduced the music to the young prodigy of whom he was so proud—Jascha Heifetz.

There is no particular need to discuss this incandescent music analytically. It is not, and is not intended to be, a projection of the profound and passionate feelings of a Beethoven, the calculated dramatics or Olympian aloofness ofa Brahms, though to be sure it is passionate, dramatic—at moments—full of sentiment, and in the narrowest and most precise sense, philosophical. Its purpose is to exploit—in and against a setting ofvoluptuous orchestral splendor—the ultimate tonal and technical resources of the violin. It succeeds.

It is impossible to dissociate Tchaikovsky's music from the folk music of his country, just as it was impossible and undesirable for the composer to dissociate himself from the Russian melos. Nevertheless, its influence is filtered through the mind and spirit of an urbane, a sophisticated artist; the resultant flavor is delicately touched with eschalot rather than with the earthier flavor of garlic.

Melancholy, sometimes progressing to abysmal depths, is another quality of Tchaikovsky's music so frequent as to be characteristic, but one finds little of it here. In the canzonetta (second movement) there is sometimes a certain wistfulness, but it is certainly not sad, nor persistent, though it is clearly Russian and typically Tchaikovsky. And in the final movement, the solitary flame of the solo violin sets off a conflagration of tone over rhythms of healthy violence and impetuous drive. One is convinced that the solo violin and the orchestra, alone or together, can do no more.

The possessor of this recording holds in his hands a musical document of historical importance, a vessel containing a potent distillation of what is noblest and loveliest in human spirit and human achievement, and the means of evoking that loveliness whenever his own spirit hungers for it. Astronomers, and other scientists, are fascinated when two stars, or two living organisms, come into conjunction while each maintains its separate identity, and to this strange and rare phenomenon they apply one of the most curious and rarest words in the English language—"syzygy." In the field of music, and in its history, the present recording is precisely a parallel: for the constellation, in permanent form, of stars of the magnitude of Heifetz and Reiner is rare and memorable. And the line of syzygy, that both connects and separates these luminaries, is the great Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Heifetz, a figure of towering eminence in the long history of the violin, approaches this concerto with a degree of intimacy and enthusiasm that is, perhaps, his alone, and Reiner brings to bear upon the work presented here the master-musicianship that has distinguished him among the world's most notable conductors of symphonic, operatic and other concerted music.

Album available // Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 by Jascha Heifetz
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[karllieck]

I have the LP of this recording, and to this day, I have never heard a better performance and sound than this one. This is my go to for Tchaikovsky's great Violin Concerto.

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Charles O’Connell: When in the spring of 1878 Tchaikovsky completed his Violin Concerto, he dedicated it and presented it to Leopold Auer, who was perhaps the most noted virtuoso and certainly the greatest teacher of his time. The composer must have been bitterly disappointed when the master would not undertake the concerto, declaring it unplayable—so terrifying were its difficulties. The result was that, for three years, everyone was afraid; no one would play it until Adolf Brodsky defied its perils in Vienna, December 4, 1881. After a while Auer reconsidered his verdict, and the concerto, however adequately or inadequately it may have been played, became established among the five or six absolute masterpieces in the literature of the violin. Ironically, perhaps, it was Leopold Auer, aging but still the master teacher, who introduced the music to the young prodigy of whom he was so proud—Jascha Heifetz.

There is no particular need to discuss this incandescent music analytically. It is not, and is not intended to be, a projection of the profound and passionate feelings of a Beethoven, the calculated dramatics or Olympian aloofness ofa Brahms, though to be sure it is passionate, dramatic—at moments—full of sentiment, and in the narrowest and most precise sense, philosophical. Its purpose is to exploit—in and against a setting ofvoluptuous orchestral splendor—the ultimate tonal and technical resources of the violin. It succeeds.

It is impossible to dissociate Tchaikovsky's music from the folk music of his country, just as it was impossible and undesirable for the composer to dissociate himself from the Russian melos. Nevertheless, its influence is filtered through the mind and spirit of an urbane, a sophisticated artist; the resultant flavor is delicately touched with eschalot rather than with the earthier flavor of garlic.

Melancholy, sometimes progressing to abysmal depths, is another quality of Tchaikovsky's music so frequent as to be characteristic, but one finds little of it here. In the canzonetta (second movement) there is sometimes a certain wistfulness, but it is certainly not sad, nor persistent, though it is clearly Russian and typically Tchaikovsky. And in the final movement, the solitary flame of the solo violin sets off a conflagration of tone over rhythms of healthy violence and impetuous drive. One is convinced that the solo violin and the orchestra, alone or together, can do no more.

