IN the middle 70's he came to Peru and gave a concert. He played this piece, the Rondo by Mozart, the March by Prokofiev, etc, and Ciaconna by Bach. Great and memorable concert. I was just a kid but still remember his performance.
+Plastic i want to say it's staccato, but if you would look closely, his left hand is performing a pizzicato. And if you would listen clearly, the notes played sounds distinctly percussive...
Everybody is talking about the left hand pizzicato section, but the section at 2:30 with the thirds, in runs that fast, and that intune, is one of the most stunning things to a violinist you could ever imagine. That is ridiculously hard.
351 people had to "break their fiddles across their knees". I've never seen anything like this from ANY violinist. Heifetz's skills are beyond belief. In fact this pretty much sums up how invincible he was at his prime. As Milstein said, "Nobody can play like that. I can't, nobody can. Forget about his recordings. What Heifetz does in live performance is just incredible."
Paganini actually didn't play it as well. He wrote it for a play, and this tune was meant to be a fast devilish style piece. He missed many of the notes as he played, but he said that it wasn't necessary to hit all the notes to bring out the full effect. Heifitz is the only one to ever play it perfectly at this speed.
Someone suggested selecting the RUclips .25x speed at 2:48 while he plays the glissandi slide with his 4th finger sliding up and some dark magic is behind hitting those notes like individual stops with a single bow stroke. I have listened to 5 different recordings of the Caprice including the digitally remastered recording of this piece with piano with Heifetz. Every other recording skips half the piece or takes the liberty to rush through parts to sound impressive but at the cost of losing control of the violin. Listening to the entire piece at .25x gives a special perspective how every high high harmonic is in tune on the first stop then he adds the vibrato. One thing I was surprised by is how often his bow will leave the strings on a down bow and when he brings it back on an upbow the tone is his always perfect and connected.
A. Hadelich described a technique of playing a slight undulation with the bow to make a glissed scale sound more defined. Heifetz likely used this. Perhaps he invented it.
I was just telling my husband tonight that there isn't another violinist out there that can capture what Heifetz did and the only way I could even consider this getting any better was to hear Paganini himself. I've heard so many versions of this where it sounds like an exercise, but no one - period - nailed the soul and musicality behind it like Heifetz. Hands down my favorite performance of this piece.
I know what it’s like to lose. To feel so desperately that you’re right, yet to fail nonetheless. As lightning turns the legs to jelly. I ask you to what end? Dread it, run from it, destiny arrives all the same. And now, it’s here. Or should I say, *I am.*
This has to be the single greatest performance of this piece other than perhaps by Paganini himself. I listened to Hillary Hahn, yo-yo ma and others attempt this piece but none of came close (granted, yo-yo ma did play this on a cello). This man is actually insane
^They're both some of the best modern violin performers tho I will have to disagree with you with who had the better recording. Hilary's performance was not as articulated (staccato's were not as clear) as Heifetz's even though her recording is with much better equipment. Imo, that's what makes Heifetz's performance of this caprice superior: the clean playing maintained at such an amazing tempo.
What's not to love? This man is frigging amazing! The absolute command and strength in the bowing arm, the precision of the fingerings, the intonation, the harmonics, the pizzicato...and he makes it look as easy as breathing.
All those countless hours of practice, playing until your fingers are stripped of flesh to the bone, being forced to restring your violin from the blood on your fingers, having your neck permanently crippled and deformed from holding your instrument there for hours, the mental anguish of hitting the wrong note or passage again and again and again until you feel like you're loosing your mind, forsaking food sleep and basic human contact for years all for the sake of art, and making this incredible piece look so goddamn easy...truly magnificent!
Andrew Wang I've been playing violin since I was three, and from overuse i have damaged my wrists and my neck from nerve damage, currently I am 14 and I have to get a surgery to fix damages in my arm, and my back is damaged. I have doctor's appointments every so often, but it's not technique. I went to Colburn, and now I am in New York for the Julliard Young Art's program -so you really can't say my technique is off. It's more of 6 1/2 hours of practice daily. It's not a hobby, it's my life. No time for friends outside out of violin. But it's worth it.
Fro Froyo I've played violin since I was 4, and I'm 23. I'm by no means a professional musician but I've had enough learning and teaching experience to know a problem when I see one. I would say that unless your very life depended on it, over 6 hours of practice a day is redundant at best and (in your case) physically damaging at worst. There is only so much your brain and muscle memory can absorb effectively per session. Player longevity is a consideration as well, and if you are already suffering injuries so bad that you have to see a doctor and are suffering nerve damage at the age of 14, then that is a serious problem you need to address if you want to still be playing by the time you hit 40. Heifetz could play into his 70s with few physical problems other than an attack by a deranged man on his arm late in his career. You might want to reconsider your regimen. Frankly, I'm shocked that your instructors didn't do anything to intervene. If you are doing this to yourself out of your own volition, then someone should have informed you of the consequences. If they are *making* you do this, then that's actually child abuse.
As it says in the description, the accompanist was called E. Bay... One of the best bargains ever. What a privilege to be able to accompany the great Jascha Heifetz. They must have really worked together for thousands of hours to achieve this level of performance.
