Wonderful performance, but I do not agree with those who call it the greatest performance ever. For example, I if compare it with the brilliant performance of Zino Francescatti (with Bernstein), for me there is more character and warmth in Francescatti's performance. A great performance is more than just brilliant technique. I my opinion Francescatti makes the music speak more than what Rabin is able do here.
I personally think Zino Francescatti takes it way to fast, (in the introduction especially) but that's my opinion. You can certainly make case that a faster tempo fits the style of the piece.
This is a matter of taste, of course, but for me Francescatti's phrasing just doesn't do it. I believe that no recording of this piece comes even close to Rabin's in virtuosity, emotion and even recorded sound.
Loved this recording as a kid, and definitely put some wear on it. Some times the experiences we had as an impressionable kid don't quite hold up 50-odd years later, but the recordings on this album do. Rabin and Slatkin produced one of the most luscious and purely enjoyable violin recordings ever.
Michael Rabin was one of the most superlative talents to emerge anywhere in the world. In 1950, at 14, he established himself as a genuine prodigy when he brilliantly recorded eleven Paganini caprices. A young man of extraordinary promise whose violinistic attributes were practically flawless, he possessed a powerful "fourth finger" that would make almost any violinist green with envy. All this was abetted by an instinctive suavity of phrasing and delivery recalling only the most supreme among his colleagues. Tenderness, charm, and a certain gentleness of character pervaded much of his playing, along with his tremendous virtuoso flair and daring. In his prime years his performance consistently exuded the aura of youth. It was the art of a phenomenal young violinist still en route to intellectual, spiritual, and cultural maturity. The premature demise of Michael Rabin was a tragic loss to the world of violin art, and we can best pay him tribute by continuing to listen to and revel in the splendor of his recorded heritage". He played the 1735 "Kubelik" Guarnerius del Gesù. Very first made in US on Capitol SP 8510 Rainbow FDS Medallion Stereo Label, pressed in 1960 for French market. Program of the LP: -The Magic Bow-Caprice Viennois, Hora Staccato, Meditation, Zigeunerweisen, Moto Perpetuo, The Old Refrain, The Flight Of The Bumblebee, and Introduction And Rondo Capriccioso. Michael Rabin, violin, accompanied by The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra under Felix Slatkin.
For me, for my personal taste, that is the best performance of the Rondo Capriccioso of Sait-Saens ever. Thre are other brilliant versions, but that one touches your soul deeply. For me is the best.
I have the original record, it is simply beautiful and I really love it, Michael Rabin for me is one of the all time great violinists beside Oistrakh and Neveu.
Beautiful performance, a gorgeous sound (even over RUclips), with wonderful feeling, contrast, and flair. How tragic that Michael Rabin left this Earth at such a young age.
Веing deeply overwhelmed...and full of gratitude.. Feeling, like not a human being is playing, but the VIOLIN itself... It is one soul..Michael Rabin and the violin..❤💔❤💔❤.......
Just beautiful and great performance as Zino Francescatti's . Thank you for sharing .But both warmth , soul whispering and just brilliant virtuosity in rondo you can hear only in Anna Karkowska 's rendition
Listen to his powerful, seamless bowing and the way he creates that incomparable soaring sound. No one else could match this, with the exception of Heifetz. The definitive recording, and it's not even close.
This is exactly what music is about. Michael is playing it slow in most parts if judged by standards of many in the present time. What he achieves is the soft, precise and wonderful tone to his liking and the marked personal expression (more easily performed in slower tempo). Some would like it, some would prefer the sentiment of Zino, or Oistrach, or Stern. And they would all be right, as well as their favorite performer. This makes us all united in one wonderful musical family even if our tasts are different. Quite contrary to the troubled world, ruined by the superriches degenerats making disputes, wars and spreading evil.
Superb performance, technically brilliant and great feeling for a Man only 22 years old. We lost him far too early. By the way, to anyone not a Violinist, those upbow staccato passages are daunting, and to deliver them with such clarity is humbling.
I heard Rabin play the Mendelssohn a few months before his untimely death. I was a member of an amateur orchestra and he was the soloist. I think the recording don't do justice to his tone in real-life. He was astounding violinist.
Magnifica e romantica interpretazione di questo popolarissimo "pezzo" per violino. Il suono o la "cavata" di questo grande violinista, scomparso prematuramente, è ideale!!!