The possessor of this recording holds in his hands a musical document of historical importance, a vessel containing a potent distillation of what is noblest and loveliest in human spirit and human achievement, and the means of evoking that loveliness whenever his own spirit hungers for it. Astronomers, and other scientists, are fascinated when two stars, or two living organisms, come into conjunction while each maintains its separate identity, and to this strange and rare phenomenon they apply one of the most curious and rarest words in the English language—"syzygy." In the field of music, and in its history, the present recording is precisely a parallel: for the constellation, in permanent form, of stars of the magnitude of Heifetz and Reiner is rare and memorable. And the line of syzygy, that both connects and separates these luminaries, is the great Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Heifetz, a figure of towering eminence in the long history of the violin, approaches this concerto with a degree of intimacy and enthusiasm that is, perhaps, his alone, and Reiner brings to bear upon the work presented here the master-musicianship that has distinguished him among the world's most notable conductors of symphonic, operatic and other concerted music.

Album available // Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 by Jascha Heifetz
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[tbarrelier]

I first heard this recording 60 years ago. No one has surpassed it since. I'm not sure anyone has equaled it. The ensemble here is miraculous. Heifetz (Jewel), Master of Masters! Reiner!

[frederickgolding]

This combination of Heifitz, Reiner and the Chicago Symphony is absolutely sublime. For anyone listening not familiar with this music, stay with it as you will not find any other better. Heifitz is so sharp so clear so dramatic as the composer intended. Touches chords in your heart you wouldn't know existed.

[Michael-ntrp]

Of the four great violin concertos, this one is the best by Heifetz.

[tarkusi]

Heiretz was a master of the violin and htis is his materpiece. The best recording of this piece I've heard and I collect them. The virtuosity is incredible.

[franz]

A la question de savoir en quoi consistait son métier de gardien de musée, Mister Bean répondait : je suis assis, je regarde les peintures. Moi, avec la même idiotie, j'ai écouté ce concerto, assis.. Et les larmes sont venues, pour les mêmes raisons que pleurent les enfants sans pouvoir les nommer.
Se sentir, un peu, violon, c'est partager avec lui ce qui relève de l'âme universelle. Bénis soient ceux qui l'apprivoisent et la font chanter, et nous révèlent la part sublime de l'Homme libéré de son idiotie. Merci de ce partage qui nous sauve !

[notaire]

Lebhafte und wunderschöne Interpretation dieses romantischen und perfekt komponierten Konzerts mit seidigem doch gut phrasiertem Ton der unvergleichlichen Solovioline sowie gut harmonisierten und perfekt entsprechenden Tönen der anderen Instrumente. Der zweite Satz klingt besonders schön und echt melodisch. Im Kontrast klingt der dritte Satz echt lebhaft und auch beweglich. Der intelligente und ebenso unvergleichliche Dirigent leitet das ausgezeichnete Orchester im veränderlichen Tempo und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Alles ist wunderbar!

[fransmeersman]

Many thanks Alex (I thought CM/RR was a whole team but you do apparently this great job all alone, my congratulations) for this magnificent remastering, Jascha Heifetz and Fritz Reiner, what more can one ask.

[h-mh]

The canozonetta is of otherwordly beauty! The violin sings it´s soul out - before catching fire in the finale! THIS is inspired! Breathtaking even. So technical brilliance and deeply felt emotions can go hand in hand - check!

[amirmn]

Heifetz and Oistrakh are my favorite violinists

[Violinist]

Amazing quality recording, thank you for uploading this master piece by a great master of violin of all time❤

[django_silent]

감동받다 기차에서 듣다 감동에 잡아먹혀버렸어 믿을수없는 선율 . 지금은 왜 이런 연주가 없을까

[kooisengchng]

He has a great right hand. There is no slippage between bow hair and string which makes a clear clean sound. So develop the R hand. I saw a video of Heifetz's practise schedule in 1957. Watching it you will realise why and how he achieved this skill. Believe it or not, he starts his practice schedule with open strings, with variations, eg slow, fast etc.

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[washingtonferreirateles]

Despite being wonderfully played I find it very hard to listen to as it isn't even the original version, it's Auer's revision of the concert, full of cuts, editions, amendments and so on