Caprice, No. 20 Paganini, arr. Kreisler

Among the younger violin soloists, native to Britain, Harold Fairhurst already holds a distinguished place. While still very young he toured South Africa, giving a series of recitals with Carrie Tubb, and, returning to England, quickly achieved popularity in various towns and cities of the British Isles, after a remarkably successful London debut in 1925. A critic of The Sunday Times said of his playing that it 'might stand as a kind of musical embodiment of the English character as we like to conceive it'.