Jascha Heifetz Plays Brahms CD

Some lines of a review by S James Wegg (Canada)\"Collaboration of the highest orderIn the careers of many musicians there comes a special moment when they suddenly realize that they are artists first, instrumentalists second. (For composers that transition signals the beginning of having something to say rather than making something to play.)... Curiously, when the cello is joined by one guitar the Spanish-tinged music brings a gallery of images to mind making this sort of writing well suited for further expansion into the fertile mind of a choreographer; when a pair of six-string fretted instruments-Gino Herman completes the roster of performers-are melded with a smooth finger board and just four high-tension "wires" (the unabashedly romantic "Ballade"-with a hint of Grieg's "Death of Ase" lurking deep in the melodic weeds) the soundscape cries out for a big screen treatment to do justice to the wide variety of visual representations that the trio evokes; yet when left truly seul (most notably and delectably "Ave Nocturna") the beautifully crafted lines-spun out with care by Vercruysse as the listener eagerly awaits ...