Back in the early Sixties, when I was in my early teens, I adored Heifetz's recordings and listened to them over and over again: concertos by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, Mendelssohn and Sibelius, wonderful recordings of unaccompanied Bach.... Heifetz was my idol, and it is one of my regrets that I never heard him live, even though we both lived in Los Angeles: my parents packed me off to summer camp just when Heifetz was giving a series of performances at the Hollywood Bowl, and I still rather hold it against them. My father even had the nerve to say of Heifetz: "In many ways, he's a very unsatisfactory guy." If Heifetz didn't meet his standards, who on Earth could possibly have made the grade? But who knows? I'm seventy now, and maybe I'll get to hear him in Heaven....
I saw him perform in Carnegie Hall on his farewell tour, and there was an aura about him - you can see it here in his posture and the lack of extraneous movement - like he owned the stage and dared anyone to deny it. Who ever could?
True. Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on [this] Theme of Paganini" is at least equally amazing, particularly in the 18th Variation. Brahms's "Variations on [this] Theme of Paganini" is great, as well.
I wonder how absolutely crazy this would have sounded in real life as he was recording. This already sounds insane on a video of this quality, imagine if you were actually there
+Lukas Pelling Stradivaris are lush and colorful, Heifetz did not have a cushioned attack. Guarneris are perfect for him, though he used the Dolphin well.
One of the world's music treasures which shows all violin's technical abilities. Many composers were influenced by that piece and wrote their own compositions as variation on a theme and other music contributions.
In my opinion this is the best interpretation of this fantastique caprice (the most beautiful of all 24), Heifetz has got a PERFECT technique and his violin is such beautiful sounding. I think that Auer's arrangement is special, I can't imagine this caprice without that pizzicato at the end, the intonation is perfect. Maybe you've understood that Heifetz is my favourite violinist ever, and in my opinion nobody else will be better. Thanks for this musical treasure, I've listened to it about 500 times (I'm not joking) and I'll continue to consider this version the best one. Thanks Federico Giacoppo 🎻
It is Auer's arrangement: it has the same variations as Paganini wrote them, plus some variations written by Auer (Heifetz' teacher); anche then it is for violin and piano (Paganini originally wrote it for violin solo)
It's harmonics (instead of pressing down the string you only lightly touch it), doesn't require a lot of precision. The note will ring well even if the finger is not perfectly at the right spot. That jump itself is really not that hard to do with a bit of practice, and I'm sure this man did that a lot.
If you're not precise the harmonic won't sound clear doe Especially high , the higher the harmonic is the more precise you've to be for it to sound clear and full
Six years ago, I owed all fame to Heifetz, but today, I do think the piano plays a great role, to filing the blank and difficult turning, which all made this awesome work.
Heifetz plays this fiendishly difficult work with effortless perfection. He makes it sound divine, and I am dead certain that Paganini himself would have admired him as much or even more than any devout Heifetz fan would.
@Giggitee O'Yeah I get why you think these "muh Ling Ling" comments are annoying, but that's a quite vile thing to say, and I advise you refrain from doing so.
Bravo Maestro virtuoso! He totally nailed the essence of this number -Absolutely knocked it out of the park! Never heard such a crisp, clean and perfect rendition of this incredible piece.
U must cry as this is so wonderfull, it is something I can't tell, but to cry of this beautifull performace. I think Pagaini would smile and be happy as how Jascha performed it
To listen to classical music you need time, concentration, but also, most importantly, an artist who can show you the beauty of it. Just like he has done.
Itzhak Perlman said about Heifetz that he rose violin playing to a level we mortals (including Perlman) can only dream about. He also said that Heifetz is the best player ever....saying nothing about Paganini.....
Of course, but I am sure Perlman knows Paganini is considered the best ever....so saying Heifetz is the best ever is a pretty bold statement. Perlman said that Heifetz is the best ever. Heifetz sait that Grigoras Dinicu was the best he ever heard. The conclusion is that Dinicu was the best ever :) Just kidding, but this is very interesting.
***** paganini being considered the bet ever is a bit of a bold statement as well, in fact, quite a few violinists have been called the best ever, Locatelli, Paganini, Ernst, Lipiniski, Wieniawski, Ysaye just to name a few...
donesixfour I never said that Paganini was the best, in fact, how do you compare these violinistsI - I certainly can not judge , in fact, I've never heard the. Niccolò Paganini - ( born 1782 - died 1840 ) Pietro Antonio Locatelli - ( born 1695 - died 1764 ) Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst - ( born 1814 - died 1865 ) Karol Józef Lipinski - ( born 1790 - died 1861 ) Henryk Wieniawski - ( born 1835 - died 1880 ) Eugène Ysaÿe - ( born 1858 - died 1931 )
Al this stuff about standards just get better and better is nonense . Heifetz is probably the best violinist on recording . Things dont just get better and better . It is more about forgetting ego and learning from those who went before us (Heifetz idolised Kriesler ...another phenomenal player
He was my favorite violinist! He possessed perfect intonation and technique, and his interpretations were unparalleled, indeed. He was the consummate performing artist!