I am somewhat biased by an uncontrollable factor here. I have the CD with David Oistrakh and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch played on a true (since the following term is overused) audiophile system, Audio Research preamp, fast-sampling CD player, $6,000 speakers (their price in 1979), $185 interconnect cables... . I also have Rabin on CD. Oistrakh wins by a mile in that comparison. I don't have Francescatti or Milstein on CD.
@@alenagorina4199 Unlike Oistrakh, who came from a non-musical family, Rabin's mother was a concert pianist and his father played the violin in the New York SO. He had been performing for 18 years before this recording was made. I don't consider that to be inexperienced. Because he was Jewish, Oistrakh's career was held back for many years. The Soviet Union was hideously antisemitic. I doubt you will find many people, although I'm one of them, who would rank Oistrakh #1 among 20th-century violinists. Usually, Jascha Heifetz would be ranked #1. Oistrakh would make the top five. But he split his career between performing on the viola (his first instrument) and the violin, as well as taking on many students and conducting. Rabin did not spread himself among so many careers, he only wanted to play the violin. He didn't conduct, have students, or play other instruments. Oistrakh also (IMO) wasted a lot of his time working with his son. The son eventually became acceptable, but that was about it.
WOW 😲😲😲, I've own many versions of this piece from all the great ones including Heifetz ,1940s RCA but this one from the infamous Rabin JUST Mind blowing !! Could you please provide more info on this Specific recording I'll greatly appreciate it...
Fantastic, golden tone and a great, inspiring performance. Francescatti cannot match Rabins tone and expressive powers. Many thanks for providing this version, sounds much better than my CD set.
Я, только родился в 58 году, а в доме, у деда, волшебство творилось. Где -то, там под коркой, меж нанесе"нным , ... ( но мой папа, говорил, слушай д. Ф. Ойстраха. )
Excellent performance - certainly worth five stars. However I still prefer Oistrakh's version - not for technique, but for that gorgeous lush sound that nobody else produced.
Wonderful performance, but I do not agree with those who call it the greatest performance ever. For example, I if compare it with the brilliant performance of Zino Francescatti (with Bernstein), for me there is more character and warmth in Francescatti's performance. A great performance is more than just brilliant technique. I my opinion Francescatti makes the music speak more than what Rabin is able do here.
I personally think Zino Francescatti takes it way to fast, (in the introduction especially) but that's my opinion. You can certainly make case that a faster tempo fits the style of the piece.
Ewald Steyn
No!! There is NO comparison between Rabin and francesconi/Zino. Sorry good Man!!
@@wendymyers3182 You are correct, there is simply no comparison....Michael Rabin all the way!
I love Oistrakh interpretation!!! Everyone has his favorite. Anyway, I admire all of them, they were great men!!!
This is a matter of taste, of course, but for me Francescatti's phrasing just doesn't do it. I believe that no recording of this piece comes even close to Rabin's in virtuosity, emotion and even recorded sound.
Loved this recording as a kid, and definitely put some wear on it. Some times the experiences we had as an impressionable kid don't quite hold up 50-odd years later, but the recordings on this album do. Rabin and Slatkin produced one of the most luscious and purely enjoyable violin recordings ever.
Michael Rabin was one of the most superlative talents to emerge anywhere in the world. In 1950, at 14, he established himself as a genuine prodigy when he brilliantly recorded eleven Paganini caprices. A young man of extraordinary promise whose violinistic attributes were practically flawless, he possessed a powerful "fourth finger" that would make almost any violinist green with envy. All this was abetted by an instinctive suavity of phrasing and delivery recalling only the most supreme among his colleagues. Tenderness, charm, and a certain gentleness of character pervaded much of his playing, along with his tremendous virtuoso flair and daring. In his prime years his performance consistently exuded the aura of youth. It was the art of a phenomenal young violinist still en route to intellectual, spiritual, and cultural maturity.
The premature demise of Michael Rabin was a tragic loss to the world of violin art, and we can best pay him tribute by continuing to listen to and revel in the splendor of his recorded heritage". He played the 1735 "Kubelik" Guarnerius del Gesù.
Very first made in US on Capitol SP 8510 Rainbow FDS Medallion Stereo Label, pressed in 1960 for French market.
Program of the LP: -The Magic Bow-Caprice Viennois, Hora Staccato, Meditation, Zigeunerweisen, Moto Perpetuo, The Old Refrain, The Flight Of The Bumblebee, and Introduction And Rondo Capriccioso. Michael Rabin, violin, accompanied by The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra under Felix Slatkin.
