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Heifetz & Piatigorsky - Historic Performance Film Footage
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780769779102
Format: Black & White, Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0769779107
Label: Kultur Video
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
MPN: 1101
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kultur Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Running Time: 88 minutes
Studio: Kultur Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1981
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Editorial Review:
Jascha Heifetz -Rare footage of the incomparable violinist at the height of his career. The program begins with a portrait of the artist. It takes us into the home of the virtuoso where we view his practice techniques and her Heifetz playing Chaconne (Vitali) Prelude in E-Major (Bach), Girl With the Flaxen Hair (Debussy), Scherzo Tarantella (Wieniawsky), Twenty-Fourth Caprice (Paganini) In the next segment, Heifetz and his accompanist Emanuel Bay give an impromptu recital at Pomona College. The varied program includes Sweet Remembrance (Mendelssohn), Sonatensatz (Brahms), Hungarian Dance No. 7 (Brahms), Melodie (Gluck), March from Love for Three Oranges (Prokofiev), Polonaise (Wienawsky), Hora Staccato (Dinicu-Heifetz)
Gregor Piatigorsky -One of the greatest cellists of all time in a brilliant presentation of: Bourees #1 and #2 from C-Major Suite (Bach), Slow Movement from Cello Sonata (Chopin), Masques from Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev), Romance (Anton Rubinstein), Waltz (Tchaikovsky) , Introduction, Theme and Variations (Schubert-Piatigorsky).
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 5 stars... for content only
The video tape version looked and sounded at least as good, maybe a little better. Seems like no real attempt was made to get the most out of the sound or picture using the advantages of digital technology. Looks like Kultur just slapped it on DVD, cheaply and without adding an inch of new material. However, if you don't have it on tape, without consideration of my previous commentary, it's still an invaluable document of Heifetz and Piatigorsky in performance from in their prime.
Rating:  - In b&w, static picture, sound could be better
This documentary, in black and white, shows the artists playing, but the scenes are relatively static, the quality of sound could be better, and the picture in not much richer than a slightly animated slide show, unless the objective is to see the artist's technique. There is no much advantage of watching this documentary over listening just the music from CD.
Rating: - Heifitz is the greatest violin player
Listen to this recording without interruption and feel the beauty and power of a musician with perfect pitch, perfect technique and perfect interpretation. This recording is flawless and shows Heifetz at his best. Piatigorsky is also rated as the greatest cellist, for obvious reasons. A recording for anyone who loves music, and appreciates the very best.
Patricia Pyper "Lady Blue"
Rating: - Nothing less than amazing
This was the first classical music video I ever saw, back around 1989.
It was a long time before it got released on DVD, but I'm glad it finally did. This DVD (and the VHS tape that preceded it) is actually three short films that were produced by Rudolph Polk and Bernard Luber in the early 1950s. The great violinist Louis Kaufman, interestingly, saw these around the time they were made, and commented in his memoir, "the films were 50 years ahead of their time." They were in fact part of ... Read More
Rating: - Very interesting
The whole film (both Heifetz and Piatigorsky) was acted. I've seen fragments of the movie Heifetz made. Contrary to the Amazon reviewer, this was not an "impromptu" performance at a college. It was a movie with actors. Likewise the Piatigorsky, it was scripted and acted. And I thought it was very entertaining, interesting. The few moments of Heifetz' fingers in slow motion was interesting too, though not long enough. I didn't care for much that Heifetz played (particularly his standards, the ... Read More
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