Jascha Heifetz as a child usually had his teachers to cry - due to how beautiful the experience was to see that little angel play like a masterful violinist at very young age. A prodigy.
I owned the VHS tape version of this performance and watched it hundreds of times, and Heifetz never seized to amaze me. I think watching this performance was one of the reasons I decided to give up being a musician. Part of me figured out pretty young that no matter what I did, I wasn't even going to come close what Heifetz could do, which was pretty close to perfection. Wish I could have been old enough to hear him play live.
+Charles Cheng It's sad to have such an idea of music. You shouldn't play to be better or as good as someone you admire, but because it pleases you to play ; there are millions of very valuable musicians that are maybe not as good as these masters but are still able to create wonders with their instrument, and it's how it should be... I know there is only one Heifetz, one Perlman, one Hahn and one Ma (I'm a cellist ^^), but there is not only one great violinist and even anyone that is either perfect or better than all the others
+Charles Cheng Same did Oscar Peterson when he first heard at young age Art Tatum's "Tiger Rag". He just cried and didn't play piano for two weeks. Then he started again and became one of the most well-know pianist in jazz. So, don't give up.
+jean de la croix I agree with you that the motivation for playing should be the internal pleasure, but playing is fundamentally different from becoming a professional musician, in which case you do have to be better than a lot of people in order for your professional value to be recognized. So maybe it's perfectly fine for someone not with superb talent to quit a musical career.
Yeah I understand but if you always look at people who are better than you (there are always such people), you'll never progress, in music you don't progress fighting against the others but for yourselve, or it's how it should be. Personnally, I study mathematics, and if I wanted to be the best of the class, I would have commited suicide by now. You can never be the best,but you don't have to
+jean de la croix I agree, but you should always be playing for a reason or for someone such as my reason being to become the best violinist in the world or at least I can be
16 years ago, just after RUclips started I began watching this video. 2 broken violins later I still get motivated by this video. I quit trying to play violin, now I just break fishing rods.
Maaz Zafar Probably, Paganini would compose pieces that were too difficult for even him, and master them, and he even used double stops with the G and E strings without hitting A and D
Listening to this makes me happy I've been around for a while. Had I been younger and less experienced in listening to music I might have not appreciated how beautifully he plays. Even in the most frenzied parts of the piece, every note is perfectly on time and exactly as distinct as it should be. Impressive.
Jascha Heifetz, no one superior at the strings of a violin. You don't have to hear the music, just watch his hands, and even a layman can clearly see no stumbles anywhere, no mistakes, nothing out of place, even if one is not a musician, let alone a violin player, one can see perfection, but if one is familiar with a violin concert, or composition, or one plays the violin at any level, and one is lucky to be watching and listening to Master Heifetz, one can detect and enjoy perfection immediately; one can see it and one can hear it. There is no mistake in judging correctly, and one knows then that Heifetz deserved to be considered one the greatest violinist of all times, if not the greatest ever! We lost him in 1987. A Russian gift for the ages.
Heifetz killed this one; Hahn's isn't even close. To be fair, given their ages when they performed the piece, Hillary cannot have the maturity nor the authority of Heifetz'. She does have wonderful intonation, but there's one thing working to her great advantage there: the reverb. A recording as dry as this one (Heifetz') is very revealing and unforgiving. The way he showcases every technique here is just flawless, explosive and over-the-top, and the way he shreds makes me think he wants to rip the strings by the song's end. It's as if he knows that someday, one million other guys will perform this same piece and just dares everyone, "Just try and top this..."
Paganini wasn't even 30 when he composed this, and given he could play it, this whole concept of maturity/authority just seems bullshit when Hahn played it at around the same age and Paganini composed/played it when he was, what? half the age Heifetz is here?
Nah bro.. I love both violinists but I don’t think maturity is it.. they both have unique aspects that make their performances one of a kind (personally I prefer Hahn but that’s only an opinion AHAHAHA)
There's something so arresting about classical music. I can never find it in me to click off videos in the same way I normally do, and so here you find me.
he misses a lot of notes, but i mean that’s just the human in him. anyone living under the pressure of being heifetz live is bound to fail, but he still comes out of top with his fire.
Unbelievable skill and such flawless music, no screeching, no slipping, nothing, just pure, beautiful music.
5:23 sounds like a damn load of scratchy sound to me lol
DarkValorWolf so you just literally replied to a 5 yo comment?
@@kihordanifuvarozokft you also replied under a 6 year old comment
Practice!
I'm replying to all of you. This whole rendering is the best out there.
perfect octaves, perfect double stops, perfect left hand pizz, perfect harmonics, and it's a walk in the park for Heifetz.
IN the middle 70's he came to Peru and gave a concert. He played this piece, the Rondo by Mozart, the March by Prokofiev, etc, and Ciaconna by Bach. Great and memorable concert. I was just a kid but still remember his performance.
mariocarnival That’s amazing you got to see him perform!
omfg that pizzicato....
I can barely pitz as it is...
+Brix Valle i dont think it has a pizzicato part
+Plastic huh? I'm quite sure 3:47 - 4:09 is a pizzicato..
