Benjamin Schmid & Ariane Haering - Heifetz Favorites: Transcriptions & More (2021) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Benjamin Schmid, Ariane Haering
- Title: Heifetz Favorites: Transcriptions & More
- Year Of Release: 2021
- Label: Gramola Records
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 44.1kHz +Booklet
- Total Time: 00:58:44
- Total Size: 289 / 558 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33: March (Arr. J. Heifetz for Piano & Violin)
02. Banjo and Fiddle
03. 4 Airs de Balle: No. 2, Valse bluette (Arr. J. Heifetz for Piano & Violin)
04. Porgy and Bess: Tempo di blues (Arr. J. Heifetz for Piano & Violin)
05. 2 Canciones mexicanas: No. 2, Estrellita (Arr. J. Heifetz for Piano & Violin)
06. Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48: II. Valse (Arr. L. Auer for Violin & Piano)
07. Gayaneh: Sabre Dance (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano)
08. Mish Mash (Arr. for Violin & Piano)
09. Sicilienne in E-Flat Major
10. Valse noble et sentimentales, M. 61: No. 7, Moins vif (Version for Violin & Piano)
11. Triakontameron: No. 11, Alt Wien (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano)
12. Prelude No. 15 "Ao pé da fogueira" (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano)
13. Porgy and Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano)
14. Thoughts over Caravan (After Ellington & Tizol)
15. In a Sentimental Mood for Two (After Ellington)
16. Valse sentimentale, Op. 51 No. 6, TH 143 No. 6 (Arr. H. Morgan for Violin & Piano)
17. Berceuse, Op. 16
18. Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 28: II. Air. Andante (Arr. for Violin & Piano)
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Has any violinist captured the imaginations of ensuing generations to the degree Romanian-American Jascha Heifetz has? Arguably not. So no wonder that there's always a steady trickle of recital releases centred around Heifetz's virtuosic transcriptions of popular tunes, which he used as recital encores (although, fascinatingly, these tend to pop less regularly as actual live recital encores). Still, when most often it's younger generation violinists who are recording this razzle-dazzle repertoire, this programme from Benjamin Schmidt and his pianist wife Ariane Haering – in honour of the 120th anniversary of Heifetz's birth – stands out for being the work of a violinist now in the fourth decade of his performance career.
You can hear all the confidence and technical assurance of years, too, right from his first crisply biting notes and firm portamentos in the programme-opening Prokofiev March from The Love for Three Oranges – a piece which overall he delivers big, bold and broad-toned, with a fabulous sweep to its upwards-racing runs. Likewise the rapid pizzicato strumming of the following Banjo and Fiddle by William Kroll.
Moving forwards, pieces such as It Ain't Necessarily So play perfectly to Schmid's well-exercised jazz muscles, while also opening up the field to a few equally entertaining modern pieces in the spirit of Heifetz – an arrangement of Mish Mash by Romanian Antoni Donchev, plus two pieces inspired by Duke Ellington by Schmid's fellow Austrian, Sabina Hank.
Add the inevitable close musical partnership between Schmid and Haering, and a lively immediacy to the engineering, and all in all it's a thoroughly fun listen.
01. The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33: March (Arr. J. Heifetz for Piano & Violin)
02. Banjo and Fiddle
03. 4 Airs de Balle: No. 2, Valse bluette (Arr. J. Heifetz for Piano & Violin)
04. Porgy and Bess: Tempo di blues (Arr. J. Heifetz for Piano & Violin)
05. 2 Canciones mexicanas: No. 2, Estrellita (Arr. J. Heifetz for Piano & Violin)
06. Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48: II. Valse (Arr. L. Auer for Violin & Piano)
07. Gayaneh: Sabre Dance (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano)
08. Mish Mash (Arr. for Violin & Piano)
09. Sicilienne in E-Flat Major
10. Valse noble et sentimentales, M. 61: No. 7, Moins vif (Version for Violin & Piano)
11. Triakontameron: No. 11, Alt Wien (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano)
12. Prelude No. 15 "Ao pé da fogueira" (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano)
13. Porgy and Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano)
14. Thoughts over Caravan (After Ellington & Tizol)
15. In a Sentimental Mood for Two (After Ellington)
16. Valse sentimentale, Op. 51 No. 6, TH 143 No. 6 (Arr. H. Morgan for Violin & Piano)
17. Berceuse, Op. 16
18. Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 28: II. Air. Andante (Arr. for Violin & Piano)
Has any violinist captured the imaginations of ensuing generations to the degree Romanian-American Jascha Heifetz has? Arguably not. So no wonder that there's always a steady trickle of recital releases centred around Heifetz's virtuosic transcriptions of popular tunes, which he used as recital encores (although, fascinatingly, these tend to pop less regularly as actual live recital encores). Still, when most often it's younger generation violinists who are recording this razzle-dazzle repertoire, this programme from Benjamin Schmidt and his pianist wife Ariane Haering – in honour of the 120th anniversary of Heifetz's birth – stands out for being the work of a violinist now in the fourth decade of his performance career.
You can hear all the confidence and technical assurance of years, too, right from his first crisply biting notes and firm portamentos in the programme-opening Prokofiev March from The Love for Three Oranges – a piece which overall he delivers big, bold and broad-toned, with a fabulous sweep to its upwards-racing runs. Likewise the rapid pizzicato strumming of the following Banjo and Fiddle by William Kroll.
Moving forwards, pieces such as It Ain't Necessarily So play perfectly to Schmid's well-exercised jazz muscles, while also opening up the field to a few equally entertaining modern pieces in the spirit of Heifetz – an arrangement of Mish Mash by Romanian Antoni Donchev, plus two pieces inspired by Duke Ellington by Schmid's fellow Austrian, Sabina Hank.
Add the inevitable close musical partnership between Schmid and Haering, and a lively immediacy to the engineering, and all in all it's a thoroughly fun listen.
Year 2021 | Classical | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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