"Nobody who attended the session at which Ricci made this unusual recording is likely to forget the sight which greeted one on entering the studio: the long table, flanked by two pistol-packing Pinkerton detectives, bearing no fewer than 15 of the world's highest pedigreed violins... Ricci took up the violins one by one, planted his feet firmly on the yellow chalk marks sketched at the prescribed distance from the microphones, and played on each instrument a selection chosen to show it to best advantage. It was a fascinating parade of pieces that are fiddle music par excellence, and Ricci's masculine, unmincing approach suited most of them very well indeed." — High Fidelity
Tracklist:
A1 Intrada
A2 Larghetto
A3 Praeludium
A4 Cantabile And Waltz
A5 Adagio
A6 Improvisation, Op. 21, No. 1
A7 Melodie, Op. 42, No. 3
B1 Largo
B2 Sicilienne
B3 The Violin Maker Of Cremora
B4 Larghetto
B5 Romance In A Minor
B6 Hungarian Dance No. 17
B7 May Breeze (Song Without Words, Po. 62, No. 1)
Piano – Leon Pommers
Violin – Ruggiero Ricci