All Jascha Heifetz articles – Page 2

  • HeifetzDebussy11
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    Violinist Jascha Heifetz performs Debussy's The Girl with the Flaxen Hair

    2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Jascha Heifetz performs an arrangement for violin of Debussy's The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin) from the composer's Preludes Book I accompanied by Emanuel Bay. Read: Studying the violin with Jascha Heifetz Read: Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milsetin - two titanic ...

  • HeifetzImpression1
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    Violinist Jascha Heifetz imitates bad playing

    2015-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Jascha Heifezt gives a wincingly accurate impression of a bad performance he once heard of Vieuxtemps' Fourth Violin Concerto - proving not only his gifts as a performer, but also as a sharply observant comic. Read former Heifetz pupil Sherry Kloss's article: Studying the violin with ...

  • HeifetzStaccato1
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    Violinist Jascha Heifetz performs Hora Staccato

    2015-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Jascha Heifetz demonstrates impeccable bow control in up- and down-bow staccato in his arrangement of Dinicu's Hora Staccato. Read The Strad's 6 ways to improve your staccato.  

  • PerlmanHeifetz1
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    Violinist Itzhak Perlman's first encounter with Jascha Heifetz

    2015-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Your Symphonie Espagnole is very nice, but I would like to hear some scales...' Violinist Itzhak Perlman remembers his first meeting with the great Jascha Heifetz when he played to him as a 14-year-old student at the Juilliard School in New York. Watch Jascha Heifetz put students ...

  • HeifetzTeacher
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    Violinist Eugene Fodor on studying with Jascha Heifetz

    2015-04-09T00:00:00Z

    American-born Fodor counted among his teachers not only Heifetz, but also Ivan Galamian and Josef Gingold

  • Heifetz_Vid
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    Violinist Jascha Heifetz performs Mozart aged eleven

    2015-02-03T00:00:00Z

    Legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz performs Mozart's Gavotte in G from Idomeneo, transcribed by Leopold Auer, aged just eleven. The performance was recorded on wax cylinder in 1912. Read The Strad's first mention of the young Heifetz, published in October 1912. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...

  • HeifetzTchaik1
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    Jascha Heifetz performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto

    2015-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz makes short work of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto first movement. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.

  • HeifetzTeacher
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    Jascha Heifetz gives violin masterclass

    2014-08-17T00:00:00Z

    You're playing it too safe. Let's do it more dangerous' Violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz gives a masterclass for students at the University of Southern California. First up to perform is Varoujan Kodjian in Wieniawski's Polonaise Brillante no.2. Read Sherry Kloss's account on what it was like to ...

  • Heifetz_Paganini
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    Jascha Heifetz performs Paganini's Caprice no.24

    2014-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Jascha Heifetz performs Paganini's Caprice no.24, including the famous left-hand pizzicato passage - read more about the technique in The Strad's 7 pointers for perfect pizzicato.  

  • Heifetz_Blog
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    Jascha Heifetz and Nathan Milstein – two titanic violinists who still divide opinion today

    2014-01-15T00:00:00Z

    Tully Potter compares the recorded legacy of the two renowned performers

  • Jascha heifetz
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    Jascha Heifetz

    Considered by many to be the finest violinist of all time, Jascha Heifetz had a long and successful performing and recording career beginning in Vilnius, Russian Empire (now Lithuania), where he was born. Initially taught by his father, a local violin teacher, he went on to study ...