Sergei Rachmaninoff and Fritz Kreisler… It is probably difficult to think of another ensemble of the same scale where each of the partners is a great Musician who has reached the pinnacle of perfection in his art and a composer with his own unique style. But it happened so that precisely these two men, so different in terms of temperament and works, teamed up to leave a greatest mark in history of the world's performing arts.
It is know how highly they thought of each other. This is what allowed them, two born soloists, to achieve an unbeaten duo of two firsts among equals, which will remain an inaccessible example for generations of musicians to come.
Firma Melodiya presents a unique album of violin sonatas of Edvard Grieg and Ludwig van Beethoven, and a duet for violin and piano of Franz Schubert performed by Kreisler and Rachmaninoff. The recordings were made in the 1928 in the United States.
