Ricci once said that he never got nervous on stage. It was about him (when he was 12 years old) that a New York critic said that "everything that the great violinists do, he did."
Hi Eric, I agree. Hey, you and I were at Juilliard together, and I also knew your dad! I'm Lee Bracegirdle the french horn player, composer and conductor, this is my channel and I'm playing 1st horn on in all the recordings here. Send me an email lb@leebracegirdle.net -Cheers.
Violinist Fritz Kreisler visited Dvorak shortly before he passed and asked if there was anything Dvorak was working on that should be saved. Dvorak replied, "Maybe something; look in that trunk over there." Kreisler looked and found some music in Dvorak's trunk that I'm sure you're all familiar with now. Can you imagine what gems of music we may have had that was lost in some old trunk of a master composer that never saw the light of day?
Hi, I'm glad you like it - I'm playing in the orchestra on this video. Unfortunately it's not commercially available because it was a one-off live broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting corporation. But you can watch it here anytime.
@@maestro15552 Actually, I found that Bein & Fushi once sold it, as well as Shar music, but they haven't stocked it for many years. @ the beginning of another video copy I saw, the programme was called "World of Music"
It's much better than the bobbing heads and contorted faces that we see today, doing St. Vitus' dance as they lurch around the stage, in my humble opinion.
I stuck it out until the end of the first movement, but so doing took some will power. Ricci is all over the place and really bad.. He was 62. I don't know whether it was just an off night.
And that’s something that everybody should really understand. Just because you are on stage does not mean you are equal to the greats. There are so many “celebrities” on the violin these days that I cannot stand to listen to. Think Benedetti, Ray Chen, Sarah Chang, Anne-Akiko Meyers, etc… They have all the technical skills, but not the sound. They don’t have that rich, textured, warm sound that we know so well from violinists like Heifetz, Menuhin, Perlman, or Joshua Bell, to name a few. Their sound is instead cold, hollow, and they have a penchant to bang on their instruments as though that will make them sound more pleasant. I think Ricci is an excellent violinist, and a very skilled one at that, but his recordings vary. Sometimes he has the sound, sometimes not. In this case, I think he has a nice sound, but you are right, I hear lots of wrong notes and the playing is just a bit clumsy.
A minor point - He was playing a Lorenzo Storioni - one of two he bought to Australia for this tour.
Ricci once said that he never got nervous on stage. It was about him (when he was 12 years old) that a New York critic said that "everything that the great violinists do, he did."
Ricci was a giant violinist and a very good person. Eric Shumsky
Hi Eric, I agree. Hey, you and I were at Juilliard together, and I also knew your dad! I'm Lee Bracegirdle the french horn player, composer and conductor, this is my channel and I'm playing 1st horn on in all the recordings here. Send me an email lb@leebracegirdle.net -Cheers.
Violinist Fritz Kreisler visited Dvorak shortly before he passed and asked if there was anything Dvorak was working on that should be saved. Dvorak replied, "Maybe something; look in that trunk over there." Kreisler looked and found some music in Dvorak's trunk that I'm sure you're all familiar with now. Can you imagine what gems of music we may have had that was lost in some old trunk of a master composer that never saw the light of day?
Great!!!!!
Ruggiero Ricci, uno dei grandi e, per giunta, con un repertorio sconfinato .
19:49 G string tone…wow😲 his Huberman Del gesu has a tonally great g string!
I wanted to buy a copy of this video, but have no idea whether anyone still sells it.
Hi, I'm glad you like it - I'm playing in the orchestra on this video. Unfortunately it's not commercially available because it was a one-off live broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting corporation. But you can watch it here anytime.
maestro15552
Beautiful! Thank you
@@maestro15552 Actually, I found that Bein & Fushi once sold it, as well as Shar music, but they haven't stocked it for many years. @ the beginning of another video copy I saw, the programme was called "World of Music"
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14:45
From 27:09: Guarneri G-string in full cry. Ricci's playing can be taken as read, but the 'ex-Gibson' here is absolutely phenomenal...
Heifetz snd Ricci never shows any emotions on face.
It's much better than the bobbing heads and contorted faces that we see today, doing St. Vitus' dance as they lurch around the stage, in my humble opinion.
Two of the most recorded fiddlers...along with Louis Kaufman and Steven Staryk.
...because all of the emotion is saved for the music. And such great music making! We will never see, or hear, their like again.
@@violinhunter2 And no fiddler should not have Staryk's 'Every Violinist's Guide' on their record/CD shelves...
I stuck it out until the end of the first movement, but so doing took some will power. Ricci is all over the place and really bad..
He was 62. I don't know whether it was just an off night.
He was good for then ...not now.....now days he should just be a second violinest....
And that’s something that everybody should really understand. Just because you are on stage does not mean you are equal to the greats. There are so many “celebrities” on the violin these days that I cannot stand to listen to. Think Benedetti, Ray Chen, Sarah Chang, Anne-Akiko Meyers, etc… They have all the technical skills, but not the sound. They don’t have that rich, textured, warm sound that we know so well from violinists like Heifetz, Menuhin, Perlman, or Joshua Bell, to name a few. Their sound is instead cold, hollow, and they have a penchant to bang on their instruments as though that will make them sound more pleasant. I think Ricci is an excellent violinist, and a very skilled one at that, but his recordings vary. Sometimes he has the sound, sometimes not. In this case, I think he has a nice sound, but you are right, I hear lots of wrong notes and the playing is just a bit clumsy.