Marcel Proust (1871-1922) wrote in his novel "Du Cote de Chez Swann" ("In The Path of Swann"? - I'm giving you a free translation from my version in Portuguese): "There is in a violin - when you can't see the instrument and you can't link what you hear to its image, a thing that changes its sonority, intonations that are so usual with certain contralto voices that you have the illusion that a female singer came to join the concert." When this novel was first published (1913), people used to go to the concert theatre - as far as I know, recordings (78's) were not still available to wide audiences. But, IMHO Proust was talking about recordings when he wrote the above text. Do the list members know what recordings of CM were available at that time? Any particular piece for violin? What about the recording industry - when everything started after all? Wilson Pereira. Natal, Brazil.