"Louis Kaufman was born on May 10, 1905 in Portland, Oregon. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Romania. The thirteen-year-old Kaufman began studying with Franz Kneisel in New York City at the lnsti tute of Musical Art, now known as the Jui I liard School. Kaufman gave his solo debut in the New York Town Hall in 1928. He then went on to play with such acclaimed musicians as Pablo Casals, Jasch a Heifetz etc. In 1932 Kaufman married the pianist Annette Leibol e and performed frequent! y with her in p ublic. The famous Hollywood director Ernst Lubitsch heard him play on the radio in 1934. Lubitsch liked the way Kaufman played and it was the beginning of a long collaboration. Kaufman played the music for between 400 and 500 films. At the same time, he continued to give concerts in Los Angeles and New York. This was the era of the big boom in long-playing records after the introduction of vinyl. Kaufman subsequently made more than 100 recordings of the main works for violin, together with leading orchestras and famous conductors. Louis Kaufman died on February 9, 1994. The recordings featured on this historic CD album are predominantly from the 1940s and sos."

Artists

Louis Kaufman (violin), Artur Balsam (piano), Peter Rybar (violin), Pina Pozzi (piano), Theodore Saidenberg (piano), Paul Ulanowsky (piano), Helene Pignari (piano), Aaron Copland (piano), Robert Russell Bennett (piano), Pascal String Quartet, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Musical Masterpiece Symphony Orchestra, The Concert Hall Chamber Orchestra, Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Maurits van den Berg, Darius Milhaud, Otto Ackermann, Walter Goehr, Henry Swoboda, Clemens Dahinden