Prodigious: Jascha Heifetz. (sound recording history of renowned violinist now available on 65 compact discs in 'The Heifetz Collection')

The Economist (US) | December 10, 1994 | Copyright

A MUSIC critic, surveying the ranks of solo fiddlers in 1918, concluded, "Kreisler is king, Heifetz the prophet and all the rest violinists." Only a few years before, Fritz Kreisler had had the field largely to himself, delighting concert-goers with his warmth and skill. But in 1912 Jascha Heifetz made his Berlin debut. The 11-year-old Russian prodigy astonished everyone with a technical command worthy of Paganini and a musical confidence to match. Kreisler himself was bowled over, telling a colleague, "We might as well take our fiddles and break them over our knees!"

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