For me, for my personal taste, that is the best performance of the Rondo Capriccioso of Sait-Saens ever. Thre are other brilliant versions, but that one touches your soul deeply. For me is the best.
Absolutely!
OK but listen Kogan
I have the original record, it is simply beautiful and I really love it, Michael Rabin for me is one of the all time great violinists beside Oistrakh and Neveu.
Beautiful performance, a gorgeous sound (even over RUclips), with wonderful feeling, contrast, and flair. How tragic that Michael Rabin left this Earth at such a young age.
Веing deeply overwhelmed...and full of gratitude..
Feeling, like not a human being is playing, but the VIOLIN itself...
It is one soul..Michael Rabin and the violin..❤💔❤💔❤.......
Thank you for writing! david
best performance of the Rondo Capriccioso of Sait-Saens ever.
This ist the best version EVER !!! Michael Rabin ist the best violonist ever and his interpretations are always divine ..
Just beautiful and great performance as Zino Francescatti's . Thank you for sharing .But both warmth , soul whispering and just brilliant virtuosity in rondo you can hear only in Anna Karkowska 's rendition
Listen to his powerful, seamless bowing and the way he creates that incomparable soaring sound. No one else could match this, with the exception of Heifetz. The definitive recording, and it's not even close.
This performance is spacious, enjoyed and wonderfully brilliant and lyrical by turns. I delight in it! It is so clear ... so good!
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated! david
greatest violinist i love all his videos sad he left this world
The magic bow, that is so true, such wonderful bowing!!!! Michael Rabin a true violin legend!!!!
This is exactly what music is about.
Michael is playing it slow in most parts if judged by standards of many in the present time. What he achieves is the soft, precise and wonderful tone to his liking and the marked personal expression (more easily performed in slower tempo).
Some would like it, some would prefer the sentiment of Zino, or Oistrach, or Stern.
And they would all be right, as well as their favorite performer.
This makes us all united in one wonderful musical family even if our tasts are different. Quite contrary to the troubled world, ruined by the superriches degenerats making disputes, wars and spreading evil.
Superb performance, technically brilliant and great feeling for a Man only 22 years old. We lost him far too early.
By the way, to anyone not a Violinist, those upbow staccato passages are daunting, and to deliver them with such clarity is humbling.
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated.
Thank you David, it's superb.
Превосходно! Это - лучшее исполнение !
Thanks david, such wonderful playing, rare intenste tone, many virtues, a great tragic figure.
That's my favourite version! ♥️
I heard Rabin play the Mendelssohn a few months before his untimely death. I was a member of an amateur orchestra and he was the soloist. I think the recording don't do justice to his tone in real-life. He was astounding violinist.
un enchantement de tous les instants,un violon miraculeux
Magnifica e romantica interpretazione di questo popolarissimo "pezzo" per violino. Il suono o la "cavata" di questo grande violinista, scomparso prematuramente, è ideale!!!
Si!!!
Michael Rabin forever!!!
Breathtaking performance with perfect technique and innate romanticism! There was definitely a world of real virtuosi more than fifty years ago.
Kogan, Francescatti, Oistrakh, Heifetz, Stern, Grumiaux.......
Also Szigeti, Milstein, Menuhin...Sorry, they are all gone.
I agree!!!!! Rabin is a miracle
@@violinstudyingpiano8352 Thanks for your affirmative reply. Yes, he is a true miracle.
Unbelievable! This so grabs the listener. For clarity and technique listen to Milstein, for clarity, technique and FEELING listen to Rabin.
I am somewhat biased by an uncontrollable factor here. I have the CD with David Oistrakh and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch played on a true (since the following term is overused) audiophile system, Audio Research preamp, fast-sampling CD player, $6,000 speakers (their price in 1979), $185 interconnect cables... . I also have Rabin on CD. Oistrakh wins by a mile in that comparison. I don't have Francescatti or Milstein on CD.