+Brix Valle this is called stacato, pizzicato is when you play the strings with your finger like an harp
+Plastic i want to say it's staccato, but if you would look closely, his left hand is performing a pizzicato. And if you would listen clearly, the notes played sounds distinctly percussive...
When he started plucking I knew i was done for, give me 50 years and maybe
くろ Einzbern take it I'm in too
Sure, why don't you show us in a video how easy it is.
if u can play it slowly, u can play it quickly
People sayin the left hand pizzicato is the easy part in this piece have no idea lol
@@MerkinMuffly left hand pizz is like... fancy and pretty challenging but not like the hardest technique ever.
Everybody is talking about the left hand pizzicato section, but the section at 2:30 with the thirds, in runs that fast, and that intune, is one of the most stunning things to a violinist you could ever imagine. That is ridiculously hard.
tenths aswell
he did a bit of improv at the end of that variation as well
AGREED!
Glissing double stops is even harder than playing them on separate bows.
@@troy5094 Thats not improvised, it’s another alternate variation written by Heifetz’s teacher Leopold Auer.
to me it looks like Paganini wrote the caprices to torture his fellow violinists
@The Fortress Yeah like he's just flexing, like I can do this. Can you?
It was said he wrote pieces hard enough that he himself could not play it at a point. But of course, being the devil’s pawn, he mastered them.
I think Heifetz is devil’ s father.
Then Imagine how hard them classic pieces of piano music are. Even harder .
@@huskiehuskerson5300 depends what pieces. Paganini is definitely more difficult though.
The only reason Heifetz was allowed to get this good is because Paganini himself didn't renew his contract with the devil.
Adam Greenhaus aaahahahahahaahahahhahahahahahaha lol. really really funny
Pacts with the Devil are I believe traditionally a whole life-term (and beyond!) and strictly non-negotiable!
Adam Greenhaus huehuehue xD
well said!!!!!
Listen to Roman Kim or Ning Feng too, they're not as well advertised as Heifetz, Hilary, or Perlman, but I believe they deserve a listen to.
351 people had to "break their fiddles across their knees".
I've never seen anything like this from ANY violinist. Heifetz's skills are beyond belief. In fact this pretty much sums up how invincible he was at his prime. As Milstein said, "Nobody can play like that. I can't, nobody can. Forget about his recordings. What Heifetz does in live performance is just incredible."
Nice quote
There is one who could... Paganini himself.
I want a youtube video of Paganini playing this then...I suppose this is as good as it gets
Paganini actually didn't play it as well. He wrote it for a play, and this tune was meant to be a fast devilish style piece. He missed many of the notes as he played, but he said that it wasn't necessary to hit all the notes to bring out the full effect. Heifitz is the only one to ever play it perfectly at this speed.
We all knew that Paganini made a deal with the devil. No one knows what Paganini got but we all know the devil got some violin lessons
Someone suggested selecting the RUclips .25x speed at 2:48 while he plays the glissandi slide with his 4th finger sliding up and some dark magic is behind hitting those notes like individual stops with a single bow stroke. I have listened to 5 different recordings of the Caprice including the digitally remastered recording of this piece with piano with Heifetz. Every other recording skips half the piece or takes the liberty to rush through parts to sound impressive but at the cost of losing control of the violin. Listening to the entire piece at .25x gives a special perspective how every high high harmonic is in tune on the first stop then he adds the vibrato. One thing I was surprised by is how often his bow will leave the strings on a down bow and when he brings it back on an upbow the tone is his always perfect and connected.
One of the greatest ever
Played it at 0.25 speed and it sounded like a ritual music to summon the devil. Damn it Paganini!!!
Itzhak Perlman talking about Heifetz and explaining why he is the greatest m.ruclips.net/video/AFfmsKFywlo/видео.html
Can you believe that he played this piece as a 7 year old kid and it was just as wonderfull. On a 3 quarter violin.
A. Hadelich described a technique of playing a slight undulation with the bow to make a glissed scale sound more defined. Heifetz likely used this. Perhaps he invented it.
The only error you could ever accuse Jasha of is being too correct.
Chadwell you spelled Jascha wrong lol
@@kv8938 Well, he probably isn't no Heifetz ;)
Well not that theres a big problem but he isnt playing the original arrangement and ueses a different final variation i think
@Giggitee O'Yeah Salvatore Accardo was a beast!!
IMoonling Well it‘s not like his version is any easier than the original.
How are his fingers not on fire?
Amelia Bee He had played thousands of scales, so Paganini to him was not that different.
Are you an idiot ? Because this is black and white video so you cannot obviously see the fire !
+Uchiage Takashi woooowww ı laughed so haard
+ceylin kılınç Why would you have laughed?
Why do you care
I was just telling my husband tonight that there isn't another violinist out there that can capture what Heifetz did and the only way I could even consider this getting any better was to hear Paganini himself. I've heard so many versions of this where it sounds like an exercise, but no one - period - nailed the soul and musicality behind it like Heifetz. Hands down my favorite performance of this piece.
The best of the best violinist.
Paganini is ling lings spirit
L_ Maximus Ling Ling plays Paganini for his warmup
Nope, Leonid Kogan is the best.
