The work has had a good many champions over the last few decades: Vilde Frang recorded it in 2012; Eugene Fodor in 2002; Nikolaj Znaider in 2001; and Maxim Vengerov in 1996; In 1990, Cho-Liang Lin recorded it, with LA Phil conductor laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen at the baton, no less!