@@gerryr1852 David Oystrakh is number one in the world it is unfair to compare young and unfortunately early deeased brilliant violinist
@@alenagorina4199 Unlike Oistrakh, who came from a non-musical family, Rabin's mother was a concert pianist and his father played the violin in the New York SO. He had been performing for 18 years before this recording was made. I don't consider that to be inexperienced. Because he was Jewish, Oistrakh's career was held back for many years. The Soviet Union was hideously antisemitic. I doubt you will find many people, although I'm one of them, who would rank Oistrakh #1 among 20th-century violinists. Usually, Jascha Heifetz would be ranked #1. Oistrakh would make the top five. But he split his career between performing on the viola (his first instrument) and the violin, as well as taking on many students and conducting. Rabin did not spread himself among so many careers, he only wanted to play the violin. He didn't conduct, have students, or play other instruments. Oistrakh also (IMO) wasted a lot of his time working with his son. The son eventually became acceptable, but that was about it.
d'une beauté absolue qui sublime saint-saens
The only and lonely....
Genius.....
The best performance of this piece ever! Thank you, David!
Excellent conversion result. Thanks for posting.
Beautiful bel canto playing that’s been lost with the younger generation of hot shots.
Thank goodness for RUclips.
BRAVO!!! was absolutely floored after hearing this on a compilation LP by Time-Life Records- the Opulent Era
NO ONE DISLIKED IT. THAT'S RIGHT!! 👍👍👍👍
Saint-Saens / Michael Rabin, 1958: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso - Felix Slatkin
I'm confused, is this Rabin or Slatkin?
+bluechazzan Slatkin is the conductor.
Many thanks for this gem! Great interpretation of M. Rabin....
Stellar...just bookmarked it.
WOW 😲😲😲, I've own many versions of this piece from all the great ones including Heifetz ,1940s RCA but this one from the infamous Rabin JUST Mind blowing !! Could you please provide more info on this Specific recording I'll greatly appreciate it...
He was a genius!!!
...still is!
Fantastic violinist.
I have this LP (well, a later reissue); the whole album is extraordinary.
Maravilloso! Armony and colour deeply brilliant
Grand et talentueux violoniste !
Did anyone else notice that one picture describing Rabin's 31 performances of Paganini in one week??? Shew!!! Unbelievable!!
Tragic life, although brilliant!
Good Lord, he could play!
ВЕЛИКИЙ, ВЕЛИКИЙ, ВЕЛИКИЙ коган !!!!!
Играет не Коган.
@@Tigster Играет Ваш дедушка, Вы не узнали, САЛЮТ !!!
Jesus, what a sound.
perfect.... Perfect PERFECT !!!
Fantastic, golden tone and a great, inspiring performance. Francescatti cannot match Rabins tone and expressive powers. Many thanks for providing this version, sounds much better than my CD set.
Francescatti cannot match WHAT?! Are you DEAF???
Nobody can touch Rabin!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Personally, my preferred version is Renee Chemet with her beautiful portamenti and elan. But Rabin is excellent too, of course. Lovely video.
Волшебно
It sounds a bit like David Oistrakh's interpretation.
BOTH ARE BEAUTIFUL!
Yes kez dset tetai. Yes el kez Karag.
Я, только родился в 58 году, а в доме, у деда, волшебство творилось. Где -то, там под коркой, меж нанесе"нным , ... ( но мой папа, говорил, слушай д. Ф. Ойстраха. )
Great feelings. Bravo Michael . I missed you so much.I think you play better than Itzhak Perlman.
A shto dayot?
Excellent performance - certainly worth five stars. However I still prefer Oistrakh's version - not for technique, but for that gorgeous lush sound that nobody else produced.
Dazzling.
Vivian Hagner played the best version I've heard; all said Michael was one of the best and like Christian, another "strange death"?
Very, very strange.....providing it is true account....which I do NOT believe!
请问这绝世悲曲啥曲名
Nice, none can compare with Heifetz.
Ivor Silverman That’s debatable
No it isn’t.
Bayts pradayuy. Why?
Habla...
Culture of Making Butter.
If he lived.....he would now be leaving this dark world....remember the north Koreans......and the like.....
Come on violinists of today.....do it like Mike.....tute sute.....
The rest buy it at the store.
Similar to Cheese. Yest. Yest. A tak limon da? V limonad prevratilis.
Ponyali da? yeda? Da.
It's a pity that he died young. His teacher Ivan Galamian said he was better than Itzhak Perlman.
I do NOT believe account of his "accident!" Not for a second!!! There's something very fishy about it....very fishy!!!!
Mozarrlla maker made mozarella max.
Feta cheese vs Mozarella.
Voch sterile katov hotov and so on
Udavolstvoye.
Chem Armyanskoye maslo atlichayetsa at Yevropeyskova tak i ne ponyali
Pa vkusu nokogda ne skajesh, ne dadut. Bayts Dayarushka is out