"I tried to be mindful of the history of the violin that had come into my hands courtesy of the FBI, the Totenberg family, an anonymous benefactor, and Rare Violins of New York. This 1734 Stradivarius had been stolen from Roman Totenberg after a 1980 recital at the Longy School of Music and found, some thirty-five years later, locked under a tarp in a California basement...."

-- from the Sleeve Notes