Review: Szigeti's Wise and Vital Mercury Masters

This 6-disc box offers a splendid overview of the twilight years of one of the 20th century's great violin masters. In addition to concertos by Beethoven, Brahms and Prokofiev, we have sonatas and chamber works by Brahms, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Honegger, Webern, Debussy, Ives and Bartók--an astounding legacy and a tribute to the artist known as "the thinking man's virtuoso."