Virtuoso Violin Encores - Heifetz Transcriptions - Aaron Rosand (Vox)

Alexander Borodin (Composer), Johannes Brahms (Composer), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Composer), Stephen Foster (Composer), Leopold Godowsky (Composer), Jascha Heifetz (Composer), Aram Khachaturian (Composer), Nikolay Medtner (Composer), Aaron Rosand (Performer), John Covelli (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Aaron Rosand, John Covelli
• Composer: Alexander Borodin, Johannes Brahms, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Stephen Foster, Leopold Godowsky, et al.
• Audio CD (March 12, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vox (Classical)
• ASIN: B000001KBA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #597,046 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This CD swings!, December 4, 1999

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This review is from: Virtuoso Violin Encores - Heifetz Transcriptions - Aaron Rosand (Vox) (Audio CD)

Aaron Rosand sparkles in this CD -- the entire album is played brilliantly. The modern, jazzy pieces have a swing to them which is a surprising treat from a violinist who doesn't often record modern music (although judging from this CD, he should).

5.0 out of 5 stars Some Of the Best Recordings of Heifetz Transcriptions, May 18, 2011

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This review is from: Virtuoso Violin Encores - Heifetz Transcriptions (MP3 Download)

With this disc, the legendary Aaron Rosand gives us his interpretations of a number of Heifetz transcriptions. The first 5 or 6 on the disc are the Gershwin transcriptions, which I have never really cared much for, but that is more than made up for with the rest of the disc. I'll comment on a few of the others which I particularly enjoy listening to... Rosand's reading of one of the Medtner Db minor "Fairy Tale"s is wonderful - I have the file on my desktop and listen to it often - it is two minutes and forty-seven seconds of tragic passion. He plays it better than Heifetz himself did. Milstein once said about this transcription that it failed because the violin doesn't sing. This might be true, but Rosand's rendition most definitely sings; Rosand, in his prime, was a tonal expert. No one could shape a phrase like he could. The Ravel 'Valses Nobles' for piano were among Heifetz's best transcription efforts and Rosand's playing is perhaps second only to that of Heifetz's (you can hear it on his "Music from France" discing with Brooks Smith.)