The film is of a 2004 concert performance of Mr. Sokolov in the Saint-Pierre des Cuisines Auditorium in Toulouse, accompanied on the piano by Svetlana Kosenko. "There are today magnificent virtuosos - the Itzhak Perlmans, Vadim Repins, Hilary Hahns, Maxim Vengerovs, and the like - but none of them, in my opinion, bear the indisputable mark of that which made the intensely original art of the great violinists of the recent past. Since the death of David Oistrakh and Yehudi Menuhin, I didn't imagine hearing again in my lifetime a sound gifted with such incandescence." -Bruno Monsaingeon