唱歌吧......(Sing, Sing a Song...)

Jascha Heifetz (/ˈhaɪfɪts/; February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1901 – December 10, 1987)
was a Lithuanian-born American violinist. He was born in Vilnius. As a teen, he moved with his family to the United States, where his Carnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. He had a long and successful performing and recording career; after an injury to his right (bowing) arm, he focused on teaching. The New York Times called him "perhaps the greatest violinist of all time."

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Technique and timbre

Heifetz is considered to be one of the finest violinists of all time. Heifetz's technical command of his instrument – his physical ability to play the violin with stunning precision – is regarded by many critics as unequaled. That physical control enabled Heifetz to produce a distinctive tone quality, intense and shimmering, that came to be regarded as his trademark. Yet, from time to time his near-perfect technique and conservative stage demeanor caused some critics to accuse him of being overly mechanical, even cold. Virgil Thomson called Heifetz's style of playing "silk underwear music", a term he did not intend as a compliment. Other critics argue that he infused his playing with feeling and reverence for the composers' intentions. His style of playing was highly influential in defining the way modern violinists approach the instrument. His use of rapid vibrato, emotionally charged portamento, fast tempi, and superb bow control coalesced to create a highly distinctive sound that make Heifetz's playing instantly recognizable to aficionados. The violinist Itzhak Perlman, who himself is noted for his rich warm tone and expressive use of portamento, describes Heifetz's tone as like "a tornado" because of its emotional intensity. Perlman also said that Heifetz preferred to be recorded relatively close to the microphone; as a result, one would perceive a somewhat different tone quality when listening to Heifetz during a concert hall performance as opposed to a recording.

wherestip wrote:

Thanks for the links to the clips, pk.

IMO, no one can surpass Heifetz ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-4HgDNE86c

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz

Heifetz 老練的演繹當然是無懈可擊，由於過於剛烈的處理，便失去了細嚼的空間，無論如何比起年輕人粗枝大葉、傾盆雨下，便顯得世故、有分寸得多了。個人特別喜歡中段，兩位女士的表現，有近似中國元素的韻味。近日來見到一些後學，不分尊卑厚薄，肆無忌憚，實令人齒冷，廣東人說，教精他是為他的家山發，就抱著這心情，會好過點。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_de_los_Angeles

Victoria de los Ángeles (1 November 1923 – 15 January 2005) was a Spanish Catalan operatic lyric soprano and recitalist whose career began after the Second World War and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Her obituary in The Times (London) noted that she must be counted “among the finest singers of the second half of the 20th century". James Hinton, Jr., in Opera magazine (London), June 1954, praised her "meltingly lovely middle voice". Elizabeth Forbes, writing in The Independent on 17 January 2005, also noted that "It is impossible to imagine a more purely beautiful voice than that of Victoria de los Ángeles at the height of her career in the 1950s and early 1960s". She was ranked number 3, after Maria Callas and Dame Joan Sutherland, in the BBC Music Magazine's List of The Top Twenty Sopranos Of All Time (2007)