The TwoSet invasion hasn’t yet reached the comments of this video... for now at least.
It already has
Our foes are about to arrive!
Prepare the defenses!
@@meyer-melvilleproductions7553 nah they're our friends
I know what it’s like to lose. To feel so desperately that you’re right, yet to fail nonetheless. As lightning turns the legs to jelly. I ask you to what end? Dread it, run from it, destiny arrives all the same. And now, it’s here. Or should I say,
*I am.*
SquaredPotentia Sacrigelious!
This has to be the single greatest performance of this piece other than perhaps by Paganini himself. I listened to Hillary Hahn, yo-yo ma and others attempt this piece but none of came close (granted, yo-yo ma did play this on a cello). This man is actually insane
Chretien li
I think Hilary’s performance was better
^They're both some of the best modern violin performers tho I will have to disagree with you with who had the better recording. Hilary's performance was not as articulated (staccato's were not as clear) as Heifetz's even though her recording is with much better equipment. Imo, that's what makes Heifetz's performance of this caprice superior: the clean playing maintained at such an amazing tempo.
I try version after version and keep coming back to this one. Heifetz has so much more detail and clarity. And emotion.
Take a look at this.
ruclips.net/video/6cfWJop0LZ0/видео.html
Chretien li the thing that is amazing about Paganini is that he came up with it before there was... anything like it at all.
I have more concern for the pianist, Mr. Emanuel Bay. He must have had third degree burns from sitting too close to that volcano named Heifetz.
What's not to love? This man is frigging amazing! The absolute command and strength in the bowing arm, the precision of the fingerings, the intonation, the harmonics, the pizzicato...and he makes it look as easy as breathing.
All those countless hours of practice, playing until your fingers are stripped of flesh to the bone, being forced to restring your violin from the blood on your fingers, having your neck permanently crippled and deformed from holding your instrument there for hours, the mental anguish of hitting the wrong note or passage again and again and again until you feel like you're loosing your mind, forsaking food sleep and basic human contact for years all for the sake of art, and making this incredible piece look so goddamn easy...truly magnificent!
I think that's a bit of an overstatement lol though I agree it takes an insane amount of work
if you are causing physical injury to yourself while playing the violin, then your technique needs improving.
Andrew Wang I've been playing violin since I was three, and from overuse i have damaged my wrists and my neck from nerve damage, currently I am 14 and I have to get a surgery to fix damages in my arm, and my back is damaged. I have doctor's appointments every so often, but it's not technique. I went to Colburn, and now I am in New York for the Julliard Young Art's program -so you really can't say my technique is off. It's more of 6 1/2 hours of practice daily. It's not a hobby, it's my life. No time for friends outside out of violin.
But it's worth it.
Fro Froyo I've played violin since I was 4, and I'm 23. I'm by no means a professional musician but I've had enough learning and teaching experience to know a problem when I see one. I would say that unless your very life depended on it, over 6 hours of practice a day is redundant at best and (in your case) physically damaging at worst. There is only so much your brain and muscle memory can absorb effectively per session. Player longevity is a consideration as well, and if you are already suffering injuries so bad that you have to see a doctor and are suffering nerve damage at the age of 14, then that is a serious problem you need to address if you want to still be playing by the time you hit 40. Heifetz could play into his 70s with few physical problems other than an attack by a deranged man on his arm late in his career. You might want to reconsider your regimen.
Frankly, I'm shocked that your instructors didn't do anything to intervene. If you are doing this to yourself out of your own volition, then someone should have informed you of the consequences. If they are *making* you do this, then that's actually child abuse.
Andrew Wang I thought I had read Heifetz was in a mild car accident and had hurt his arm - cannot remember which arm.
As it says in the description, the accompanist was called E. Bay... One of the best bargains ever. What a privilege to be able to accompany the great Jascha Heifetz. They must have really worked together for thousands of hours to achieve this level of performance.
Back in the early Sixties, when I was in my early teens, I adored Heifetz's recordings and listened to them over and over again: concertos by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, Mendelssohn and Sibelius, wonderful recordings of unaccompanied Bach.... Heifetz was my idol, and it is one of my regrets that I never heard him live, even though we both lived in Los Angeles: my parents packed me off to summer camp just when Heifetz was giving a series of performances at the Hollywood Bowl, and I still rather hold it against them. My father even had the nerve to say of Heifetz: "In many ways, he's a very unsatisfactory guy." If Heifetz didn't meet his standards, who on Earth could possibly have made the grade? But who knows? I'm seventy now, and maybe I'll get to hear him in Heaven....
Maybe your father regarded himself as supreme therefore everyone was inferior.
I saw him perform in Carnegie Hall on his farewell tour, and there was an aura about him - you can see it here in his posture and the lack of extraneous movement - like he owned the stage and dared anyone to deny it. Who ever could?
From all versions of Paganini Caprice No. 24 that I've herad, this is still my favorite!
What an amazing piece of music.
True. Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on [this] Theme of Paganini" is at least equally amazing, particularly in the 18th Variation. Brahms's "Variations on [this] Theme of Paganini" is great, as well.
