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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Jascha Heifetz, David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Horowitz, Mstislav Rostropovich, Pierre Boulez and Valery Gergiev have changed my buying and listening patterns. Earlier while buying music through Amazon, I used to type the composers name in the search box to look for good recordings. Good recordings based on popularity, reviews, price, year of recording, label. Currently I search for music performed by a particular musician, conductor or an orchestra. And when I find a musician or a conductor whom I really like, I look for box sets of their recordings.
A box set is like a buffet, and a single CD is like dining a-la-carte. A perfectionist may prefer a-la-carte, but budget constraints and the desire for MORE, nudges us in the direction of the overladen buffet. The EMI box sets of Oistrakh, Richter and Rostropovich are overladen buffets. There is a certain amount of duplication. Perhaps a minor compromise with sound quality. But on the whole, they are a scintillating feast of great music by the Russian troika.
This Jascha Heifetz set is amazing. Sound quality on all the 6 CD's is very good considering the age of the recordings. And the music is like a sensuous river of sound. Seductive, eternal and immensely beautiful. I usually listen to it late night when the world is sleeping and silence reigns supreme.
A box set is like a buffet, and a single CD is like dining a-la-carte. A perfectionist may prefer a-la-carte, but budget constraints and the desire for MORE, nudges us in the direction of the overladen buffet. The EMI box sets of Oistrakh, Richter and Rostropovich are overladen buffets. There is a certain amount of duplication. Perhaps a minor compromise with sound quality. But on the whole, they are a scintillating feast of great music by the Russian troika.
This Jascha Heifetz set is amazing. Sound quality on all the 6 CD's is very good considering the age of the recordings. And the music is like a sensuous river of sound. Seductive, eternal and immensely beautiful. I usually listen to it late night when the world is sleeping and silence reigns supreme.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
the best of Heifetz
12 Feb 2012
This is an incredibly cheap way to get a batch of some of the greatest violin concerto recordings of all time. Heifetz was unparalleled in the Sibelius, Prokofiev. Tchaikovsky, Bruch and Mendelssohn concertos; and if I prefer Oistrakh in the Brahms and Beethoven (David Oistrakh: The Complete EMI Recordings) it's because Heifetz, great as he is, misses some of the grandeur that the more rhetorical Oistrakh finds in these scores.
Other gems included in this set are Heifetz's gorgeous readings of the Bruch Scottish Fantasy and the Glazunov concerto. The Rozsa and Vieuxtemps concertos were never of much interest to me, so I'll not comment on them; however, Heifetz's recording of the Brahms double concerto with Piatigorsky has always been held in high esteem and is worthy of inclusion in this set. The violinist's Bach, Mozart and Vivaldi recordings also have their fans, and a sampling from each composer is also included.
As with the other sets in this barebones reissue series from Sony there's no documentation included, but no matter as this a stunning bargain (under $19 from amazon resellers as of this writing).
Other gems included in this set are Heifetz's gorgeous readings of the Bruch Scottish Fantasy and the Glazunov concerto. The Rozsa and Vieuxtemps concertos were never of much interest to me, so I'll not comment on them; however, Heifetz's recording of the Brahms double concerto with Piatigorsky has always been held in high esteem and is worthy of inclusion in this set. The violinist's Bach, Mozart and Vivaldi recordings also have their fans, and a sampling from each composer is also included.
As with the other sets in this barebones reissue series from Sony there's no documentation included, but no matter as this a stunning bargain (under $19 from amazon resellers as of this writing).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
great performance ever.
15 Mar 2012
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I have been a true fan for Heifetz for many years and can not stop loving him. If there were video available, that would be a dream comes true for his fans.
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