Heifetz Sacd

Beethoven / Mendelsohn: Violin Concertos
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch / Jascha Heifetz
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 2,30 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,12, GB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: RCA Red Seal "Living Stereo" # 82876-61391-2 | Country/Year: US 2006, 1955 & 1959
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School

"…I don't care how many versions of these concerti you have…If you don't have a Heifetz recording you are missing out, and this SACD is the one to have. Go buy it now." ~sa-cd.net

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.

Spectacular virtuoso playing, bravura passagework and show-stopping melodies are balanced with wistful lyricism and sublime tone painting in this irresistible program of perennial favorites, played with elan by the violinist Arabella Steinbacher. "Great violinists like Heifetz, Kresler, menuhin… played virtuosic pieces in their concerts," recalled Steinbacher in a recent interview. She lamented that such pieces are infrequently played owing to the perception that "…this kind of repertoire is 'not serious enough' which I find is really a pity and also not true."

Baiba Skride - Bach Bartok Ysaye
SACD ISO (Stereo): 3,12 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,30 GB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Sony Classical # SK 92938 | Country/Year: Germany 2004
Genre: Classical | Style: Violin, Romantic, Modern

The Latvian violinist Baiba Skride won the 2001 Queen Elisabeth competition at the age of twenty. This is her debut recital for Sony, and probably the only SACD of her playing for the indefinite future, as her follow up has only been released on plain CD. (…) This disc is one of the most intelligently planned violin selections currently available…

Baiba Skride - Bach Bartok Ysaye
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 387 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Sony Classical # SK 92938 | Country/Year: Germany 2004
Genre: Classical | Style: Violin, Romantic, Modern

The Latvian violinist Baiba Skride won the 2001 Queen Elisabeth competition at the age of twenty. This is her debut recital for Sony, and probably the only SACD of her playing for the indefinite future, as her follow up has only been released on plain CD. (…) This disc is one of the most intelligently planned violin selections currently available…

These classic recordings need little comment from me on artistic grounds. Heifetz's account of the Mendelssohn never has been bettered for sheer dazzling virtuosity, and although the Beethoven is more controversial (some find it "cold"), I love its unaffected, truly classical purity. Besides, you also get Munch and the Boston Symphony, no mean bonus. It's interesting to compare the two performances in multichannel sound, since the Beethoven is two-track, while the Mendelssohn offers three.