Charles-Auguste de Bériot, a Belgian violinist and composer, was a student of Viotti and Baillot, and later taught Henri Vieuxtemps.
Giovanni Battista Viotti, whose Violin Concerto No. 22 is featured, is considered the founding father of all modern violin schools.
The concertos by Oskar Rieding, Friedrich Seitz, and Jean-Baptiste Accolay on this album are virtually never recorded.
Itzhak Perlman, the violinist on this recording, decided to record these works primarily for the next generation of soloists.
Itzhak Perlman chose to record these concertos with a student orchestra, specifically The Juilliard Orchestra, where he himself had studied.
Itzhak Perlman retained the original fingering (first position) for the concertos by Rieding, Seitz, and Accolay for reasons of authenticity.