Thx for sharing the bit about Rachmaninoff. I'm going to look it up!
Over 200 people didn't like this performance? Was it too perfect for their liking?
lmao. That reply was also perfect.
Who knows. Those who vote "dislike" to a video like this are the You Tube version of graffiti spray painters.
perfection is a too big piece to swallow for average people
Maybe antisemites?
SarahOstrin1 Jealousy
I wonder how absolutely crazy this would have sounded in real life as he was recording. This already sounds insane on a video of this quality, imagine if you were actually there
Can we appreciate how much this man loved Paganini to upload this like right when RUclips released
Ikr?
Yess
Give this man a Stradivari.
+Lukas Pelling Lol XD
+Lukas Pelling Hahaha
+Lukas Pelling Stradivaris are lush and colorful, Heifetz did not have a cushioned attack. Guarneris are perfect for him, though he used the Dolphin well.
+Lukas Pelling Not a bad idea? a bit belated though.
His violin was better than a Strad.
If this was in color: we'd see the bow hair flying apart
Umar Awan Not possible. His violin is soaked in water first so it doesn't burst in to flames from his playing!
Well, the quality would just have to be better
Umm guys you know its a joke right?
@@velporas they're joking.
ilukano song
One of the world's music treasures which shows all violin's technical abilities.
Many composers were influenced by that piece and wrote their own compositions as variation on a theme and other music contributions.
I just threw my violin out of the window. :O
Poor 🎻
Lmao nice one!
*switch to viola*
jajajjaj
Dang that's expensive y'know 😂😂
Semplicemente fantastico, la migliore esecuzione che abbia mai sentito.
In my opinion this is the best interpretation of this fantastique caprice (the most beautiful of all 24), Heifetz has got a PERFECT technique and his violin is such beautiful sounding. I think that Auer's arrangement is special, I can't imagine this caprice without that pizzicato at the end, the intonation is perfect. Maybe you've understood that Heifetz is my favourite violinist ever, and in my opinion nobody else will be better.
Thanks for this musical treasure, I've listened to it about 500 times (I'm not joking) and I'll continue to consider this version the best one.
Thanks
Federico Giacoppo 🎻
Somebody explain me, why this Caprice 24 version is DIFFERENT of the others??? Perlman, Accardo???
It is Auer's arrangement: it has the same variations as Paganini wrote them, plus some variations written by Auer (Heifetz' teacher); anche then it is for violin and piano (Paganini originally wrote it for violin solo)
That jump at 2:54 never fails to amaze me.
Yes.....that is insane!!
It doesn’t make sense how precise this is
It's harmonics (instead of pressing down the string you only lightly touch it), doesn't require a lot of precision. The note will ring well even if the finger is not perfectly at the right spot. That jump itself is really not that hard to do with a bit of practice, and I'm sure this man did that a lot.
Bigyeti Technologies listen to it at .25 speed!
If you're not precise the harmonic won't sound clear doe
Especially high , the higher the harmonic is the more precise you've to be for it to sound clear and full
Six years ago, I owed all fame to Heifetz, but today, I do think the piano plays a great role, to filing the blank and difficult turning, which all made this awesome work.
everty time i hear someone play the paganini number 24 i come back and hear heifetzs , imcomparable , this man is with no doubt the best!
Heifetz plays this fiendishly difficult work with effortless perfection. He makes it sound divine, and I am dead certain that Paganini himself would have admired him as much or even more than any devout Heifetz fan would.
Oh, look--it's footage of Ling Ling's father.
50 hours a day here.
Alice Shieh yeah
Maren Savino walks out of performance practicing
@Giggitee O'Yeah I get why you think these "muh Ling Ling" comments are annoying, but that's a quite vile thing to say, and I advise you refrain from doing so.
Alice Shieh stfu
That outro was unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed. A unique performance of a classic. Bravo!
This is the best masterpiece ever! whenever i feel depressed, it can cheer me up! Love Heifetz!
Around 3:48...that is insane...
Stephen Chumley
I have always wanted to do that
One of the most beautiful things I have ever heard.
By far the best interpretation of Paganini I've ever heard.Absolutely amazing!
Bravo Maestro virtuoso! He totally nailed the essence of this number -Absolutely knocked it out of the park! Never heard such a crisp, clean and perfect rendition of this incredible piece.
U must cry as this is so wonderfull, it is something I can't tell, but to cry of this beautifull performace. I think Pagaini would smile and be happy as how Jascha performed it
To listen to classical music you need time, concentration, but also, most importantly, an artist who can show you the beauty of it. Just like he has done.
In my opinion, as a violinist, Jascha Heifetz is truly amazing! His amazing talent and skill definitely shows how amazing he is/was.
A treasure! Legend of heaven, A. Commenter. Thank you for posting. (from Australia)
Itzhak Perlman said about Heifetz that he rose violin playing to a level we mortals (including Perlman) can only dream about. He also said that Heifetz is the best player ever....saying nothing about Paganini.....
Perhaps ……. Perlman not ever heard Paganini play the violin…….Nicolò Paganini was born in 1782 and died in 1840
Of course, but I am sure Perlman knows Paganini is considered the best ever....so saying Heifetz is the best ever is a pretty bold statement.
