Jean Sibelius:
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47

Josef Suk:
Four Pieces, Op.17

Ravel:
Tzigane
Piece en forme de habanera

Dinicu:
Hora Staccato (arr. Heifetz)

Gluck:
Mélodie/Danse (Orfeo ed Euridice)

Scarlatescu:
Bagatelle

Paradies:
Sicilienne (arr. Dushkin)

de Falla:
Danse Espagnole (arr. Kreisler)

"around the head of Neveu is no gentle halo , but a flame of fire" (Gramophone) …

She was an incomparably promising young violinist. She won the inaugural Henryk Wieniawski International Competition in 1935, beating David Oistrakh; she was 15, he was 27. Perhaps her best-known recording is the Sibelius Concerto …Her unique quality was the intense and passionate beauty of her playing, an incandescent · and fiercely primitive passion that seemed always on the verge of breaking all restraint, yet just controlled by powerful will and intellect … As she played she crouched over her fiddle like a tense panther about to spring and she produced sound pulsed with unspeakable intensities… as one who was privileged to know her, I feel that the suggestive power of her personality comes most strongly from the Ravel Tzigane and the Sibelius Concerto.” (Walter Legge / EMI)

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Recordings: London, 1945 (1-3); London, 1946 (4-10, 12, 14); Berlin, 1938 (11, 13).