Geyer's copy of the manuscript was bequeathed to Paul Sacher to be performed by him and Hansheinz Schneeberger.
Acclaimed recordings include Oistrakh with Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting, as well as versions by Maxim Vengerov and György Pauk.
The composition strays from the path of the traditional concerto, having two rather than three movements: Far from being an innovation, the two-movement form is the traditional design of the rhapsody: a slow movement followed by a fast one.
2") has met with some resistance, especially from Hungarian scholars and musicologists, on grounds that the composer had "annulled" this concerto, not only by excluding it from his list of mature works but also by extracting the first movement and reworking it in 1911 as the first of Two Portraits, Op.
The objection has also been made that, even though an early String Quartet, composed in Pozsony (Bratislava), and an early Sonata for Violin and Piano have been published, the traditional numberings of the String Quartets and the Violin Sonatas have not been changed (Újfalussy 1971, 355–356).