Mischa Elman

My first ever Mischa Elman CDs arrived yesterday from Passionato.  This 2 CD set only cost me about $6.  Wow.  You can't get bargains like that on iTunes!

His version of the Gossec Gavotte from Suzuki Violin School Book 1 is something else!  Very charming.  There is also the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Lalo's Symphonie espagnole and the Khachaturian Concerto.  It's crazy how cheap classical music is these days.  Elman died in 1967, but he didn't record for the big record companies it would seem.  He was about 12 years older than Heifetz and Milstein (a couple of other great Jewish violinists from Russia).