Heifitz & Piatigorsky: Historic Performance Film F

1 DVD - Label: Kultur - D1101 - - - Violin: Jascha Heifetz - Cello: Gregor Piatigorsky

Jascha Heifetz Rare footage of the incomparable violinist at the height of his career. The program begins with a portrait of the artist. It takes us into the home of the virtuoso where we view his practice techniques and her Heifetz playing Chaconne (Vitali) Prelude in E-Major (Bach), Girl With the Flaxen Hair (Debussy), Scherzo Tarantella (Wieniawsky), Twenty-Fourth Caprice (Paganini) In the next segment, Heifetz and his accompanist Emanuel Bay give an impromptu recital at Pomona College. The varied program includes Sweet Remembrance (Mendelssohn), Sonatensatz (Brahms), Hungarian Dance No. 7 (Brahms), Melodie (Gluck), March from Love for Three Oranges (Prokofiev), Polonaise (Wienawsky), Hora Staccato (Dinicu-Heifetz) Gregor Piatigorsky One of the greatest cellists of all time in a brilliant presentation of: Bourees #1 and #2 from C-Major Suite (Bach), Slow Movement from Cello Sonata (Chopin), Masques from Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev), Romance (Anton Rubinstein), Waltz (Tchaikovsky) , Introduction, Theme and Variations (Schubert-Piatigorsky).

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