Reccitativo and Scherzo, Op. 6
Fritz Kreisler | Jascha Heifetz
0:00 Reccitativo
2:03 Scherzo
Kreisler's opus 6 is one of his least-known pieces for solo violin. This is his only solo violin piece composed in 1910, which he dedicated to Eugene Ysaÿe, “le maitre et l’ami,” the master and friend, as a musical thank you note. Ysaÿe himself dedicated his fourth sonata to Kriesler, imitating his styles and even quoting Kreisler’s well-known Praeludium and Allegro.
Unlike so many of Kreisler's best-known pieces, it is neither arrangement nor adaptation, nor did he ever try to pass it off as another composer's work. On the contrary, it is pure Kreisler, a few minutes' worth of dramatic musical rhapsody and fireworks that come as a pleasant surprise to the listener who knows Kreisler only as the author of salon-style Viennese dances and faux-Baroque trifles.
Jascha Heifitz, called “perhaps the greatest violinist of all time” by Harold Schonberg of the New York Times, was a friend and colleague of Kreisler, although the latter respected Heifitz very much. He said upon hearing Heifitz’s Carnegie Hall Debut that “We might as well take our fiddles and smash them across our knees.”
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