Jascha Heifetz - Favourite Recital & Encore Pieces (USA-import)
Violin legend Jascha Heifetz “represented a potent manifestation of musical integrity combined with tonal and intonational purity, technical discipline, virtuosity and intellectual honesty,” declared Gramophone in a 1994 assessment of his achievement, “whether in unaccompanied Bach… or in the countless miniatures that he infused with a wealth of wit and feeling.” Now Sony Classical has compiled a special 5-CD box of Heifetz playing his “Favourite Encore and Recital Pieces”. It includes sonatas by Beethoven (the “Kreutzer”), Franck, Saint-Saëns and Richard Strauss, as well as Schubert’s C major Fantasy and movements from Bach’s E major Partita and his D minor Chaconne – plus the great violinist’s own captivating transcriptions of miniatures: selections from Porgy and Bess, Carnival of the Animals and pieces by Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, Falla and Walton.
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