{"id":2156,"date":"2021-01-26T12:35:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T12:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:53:24","slug":"a-magic-violinist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-magic-violinist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Magic Violinist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the scottish theme today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When choosing which clip of a piece of music to share there are a number of different considerations &#8211; in the case of today&#8217;s this is an old recording &#8211; but it features perhaps the best violinist ever &#8211; Jascha Heifetz. As a youngster exploring classical music I well remember listening to many of his recordings of the great violin concerti.<\/p>\n<p>As with all older recordings, the sound quality is not what we have become accustomed to &#8211; actually there are some other&#8217;s on YouTube of Heifetz playing this piece which are older, but have better sound &#8211; but don&#8217;t have the benefit of seeing him play!<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V_zvmhjXZzI?si\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Bruch : Scottish Fantasy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V_zvmhjXZzI?si\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the scottish theme today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[129,100],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-concerto","tag-orchestral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}