Perlman said that Heifetz is the best ever. Heifetz sait that Grigoras Dinicu was the best he ever heard. The conclusion is that Dinicu was the best ever :) Just kidding, but this is very interesting.
***** paganini being considered the bet ever is a bit of a bold statement as well, in fact, quite a few violinists have been called the best ever, Locatelli, Paganini, Ernst, Lipiniski, Wieniawski, Ysaye just to name a few...
donesixfour I never said that Paganini was the best, in fact, how do you compare these violinistsI - I certainly can not judge , in fact, I've never heard the.
Niccolò Paganini - ( born 1782 - died 1840 )
Pietro Antonio Locatelli - ( born 1695 - died 1764 )
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst - ( born 1814 - died 1865 )
Karol Józef Lipinski - ( born 1790 - died 1861 )
Henryk Wieniawski - ( born 1835 - died 1880 )
Eugène Ysaÿe - ( born 1858 - died 1931 )
Writing =\= playing
The harmonics at 4:11 have me in tears… no wait, this whole recording does
Hands down one of my favorite soloists 👏👏👏
incredible. I used to listen to these old god-tier recordings but forgot about them when youtube changed the algorithm. So glad I saw it again today.
The pull offs that start at 3:45 are too much for my brain to comprehend
thriftdig that’s probs the easiest variation tho xD don’t fancy those tenths o_O
More than a pull off, it was pizzicato, he was plucking the strings with his left hand.
@@kaijiesoo8588 fuck tenths
Kai Jie Soo that’s.. far from the easiest variation lol. Easiest variation would have to be the 2nd.
what a masterpiece played very well
I'm a big fan Mr Paganini, please come to Mauritius on your next tour!
un grande violinista! un incredibile talento! paganini 2.....
Hello,
Thank you very much for this beautiful concert !
Best wishes !
Jean-Charles Bourquin, in France
By far the best performance of this piece I have seen
Al this stuff about standards just get better and better is nonense . Heifetz is probably the best violinist on recording .
Things dont just get better and better . It is more about forgetting ego and learning from those who went before us (Heifetz idolised Kriesler ...another phenomenal player
I do agree that only defect of his performance is just so perfect.
Jascha Heifetz was my Dad's favorite violinist. I grew listening to Heifetz's violin, the most distinctive sounding violin I've ever heard
Oh my god... This is so beautiful that even hurts our souls!
Jascha Heifetz plays *Paganini Caprice № 24*
Excellent Thank you
Hello Olga, you have quite a unique smile that cut thru my heart☺️ If I may ask, is this your favorite concerto?
Saw this a few years ago. Still blows my mind
He was my favorite violinist! He possessed perfect intonation and technique, and his interpretations were unparalleled, indeed. He was the consummate performing artist!
This is best of all versions on RUclips
Paganini created Heavy Metal and guitar solos.
get out now
The noob is real in this one.
Vincent Fang which one? :)
Dr Godinho exactly im confused
Dr Godinho, who I doubt really has a doctorate in anything.
Amazing when Heifeiz plays paganini it sounds like a river
yes
Jascha Heifetz as a child usually had his teachers to cry - due to how beautiful the experience was to see that little angel play like a masterful violinist at very young age. A prodigy.
Who is watching it in 2017 and think: "Men this is insane! Even now!" :D
2019 🤠
It’s 2020 now. Still by far the best Pag 24 I’ve seen
I owned the VHS tape version of this performance and watched it hundreds of times, and Heifetz never seized to amaze me. I think watching this performance was one of the reasons I decided to give up being a musician. Part of me figured out pretty young that no matter what I did, I wasn't even going to come close what Heifetz could do, which was pretty close to perfection.
Wish I could have been old enough to hear him play live.
+Charles Cheng It's sad to have such an idea of music. You shouldn't play to be better or as good as someone you admire, but because it pleases you to play ; there are millions of very valuable musicians that are maybe not as good as these masters but are still able to create wonders with their instrument, and it's how it should be... I know there is only one Heifetz, one Perlman, one Hahn and one Ma (I'm a cellist ^^), but there is not only one great violinist and even anyone that is either perfect or better than all the others
+Charles Cheng Same did Oscar Peterson when he first heard at young age Art Tatum's "Tiger Rag". He just cried and didn't play piano for two weeks. Then he started again and became one of the most well-know pianist in jazz. So, don't give up.
+jean de la croix I agree with you that the motivation for playing should be the internal pleasure, but playing is fundamentally different from becoming a professional musician, in which case you do have to be better than a lot of people in order for your professional value to be recognized. So maybe it's perfectly fine for someone not with superb talent to quit a musical career.
Yeah I understand but if you always look at people who are better than you (there are always such people), you'll never progress, in music you don't progress fighting against the others but for yourselve, or it's how it should be. Personnally, I study mathematics, and if I wanted to be the best of the class, I would have commited suicide by now. You can never be the best,but you don't have to
+jean de la croix I agree, but you should always be playing for a reason or for someone such as my reason being to become the best violinist in the world or at least I can be
You are listening to the greatest violinist ever!!!!!!!!
