In place of the customary unreeling of venerably uninteresting Italian sonatas, Mr. Heifetz began with a Schubert sonatina—a ...

It's hard not to talk numbers when it comes to the new Jascha Heifetz collection. Last week Sony Classical released a 10-pound box of the famed violinist's recordings — 103 CDs in all, which the ...

Here’s Jascha Heifetz performing the great D-minor Chaconne by Bach. This is a studio performance, as you shall see, made circa 1971. There are no edits that I detect — it’s one long take. Heifetz ...

What treasures lurk in the vaults of record companies. The latest example comes from the RCA archives, where a good hour’s worth of previously unreleased material featuring Jascha Heifetz, perhaps ...

To Itzhak Perlman, he was, simply, "God." He was the greatest violin virtuoso of the 20th century. He was the violinist who almost single-handedly defined the art of violin performance for an entire ...

Always ready to profer advice to musicians, George Bernard Shaw once told the young Jascha Heifetz: ”Nothing must be perfect in this world, or else the gods become jealous and destroy it.” Shaw went ...

To Itzhak Perlman, he was, simply, “God.” The greatest violin virtuoso of the 20th century. The violinist who almost singlehandedly defined the art of violin performance for an entire era. That Jascha ...