# Title: Bruch: Concerto for violin in Gm; Scottish Fantasy # Orchestra: New Symphony Orchestra of London # Conductor: Malcolm Sargent # Composer: Max Bruch, Henri Vieuxtemps # Number of Discs: 1 # Label: RCA # Format: MP3, VBR V0 Avg. 226 Kbps
# Tracklist:
1. Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26 in G Minor: Vorspiel: Allegro moderato Jascha Heifetz;Sir Malcolm Sargent 7:39
2. Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26 in G Minor: Adagio Jascha Heifetz;Sir Malcolm Sargent 7:49
3. Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26 in G Minor: Finale: Allegro energico Jascha Heifetz;Sir Malcolm Sargent 6:27
4. Scottish Fantasy Op. 46: Introduction: Grave; Adagio cantabile Jascha Heifetz 7:44
5. Scottish Fantasy Op. 46: Allegro Jascha Heifetz;Sir Malcolm Sargent 4:34
6. Scottish Fantasy Op. 46: Adagio; Andante sostenuto Jascha Heifetz;Sir Malcolm Sargent 6:34
7. Scottish Fantasy Op. 46: Finale: Allegro guerriero Jascha Heifetz;Sir Malcolm Sargent 6:40
8. Violin Concerto No. 5, Op. 37 in A Minor: Allegro non troppo Jascha Heifetz;Sir Malcolm Sargent 12:31
9. Violin Concerto No. 5, Op. 37 in A Minor: Adagio Jascha Heifetz;Sir Malcolm Sargent 3:36
10. Violin Concerto No. 5, Op. 37 in A Minor: Allegro con fuoco Jascha Heifetz;Sir Malcolm Sargent 1:04
Jascha Heifetz (English pronunciation: /ˈhaɪfɪts/, February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1901 – December 10, 1987) was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.
Early life
Heifetz was born into a Jewish family in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. The record confirming his birth on January 20, 1901 (full archival citation - LVIA/728/4/77) is held at the Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA). A copy of the record is held on microfilm at the LDS in Salt Lake City (No 2205068, image number - 795). The record states the family was registered in Polotsk. His father, Reuven Heifetz, son of Elie, was a local violin teacher and served as the concertmaster of the Vilnius Theatre Orchestra for one season before the theatre closed down. Jascha took up the violin when he was three years old and his father was his first teacher. At five he started lessons with Ilya D. Malkin, a former pupil of Leopold Auer. He was a child prodigy, making his public debut at seven, in Kovno (now Kaunas, Lithuania) playing the Violin Concerto in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn. In 1910 he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory to study under Leopold Auer himself.
He played in Germany and Scandinavia, and met Fritz Kreisler for the first time in a Berlin private house together with other noted violinists in attendance. Kreisler, after accompanying the 12-year-old Heifetz at the piano in a performance of the Mendelssohn concerto, said to all present, "We may as well break our fiddles across our knees." Heifetz visited much of Europe while still in his teens. In April 1911, Heifetz performed in an outdoor concert in St. Petersburg before 25,000 spectators; there was such a sensational reaction that police officers needed to protect the young violinist after the concert. In 1914, Heifetz performed with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Arthur Nikisch. The conductor was very impressed, saying he had never heard such an excellent violinist.
Career
Heifetz and his family left Russia in 1917, traveling by rail to the Russian far east and thence by ship to the United States, arriving in San Francisco.
On October 27, 1917, Heifetz played for the first time in the United States, at Carnegie Hall in New York, and became an immediate sensation.[5] Fellow violinist Mischa Elman in the audience asked "Do you think it's hot in here?", whereupon Leopold Godowsky, in the next seat, imperturbably replied, "Not for pianists."[6] The reviews by the New York critics were rapturous.
In 1917, Heifetz was elected as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national fraternity for men in music, by the fraternity's Alpha chapter at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. As he was aged 16 at the time, he was perhaps the youngest person ever elected to membership in the organization. Heifetz remained in the country and became an American citizen in 1925. When he told admirer Groucho Marx he had been earning his living as a musician since the age of seven, Groucho answered, "And I suppose before that you were just a bum."
