听Heifetz Plays Gershwin，感受这位风格有如英勇战士的演奏家柔情的另一面。

Gershwin的钢琴作品比较闻名，但未见有小提琴作品。这张专辑是Heifetz从Gershwin作品改编的小提琴小品。其技术要求自然是不低的，但更引人入胜的是浪漫不羁Jazz风格，双音、大胆的滑弦不绝于耳。关于这几个改编作品的来历，请看以下引文：

In the roaring 1920s, George Gershwin, then a sleek young Broadway songwriter, was invited to the swellest New York parties. To the delight of his hosts, he’d head straight for the piano and play his songs for hours. Sometimes he’d look up and see another frequent guest, Jascha Heifetz, the stunning violin virtuoso, who himself was quite the man about town.

When Gershwin spotted Heifetz, he’d break into “Mischa, Yascha, Toscha, Sascha”, a song he and his brother Ira had written about Heifetz and three other Russian violinists (see Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress: George Gershwin-Andrew Sun). Soon the two men became friends. They played music together, and of course Heifetz asked Gershwin to write a work for him. Gershwin, however, was preoccupied with other projects, and in 1937, two years after the premiere of Porgy and Bess, he developed a brain tumor and died at the tragically young age of 39. He never wrote a major piece for the violin, but Heifetz, as if to fill the void, made violin arrangements of five Porgy and Bess songs, along with the Three Preludes, originally for piano.

以下是专辑的曲目：

An American in Paris
Five Selections from Porgy and Bess:
-Summertime and Woman is a Sometime Thing
-My Man`s Gone Now
-It Ain`t Necessarily So
-Bess, You is My Woman Now
-Tempo di Blues
Three Preludes for Piano

许多人都喜欢说Heifetz的风格很cold，我相信其中“看”音乐之人居多。如果闭着眼音，不看Heifetz演奏时的高傲的神情，就能感到一股热。他的Sibelius，Tchaikovsky和Brahms协奏曲就是明证。若说在这些协奏曲中，Heifetz虽热情但缺乏柔情，那么在他的小品录音中就可以看到他的另一面。除了Gershwin的这几个作品外，Heifetz还改编了如Chopin的Nocturne，Mendelssohn乘着歌声的翅膀等，其浪漫可与Kreisler比美。

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