Heifetz Favourites: Transcriptions and more | Gramola 99236

Heifetz Favourites: Transcriptions and more

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Label: Gramola

Cat No: 99236

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 5th March 2021

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About

The American violinist of Romanian descent Jascha Heifetz is one of the greatest violin virtuosos of the past century. The Austrian violinist Benjamin Schmid takes the 120th anniversary of his birthday in 2021 as an opportunity for the release of an album in honour of this extraordinary musician. Together with his wife Ariane Haering at the piano, Schmid presents “Heifetz Favourites”, featuring Heifetz’s arrangements of works which he used to perform with great success in concerts. The album comprises countless audience hits which Heifetz arranged with virtuosity such as the Sabre Dance by Khachaturian, the Valse from Tchaikovsky’s String Serenade, Banjo and Fiddle by W. Kroll or Alt-Wien by Godowsky. Two pieces from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess create a link to jazz, which is represented by Mish Mash by Romanian Antoni Donchev and two tracks by Austrian Sabina Hank inspired by Duke Ellington. Thus, this repertoire is entirely in the tradition of Heifetz, who always thought across genres and kept an eye on contemporary art.

Since his debut at the Salzburg Festival as the solo partner of Sir Yehudi Menuhin in 1986, Benjamin Schmid has become one of the most important violinists of our time with his worldwide, ever-intense concert schedule. Benjamin Schmid’s more than fifty CDs have been awarded the German Record Critics’ Award (the only violinist in both classical and jazz categories), the Echo Klassik Award, Gramophone Editor’s Choice and Strad Selection, sometimes multiple times.

Swiss pianist Ariane Haering initially studied with Cécile Pantillon and Catherine Courvoisier in her home city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. She subsequently spent a year at the University of North Carolina where she studied with Clifton Matthews, and completed her studies in 1996 in the class of Brigitte Meyer with a 1er Prix de Virtuosité avec les félicitations du Jury. In 2016, Ariane Haering became a member of the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien. Her performances at the Salzburg Festival, the Salzburg Mozartwoche, at the International Mozarteum Foundation, the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, and the Ruhr Piano Festival cement her reputation as an international artist.

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