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Heifetz Violins at Southwest Strings
May 5th, 2023
Introducing Heifetz Violins
March 21st, 2022
Jascha Heifetz Violins® From Meisel are authorized bench copies of the original violin of 1740 by
Giuseppe Guarneri (del Gesu), which was obtained by Jascha Heifetz in 1922.
The goal behind making these violins available is to offer serious players options for instruments that provide consistent, high-quality results at affordable prices, and to make sure that they provide the world’s best value for money in a violin that’s been bench-crafted to the same dimensions as the one favored by Jascha Heifetz for the majority of his career.
For more information, visit Heifetz Violins.
Complete Stereo Collection Available on 24 CDs
July 7th, 2016
The complete Heifetz stereo recordings have been remastered in 24-bit from their original tapes for the first time and are now available in a new 24-CD box set from Sony Classical http://www.smarturl.it/JH-CompleteStereo
PBS American Masters to Feature Heifetz This Month
April 3rd, 2015
Jascha Heifetz: God’s Fiddler Available on DVD
April 1st, 2015
Soon to air as a part of The American Masters series on PBS in the United States, this film portrays an artist for whom only perfection would do, a musical wunderkind who went on to set the standards for nearly a century. We get to know Jascha Heifetz through home movies and personal family photos taken from 1903-1987, a prestigious concert artist so well known in popular culture, his name became synonymous for greatness. The program includes interviews with the great violinists of his generation, and from many of his former students, although his son, Jay, not interviewed in the film, remembers the years of growing up with his father as being joyous and loving, not consistent with the conclusions drawn by the film and its sources.
They Shall Have Music Available on DVD
March 19th, 2015
New Sheet Music Now Available
February 16th, 2015
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Passacaglia for Two Violins (Heifetz Collection). By George Frideric Handel. Edited by Jascha Heifetz. Arranged by Johan Halvorsen. For Violin Duet. LKM Music. Softcover. 12 pages. Lauren Keiser Music Publishing #S512002. Published by Lauren Keiser Music Publishing (HL.126549). |
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Polonaise Brillante No. 2 (Violin and Piano Heifetz Collection). By Henri Wieniawski. Arranged by Endre Granat. For Violin, Piano Accompaniment. LKM Music. 16 pages. Lauren Keiser Music Publishing #S511019. Published by Lauren Keiser Music Publishing (HL.126550). |
Two new releases from the Heifetz Series for Violin are now available — George Frederic Handel’s Passacaglia for Two Violins, and Henryk Wieniawski’s Polonaise Brilliant No. 2. Both products are accessible from Sheet Music Plus by clicking on the editions’ covers here, or from either Amazon or Sheet Music Plus by using the “Store” link above.
“The Complete Collection” Now Again Available
March 27th, 2014Sony Classics has just released a limited number of additional copies of the 103-CD Heifetz Complete Collection, available through the link on this site worldwide.
“The greatest number of audio discs in a boxed set of classical recordings by a single instrumentalist is 103, achieved by Jascha Heifetz – The Complete Album Collection” GUINNESS WOLRD RECORDS LTD — Guinness World Records, December 14, 2010.
“Befitting his legendary status, Jascha Heifetz-The Complete Album Collection, is the biggest box set ever created for a solo artist. With 103 CDs and 1 DVD, this limited edition collection features all of the violinist’s recordings made by RCA Victor between 1917 and 1972,those made in England for His Master’s Voice and distributed in the U.S. by RCA Red Seal, three LPs issued on Columbia Masterworks and one on Vox Cum Laude. Of special note is the inclusion of three bonus CDs containing over two-and-a-half hours of previously unreleased music and a DVD documentary, “Heifetz in Performance”, with footage of the artist playing his favorite repertoire. Rounding out this impressive collection are CDs packaged in reproductions of the original LP sleeves and labels, plus a 260-page hardcover book, making this THE must-have box set of the year.”
Special Pricing on iTunes
March 7th, 2014With his recordings of the Mendelssohn & Bruch Violin Concertos, Jascha Heifetz impressively demonstrated why he was the most celebrated violin soloist of his generation. As part of the iTunes Essentials: Classical series, these great recordings are now available at a special price for a limited time.
New English Version of Heifetz Early Years Biography Available
January 9th, 2014A new English translation of the history of Jascha Heifetz’ early years in Russia, including family interactions, first lessons and performances, conservatory experiences, and newspaper coverage is now available. Written by St. Petersburg archivist Galina Kopytova with the collaboration of Albina Starkova-Heifetz, and translated by Dario Sarlo and Alexandra Wiktorek, the English version has been published by Indiana University Press, and is now available from Amazon:
