Heifetz Transcriptions
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- Composer
- Jascha Heifetz
- Performers
- Su Yeon Lee, Michael Chertock
- Label
- Naxos Classics
- Barcode
- 9786310136486
Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987)Transcriptionsfor Violin and PianoJascha Heifetz was born in Vilnius in 1901, the son of a violinist,his first teacher from the age of three. Further lessons from Elias Malkinenabled him, by the age of six, to play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto andat the age of nine he was able to enter St Petersburg Conservatory, eventuallyto join the class of Leopold Auer. He made his international debut in Berlin in 1912, later in the same year appearing as soloist in Tchaikovsky's ViolinConcerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Nikisch. In 1917he left Russia for a concert tour in the United States, making his Americandebut at Carnegie Hall and his first commercial recordings, and eight yearslater became an American citizen. He made his first return to Russia in 1934 and for many years he continued an international career of great brillianceand distinction, earning a legendary reputation as a virtuoso, as well as forhis performances of chamber music with musicians of similar fame and calibre,such as the pianist Artur Rubinstein, the cellists Emanuel Feuermann and GregorPiatigorsky, and the viola-player William Primrose. In his later years he taughtat the University of South California in Los Angeles, where the Heifetz Chairof Music was established for him, giving master-classes, but with relativelyfew pupils. He gave his final recital and made hislast recordings in 1972. He died in 1987.As a player Heifetz did much to develop the techniquesof violin-pl
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