 The theme itself was originally used as the basis for a set of variations in its original context as the 24th and last of the solo violin caprices. That recording was made in London, 1986. The Philharmonia Orchestra performed, I erroneously said the Concertgebouw before, but that's for a different piece on this disc. Bernard Heiting, the conductor, and the pianist, who has played a couple of Rachmaninoff pieces already, Vladimir Ashkenazi.