Brahms: Double Concerto / Bruch: Scottish Fantasy / Glazunov: Violin Concerto

The major performance on this disc is a rare collaboration between the two best string virtuosi of their time, Jascha Heifetz and Emanuel Feuermann. It is rare because that astonishing cellist Feuermann went into hospital for a routine operation and died of complications when he was not yet forty. At the time of his death there were plans to make further records with Heifetz, including all the Beethoven string trios; the third player was to have been the finest violist of the day, Scots-born William Primrose. As it is, we have two amazing performances by these three stars, Mozart's Divertimento in E flat, K563, and Dohnanyi's Serenade, as well as Beethoven's, 'Eyeglass' Duet with Primrose and Feuermann and a handful of piano trios with Artur Rubinstein, Heifetz and Feuermann.