Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
After a 1929 concert in Berlin, Albert Einstein went backstage, kissed the 13-year-old prodigy and said, "Today Yehudi, you have once again proved to me that there is a God in heaven". We hear a similar discourse from writer and music critic George Bernard Shaw: “Listening to an artist like Yehudi makes even an atheist believe in God.”
According to Arthur Abell's testimony, the great violinist Fritz Kreisler, listening to 12-year-old Jascha Heifetz, would say: 'We can break our violins on our knees.' Arthur Nikisch would call 13-year-old Heifetz. "The greatest violinist I've ever heard".
The great violinist Joseph Joachim wrote on Franz von Vecsey's album: 'God guard thee, thou wonderfully gifted child!' One of his great violinists, Eugène Ysaÿe, would also say of Vecsey, "So small and yet so great!" Also Sibelius was to dedicate his famous violin concerto to Vecsey.
"Only a genius plays so.", Anton Rubinstein's reaction upon hearing 10-year-old Bronislaw Huberman. Brahms was in the audience when Huberman played Brahms' Violin Concerto at age 13, and Brahms' friends said Brahms cried: "As soon as Brahms heard the sound of the violin, he pricked up his ears, during the Andante he wiped his eyes. " Theodor Leschetizky would say about Huberman: “A judgment of Huberman is quickly rendered. He is simply a phenomenon, an apparition before whom criticism ceases. Mind you, Huberman was never that which is known as a 'child prodigy'. At the age of six years, he was already a miraculous man who, far from being reduced to normal stature, kept himself at an illustrious height.”
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00:00 Yehudi Menuhin (14 YO) - Arcangelo Corelli's 'La Folia' (Final)
* 1930 recording. I didn't use the full recording, I only took the final part.
02:22 Yehudi Menuhin (14 YO) - Ottokar Novacek's 'Perpetuum mobile'
* 1930 recording
04:59 Jascha Heifetz (10 YO) - František Drdla's 'Souvenir' in D Major
* 1911 recording
07:53 Jascha Heifetz (16 YO) - Antonio Bazzini's 'La ronde des Lutins'
* 1917 recording.
11:53 Ruggiero Ricci (12 YO) - Niccolò Paganini's 'La Campanella'
* 1930 recording.
16:25 Franz von Vecsey (11 YO) - Jenő Hubay's 'Carmen Fantasy'
* 1904 recording
21:08 Ginette Neveu (15 YO) - Manuel De Falla's 'La vida breve' (arr. Fritz Kreisler)
* 1935 recording
24:39 Itzhak Perlman (13 YO)- Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita for Solo Violin No. 3 E Major Gavotte
* 1957 recording
25:26 Anne-Sophie Mutter (14 YO) - Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Movement 3
* 1978 recording
31:27 Christian Ferras (14 YO) - Fedelico Elizalde's Violin Concerto, Movement 1
* 1947 recording
40:01 Mischa Elman (15 YO) - Anton Rubinstein's 'Melody' in F
* 1906 recording
41:51 Bronislaw Huberman (17 YO) - Frederic Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 (arr. Pablo de Sarasate)
After a 1929 concert in Berlin, Albert Einstein went backstage, kissed the 13-year-old prodigy and said, "Today Yehudi, you have once again proved to me that there is a God in heaven". We hear a similar discourse from writer and music critic George Bernard Shaw: “Listening to an artist like Yehudi makes even an atheist believe in God.”
According to Arthur Abell's testimony, the great violinist Fritz Kreisler, listening to 12-year-old Jascha Heifetz, would say: 'We can break our violins on our knees.' Arthur Nikisch would call 13-year-old Heifetz. "The greatest violinist I've ever heard".
The great violinist Joseph Joachim wrote on Franz von Vecsey's album: 'God guard thee, thou wonderfully gifted child!' One of his great violinists, Eugène Ysaÿe, would also say of Vecsey, "So small and yet so great!" Also Sibelius was to dedicate his famous violin concerto to Vecsey.
"Only a genius plays so.", Anton Rubinstein's reaction upon hearing 10-year-old Bronislaw Huberman. Brahms was in the audience when Huberman played Brahms' Violin Concerto at age 13, and Brahms' friends said Brahms cried: "As soon as Brahms heard the sound of the violin, he pricked up his ears, during the Andante he wiped his eyes. " Theodor Leschetizky would say about Huberman: “A judgment of Huberman is quickly rendered. He is simply a phenomenon, an apparition before whom criticism ceases. Mind you, Huberman was never that which is known as a 'child prodigy'. At the age of six years, he was already a miraculous man who, far from being reduced to normal stature, kept himself at an illustrious height.”
My website on classical music: chopinzee.com
If you want to support me: patreon.com/chopinzee
Instagram: instagram.com/ozanfabien
Twitter: twitter.com/chopinzeeblog
00:00 Yehudi Menuhin (14 YO) - Arcangelo Corelli's 'La Folia' (Final)
* 1930 recording. I didn't use the full recording, I only took the final part.
02:22 Yehudi Menuhin (14 YO) - Ottokar Novacek's 'Perpetuum mobile'
* 1930 recording
04:59 Jascha Heifetz (10 YO) - František Drdla's 'Souvenir' in D Major
* 1911 recording
07:53 Jascha Heifetz (16 YO) - Antonio Bazzini's 'La ronde des Lutins'
* 1917 recording.
11:53 Ruggiero Ricci (12 YO) - Niccolò Paganini's 'La Campanella'
* 1930 recording.
16:25 Franz von Vecsey (11 YO) - Jenő Hubay's 'Carmen Fantasy'
* 1904 recording
21:08 Ginette Neveu (15 YO) - Manuel De Falla's 'La vida breve' (arr. Fritz Kreisler)
* 1935 recording
24:39 Itzhak Perlman (13 YO)- Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita for Solo Violin No. 3 E Major Gavotte
* 1957 recording
25:26 Anne-Sophie Mutter (14 YO) - Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Movement 3
* 1978 recording
31:27 Christian Ferras (14 YO) - Fedelico Elizalde's Violin Concerto, Movement 1
* 1947 recording
40:01 Mischa Elman (15 YO) - Anton Rubinstein's 'Melody' in F
* 1906 recording
41:51 Bronislaw Huberman (17 YO) - Frederic Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 (arr. Pablo de Sarasate)
