It Ain't Necessarily So: violin favourites from classical to jazz.

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It Ain't Necessarily So: violin favourites from classical to jazz.
Jascha Heifetz (violin)

[ DG / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 1 November 2006

This item is only available to us via Special Order. We should be able to get it to you in 3 - 6 weeks from when you order it.

Heifetz (1901-1987) has regularly been dubbed 'The Violinist of the Century', and there is no doubt he set standards of technical perfection and virtuosity that all violinists look up to.

Tracks:

GARDNER: From the Canebrake, Op.5 No.1
BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rumba (arr. Primrose)
DEBUSSY: Beau Soir (arr. Heifetz)
RAVEL: Pièce en forme de habanera (arr. G. Catherine)
WHITE: Levee Dance Op.27/2
ROSSINI: Figaro (arr. Castelnuovo-Tedesco)
FOSTER: Jeanie with the light brown hair (arr. Heifetz)
HERBERT: A la valse
DVORÁK: Humoresque in G flat major, Op. 101 No. 7*
TRADITIONAL IRISH: Gweedore Brae (arr. John Crowther)
FOSTER: Old Folks at Home*
TRADITIONAL: Deep River*
GODOWSKY: Wienerisch (Impression No.12) *
BERLIN: White Christmas
GERSHWIN: Summertime | A Woman is a Sometime Thing | My Man's Gone Now
It Ain't Necessarily So | Tempo di Blues (There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York) | Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Porgy and Bess)
GERSHWIN: Three Preludes:
DYER: An Outlandish Suite (Florida Night Song)
DEBUSSY: Golliwogg's Cakewalk* (Children's Corner, No.6)
DEBUSSY: Clair de lune* (Suite bergamasque, No.3)
VALE: Ao pé da fogueira*
AGUIRRE: Huella Op.49 (Canción argentina)*
SHOSTAKOVICH: Preludes Op. 34:*
GRASSE: Wellenspiel
PROKOFIEV: March (Love for Three Oranges)*
PROKOFIEV: Maskers (Romeo and Juliet)
BENNETT: Hexapoda (5 Studies in Jitteroptera):
WEILL: Mack the Knife (Threepenny Opera)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Mélodie Op. 42 No. 3 in E flat Souvenir d'un lieu cher
CHOPIN: Nocturne in E flat, Op. 55 No. 2*
GLUCK: Orphée et Eurydice: Mélodie (arr. Kreisler)
SCHUMANN: Vogel als Prophet*
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Hymn to the Sun (Le coq d'or) (arr. Kreisler)
KREIN: Dance No.4*
BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No.7 in A major (arr. Joachim)
SAINT-SAËNS: The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)*
BURLEIGH: Giant Hills (Pictures, Op.30)
BURLEIGH: Moto perpetuo (Small Concert Pieces, No.4, from Op.21)
GODARD: Lullaby (Berceuse) (Jocelyn)
LÖHR: Where My Caravan Has Rested
BONUS TRACK
Jim Hoyl (alias Jascha Heifetz): When You Make Love to Me (Don't Make Believe)
Jascha Heifetz, piano
*Arr. Heifetz