It's hard not to talk numbers when it comes to the new Jascha Heifetz collection. Last week Sony Classical released a 10-pound box of the famed violinist's recordings — 103 CDs in all, which the ...

To Itzhak Perlman, he was, simply, "God." He was the greatest violin virtuoso of the 20th century. He was the violinist who almost single-handedly defined the art of violin performance for an entire ...

Elgar: Violin Concerto; Walton: Violin Concerto Heifetz/LSO/Sargent/ Cincinatti SO/Goossens Brahms: Double Concerto; Bruch: Scottish Fantasy; Glazunov Violin Concerto ...

Always ready to profer advice to musicians, George Bernard Shaw once told the young Jascha Heifetz: ”Nothing must be perfect in this world, or else the gods become jealous and destroy it.” Shaw went ...

To Itzhak Perlman, he was, simply, “God.” The greatest violin virtuoso of the 20th century. The violinist who almost singlehandedly defined the art of violin performance for an entire era. That Jascha ...

Jascha Heifetz and Fritz Kreisler were both born on Feb. 2 — Kreisler in 1875 and Heifetz in 1901. But the two men share more than just a birthday. Music commentator Miles Hoffman joins Renee Montagne ...