Performer: Jascha Heifetz, Milton Kaye, Emanuel Bay, Bing Crosby
Orchestra: Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra
Conductor: Salvatore Camarata, Victor Young, Donald Voorhees
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8111379
Release: 2011
Size: 152 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba, Op. 27
01. No. 2 (Arr. W. Primrose for violin and piano)
02. Gardner: From the Canebrake, Op. 5, No. 1
Dyer: Outlandish Suite
03. No. 2, Florida Night Song
04. White: Levee Dance, Op. 27, No. 2
05. trad.: Deep River
06. Foster: Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair
07. Foster: Old folks at home
08. Herbert: A la Valse
Bennett: Hexapoda – Five studies in Jitteroptera
09. No. 1, Gut Bucket Gus
10. No. 2, Jane Shakes Her Hair
11. No. 3, Betty and Harold Close Their Eyes
12. No. 4, Jim Jives
13. No. 5, Till Dawn Sunday
Burleigh: 6 Pictures, Op. 30
14. No. 4, Giant Hills
Burleigh: 4 Small Concert Pieces, Op. 21
15. No. 4, Moto Perpetuo
16. trad.: Gweedore Brae (Arr. J. Crowther for violin and piano)
17. Vale: Prelude No. 15, “ao pe da fogueira” (Arr. J. Heifetz for violin and piano)
18. Aguirre: Huella, Op. 49 (Arr. J. Heifetz for violin and piano)
Weill: 7 Stucke nach der Dreigroschenoper
19. No. 1, Moritat vom Mackie Messer (Arr. S. Frenkel for violin and piano)
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Act I
20. Summertime (Arr. J. Heifetz)
21. A Woman Is a Sometime Thing (Arr. J. Heifetz)
22. My Man’s Gone Now (Arr. J. Heifetz)
Act II
23. It Aint Necessarily so (Arr. J. Heifetz)
24. Bess You Is My Woman Now (Arr. J. Heifetz)
Act III
25. There’s a boat That’s leavin’ soon for New York (Arr. J. Heifetz)
Gershwin: Preludes
26. No. 1 in B-Flat Major: Allegro ben ritmato e deciso (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano)
27. No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor: Andante con moto e poco rubato (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano)
28. No. 3 in E-Flat Minor: Allegro ben ritmato e deciso (Arr. J. Heifetz for Violin & Piano)
29. Berlin: White Christmas (Arr. For violin and orchestra)
Godard: Jocelyn
30. Berceuse (Arr. For vocal, violin and orchestra)
31. Lohr: Where My Caravan Has Rested (Arr. For vocal, violin and orchestra)
Scott: Talahassee Suite, Op. 73, No. 4
32. I. Bygone Memories (Arr. For violin and orchestra)
33. Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba (Arr. J. Heifetz for violin and orchestra)
During 1943-44 Jascha Heifetz toured widely, entertaining US troops with popular repertoire as well as that of the great classical composers. Returning to turmoil in the recording industry, Heifetz worked briefly for Decca rather than RCA, recording hits such as Jamaican Rumba and his own superb arrangements of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, as well as collaborating with Bing Crosby. He performed this lighter music with all of the precision and passion he invested in major masterpieces. As Heifetz himself once said: ‘There are only two kinds of music – good music and bad music.’ This is the first of two newly re-mastered discs which preserve a unique and timelessly magical moment in musical history.