For years, Jascha Heifetz was believed to have made a series of spoof recordings under the name Joseph Hague. In the June issue, we reveal that Hague was a real person – and track his life and career as a violinist, teacher and rosin maker in the US. Here's one of the Hague recordings formerly ascribed to Heifetz. Further examples can be heard here:
Joseph Hague plays Monti’s Csárdás
Joseph Hague plays F. Poliakin’s Le Canari
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The cellist performed during the reading of the names of those who died at Ground Zero on 11 September 2001
The live performance was filmed at LSO St Luke’s in 2025, celebrating the composer’s 90th anniversary
The work features on The Bridgetower Project, which aims to highlight the legacy of Afro-European violin virtuoso George Bridgetower.
The ensemble performs Kaprálová’s song ’With a White Kerchief He Waves’, arranged by Xandi van Dijk
The violinist performs the first movement ’fields, mountains’ from Bermel’s work Spring Cadenzas, that also features A Far Cry, Project STEP and conductor Earl Lee
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