Kreisler’s playing style can be characterised as intense with a strong vibrato. His expressive use of portamenti (slides) hark back to an earlier era and he was criticised early in his career by Carl Flesch. Like Stokowski, Kreisler’s arrangements and ‘improvements’ of the classics have also been criticised, but others consider these arrangements to be small gems of perfection. Some find his own compositions overly sentimental and quaint, but his own recordings of these pieces are remarkably free from schmalz. Fritz Kreisler: Encores 1926-38 (arranged, composed & more) 1926 with Arpád Sándor (piano) [1] May Breeze (Mendelssohn: Songs without Words)*K 2:39 1926-8 with Carl Lamson (piano) [2] Deep in My Heart, Dear (Romberg)*K 3:14 [3] At Dawning (Cadman) 2:36 [4] En Bateau (Debussy/arr. Choisnel)) 3:08 [5] The Girl with Flaxen Hair (Debussy/arr. Hartmann) 2:26 [6] Ruralia - Molto vivace (exc) (Dohnányi) 2:05 [7] Mighty lak’ a Rose (Trad.)*K 2:11 [8] The Rosary (Nevin)*K 2:02 [9] Indian Lament (Dvořák)*K 4:23 [10] Songs My Mother Taught Me (Dvořák)*K 2:40 [11] Blue Skies (Irving Berlin)*K 3:37 1927 &1930 with Michael Raucheisen (piano) [12] Syncopation (Kreisler)[Trio MR also Hugo Kreisler, cello] 1927 1:58 [13] Marche Miniature Viennoise (Kreisler) [Trio with Hugo] 1927 2:55 [14] Intermezzo 2nd Suite L'Arlesienne (Bizet)*K [Trio, 1927] 4:30 [15] Chanson de Louis X111 (Kreisler in style of Couperin) 3:38 [16] Ballet de Rosamunde (Schubert)*K 2:59 [17] Polichinelle/Pulcinella - Serenade (Kreisler) 2:19 [18] Serenade Espangole (Glazunov)*K 2:37 [19] The Old Refrain (Brandl)*K 3:10 [20] Scherzo alla Dittersdorf (Kreisler in style of ) [Kreisler Quartet: Thomas Petre, William Primrose and Lauri Kennedy] (1935) 3:20 1936-8 with Franz Rupp (piano) [21] Hymn to the Sun (Rimsky-Korsakov- Le Coq d’Or)*K 4:00 [22] Spanish Dance (Falla-La Vida Breve)*K 3:30 [23] Song of India (Rimsky-Korsakov -Sadko)*K 3:15 [24] Dancing Doll (Poldini)*K 2:25 [25] La Gitana (Kreisler) 3:09 [26] Tambourin Chinois (Kreisler) 3:25