Reccitativo and Scherzo, Op. 6 | Fritz Kreisler | Jascha Heifetz

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 Yo