The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts Series

The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts were a series of chamber-music programs, beginning in 1961, devised by violinist Jascha Heifetz and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, both legends in their own time, who were also good friends living in Los Angeles. Each concert offered not only violin-cello duos but various combinations with pianists and/or other string players, plus occasionally a chamber orchestra to accompany one or both of them in a concerto or shorter work. Some of the concerts were offered in San Francisco and New York as well as L.A., and RCA recorded many of the works in its Hollywood studio. These were released on LP between 1964 and 1969…