That title belongs to Paganini himself. Heifetz and Kavakos share second place 😊
16 years ago, just after RUclips started I began watching this video. 2 broken violins later I still get motivated by this video. I quit trying to play violin, now I just break fishing rods.
Every time I look at my like button and see if I had liked or not
I wish that I could've liked more 😅😅
Un virtuoso histórico. Talento y técnica incomparable. Imposible de repetirse.
I have never seen more elegant and graceful movement
He is just perfect!!!
And the only~ I love his quality and perfection ~
Makes you wonder if Paganini himself could do better.
Maaz Zafar Probably, Paganini would compose pieces that were too difficult for even him, and master them, and he even used double stops with the G and E strings without hitting A and D
impossible
voilaviolamh No clue honestly
But i have his biography and it makes a point about that
KingDragonCat no.... like it's physically impossible lol
My best Jascha paganini
Uf !!!! En vivo! Y todavía se da el lujo de arreglar y agregar más variaciones al final...
Listening to this makes me happy I've been around for a while. Had I been younger and less experienced in listening to music I might have not appreciated how beautifully he plays. Even in the most frenzied parts of the piece, every note is perfectly on time and exactly as distinct as it should be. Impressive.
He played the piece like it’s so easy for him, and it probably was. Wow. 😍
I do this every morning! ;-)
Гениальный скрипач! Можно слушать без конца.....Огромное спасибо San Lee
Jascha Heifetz, no one superior at the strings of a violin. You don't have to hear the music, just watch his hands, and even a layman can clearly see no stumbles anywhere, no mistakes, nothing out of place, even if one is not a musician, let alone a violin player, one can see perfection, but if one is familiar with a violin concert, or composition, or one plays the violin at any level, and one is lucky to be watching and listening to Master Heifetz, one can detect and enjoy perfection immediately; one can see it and one can hear it. There is no mistake in judging correctly, and one knows then that Heifetz deserved to be considered one the greatest violinist of all times, if not the greatest ever! We lost him in 1987. A Russian gift for the ages.
eargasm :*
No, :*...
Heifetz killed this one; Hahn's isn't even close. To be fair, given their ages when they performed the piece, Hillary cannot have the maturity nor the authority of Heifetz'. She does have wonderful intonation, but there's one thing working to her great advantage there: the reverb. A recording as dry as this one (Heifetz') is very revealing and unforgiving. The way he showcases every technique here is just flawless, explosive and over-the-top, and the way he shreds makes me think he wants to rip the strings by the song's end. It's as if he knows that someday, one million other guys will perform this same piece and just dares everyone, "Just try and top this..."
Paganini wasn't even 30 when he composed this, and given he could play it, this whole concept of maturity/authority just seems bullshit when Hahn played it at around the same age and Paganini composed/played it when he was, what? half the age Heifetz is here?
heifetz’s paganini 24 sound much better that hahn’s for sure. but heifetz can’t play while hula-hooping :v
Nah bro.. I love both violinists but I don’t think maturity is it.. they both have unique aspects that make their performances one of a kind (personally I prefer Hahn but that’s only an opinion AHAHAHA)
how can somebody dare to unlike this?
Beause of the noise recording avoiding us to hear this masterpiece
thats not a valid excuse
Those harmonics are absolutely beautiful !!! Amazing!
Beautiful playing like this surely wins the shiny fiddle of gold
色々な人の24番聞いたけど、彼が一番だ。彼を超える人はいない。
同意する！
@Kup Kişi おてめお母さん 好き だ な?
それ
Это великолепно, прекрасно и невозможно. Преклоняюсь!
Not a day goes by without coming back to this video. Genius! 😶
favorite violin recording on youtube by far
I´m gonna need another 20 years of practice for that o.O
+Erik Schreiter haha 300 years are not enough to reach perfection like he does
+Erik Schreiter He said himself with enough focus and determination you can be like him in a few months lol
Make that 200 lol
Get a guitar you'll only need around 3-4
Pvviolinist maybe if you practice 12hours day and already play violin and have talent.
Insane. No other word for this virtuoso
No living creature can play Paganini's Caprice 24 like this..This is Greatness.
the only version i will ever like: Jascha Heifetz' version of this piece
Hilary Hahn's was very nice as well though.
Anonymous Secret you giys just gonna ignore David Garrett?
@@ilyakarakotov4065 yea
There's something so arresting about classical music. I can never find it in me to click off videos in the same way I normally do, and so here you find me.
Потрясающе виртуозно!!!Качество звука необыкновенное!!!Брависмимо!!!👋👋👋👋👋✨🌿✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨🌿🌎🕊️🌎🕊️🌎🕊️
Not a single note out of tune. Intonation that is unparalleled.
Michael A. Tavera they say if you slowed down the videos of him playing you could see him adjust in a moments notice.
He misses notes too LMAO, you must not have a very good ear my friend
he misses a lot of notes, but i mean that’s just the human in him. anyone living under the pressure of being heifetz live is bound to fail, but he still comes out of top with his fire.
@@billhassell434 where?
@@jzgamer3284 seriously, your ear is THAT bad? I'm sorry