Yehudi Menuhin - The Complete American Victor Recordings Yehudi Menuhin

• 1 I. Allegro non troppo 07:29
• 2 II. Scherzando - Allegro molto 04:05
• 3 III. Intermezzo - Allegretto non troppo 05:53
• 4 IV. Andante 06:21
• 5 V. Rondo - Allegro 08:02
• 6 I. Vorspiel - Allegro moderato 07:45
• 7 II. Adagio 07:59
• 8 III. Finale - Allegro energico - Presto 06:41
• 9 I. Vorspiel - Allegro moderato 07:52
• 10 II. Adagio 07:46
• 11 III. Finale - Allegro energico - Presto 06:57
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847): Violin Concerto in D Minor, MWV 03
• 12 I. Allegro molto 08:54
• 13 II. Andante 08:28
• 14 III. Allegro 06:04
• Béla Bartók (1881-1945): Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz. 112
• 15 I. Allegro non troppo 15:40
• 16 II. Andante tranquillo 09:31
• 17 III. Allegro molto 11:37
• Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, Sz. 75
• 18 I. Allegro appassionato 11:49
• 19 II. Adagio 10:02
• 20 III. Allegro molto 09:09
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Sonata for Harpsichord and Violin No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016
• 21 I. Adagio 06:09
• 22 II. Allegro 03:32
• 23 III. Adagio ma non tanto 06:06
• 24 IV. Allegro 04:13
• Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
• 25 Salut d'amour, Op. 12 02:33
• Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
• 26 La fille aux cheveux de lin 02:30
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
• 27 Orchestral Suite in D Major No. 3, BWV 1068: II. Air 03:30
• Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
• 28 Ave Maria, D. 839 04:52
• Violin Sonata in D Major, D. 384, Op. 137/1
• 29 I. Allegro molto 03:56
• 30 II. Andante 03:57
• 31 III. Allegro vivace 03:40
• 32 I. Allegro moderato 07:24
• 33 II. Scherzo - Presto 03:24
• 34 III. Andantino 03:32
• 35 IV. Allegro vivace 04:27
• 36 6 Songs, Op. 4, No. 3: In the Silence of the Secret Night 02:49
• 37 Xerxes, HWV 40, Act I: May the Fates be Kind Ombra mai fu 03:42
• 38 I. Allegro 06:44
• 39 II. Adagio molto espressivo 05:47
• 40 III. Scherzo - Allegro molto 01:02
• 41 IV. Rondo - Allegro ma non troppo 05:54
• 42 I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto 10:53
• 43 II. Andante con variazioni 13:51
• 44 III. Finale - Presto 05:56
• 45 Hungarian Dance No. 4 in B Minor, WoO 1/4 03:32
• 46 La Capricciosa 02:32
• 47 Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in G Major, Op. 1/1: Allegro 02:46
• 48 16th Century Melody: La Romanesca 03:39
• 49 Sierra Morena 04:34
• 50 Scotch Pastorale, Op. 130/2 03:49
• 51 Te Deum in D, HWV 283 Dettingen: Prayer 04:09
• 52 Baal Shem: Three Pictures of Chassidic Life: II. Nigun (Improvisation) 06:26
• 53 Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216: II. Adagio 04:33
• 54 I. Sarabande 01:53
• 55 II. Tambourin 02:38
• 56 Chant d'Espagne 03:47
• 57 La canción del olvido 01:58
• 58 Duo Concertant for 2 Violins in D Major, Op. 67/2: III. Rondo - Vivace 01:28
• 59 Scherzo-Tarantelle in G Minor, Op. 16 04:09
• 60 Slavonic Dance in D Major, Op. 46, No. 6 03:56
• 61 Slavonic Dance in G Minor, Op. 46, No. 8 03:30
• Total Runtime 05:47:46

Info for Yehudi Menuhin - The Complete American Victor Recordings

Between his birth in New York on 22 April 1916 and his death in Berlin on 12 March 1999, Yehudi Menuhin, the son of humble Russian immigrants, grew from a brilliant child prodigy violinist, who made his public concert début in San Francisco in 1924, aged just 7, into not just one of the 20th century s finest and most celebrated artists (as a conductor as well as a soloist), but also a peace campaigner, civil rights activist, spiritual guru and revered senior statesman of the musical world, who ended his days as the Right Honourable the Lord Menuhin of Stoke d Abernon, with a seat in the House of Lords, yet also found time to establish two music schools, a violin competition and an international scheme for taking music out of the concert hall and into the wider community.

Now, to celebrate Yehudi Menuhin s centenary in 2016, Sony Classical is releasing Yehudi Menuhin The Complete American Victor Recordings, a 6-album set bringing together legendary early recordings by this titan among 20th-century violinists.

Gems of the set include the first ever releases in any format of two previously unpublished items: the December 1949 recordings of Beethoven s Spring and Kreutzer Sonatas with Menuhin s sister Hephzibah at the piano.

Also included are the first official releases (all transferred from the original analogue mastertapes) of Mendelssohn s teenage D minor Violin Concerto (a work that Menuhin himself rescued from oblivion, buying and editing the surviving manuscript and premièring it at Carnegie Hall in February 1952, two days before making this recording), Bach s Sonata No. 3 (a historic 1944 recording with the legendary Polish harpsichordist Wanda Landowska) and Bartók s Sonata No. 1 (a vividly intense 1947 account of a work that Menuhin had played for the composer himself just four years earlier and in which the violinist is impressively abetted by the pianist Adolph Baller, a Polish-born musician who was Menuhin s regular accompanist and chamber music partner from 1939 until after WW2, despite having had all his fingers broken by Nazi torturers in Vienna before his escape from Europe). Also making its first official appearance on CD is a 1951 account of Bruch s ever-popular Concerto No. 1 with Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony (Menuhin‘s only collaboration on disc with the Alsatian violinist turned conductor), which sits alongside Menuhin s better-known 1945 recording of the same work with Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony and his 1946 première recording of Bartók s Violin Concerto No. 2 with Antal Doráti and the Dallas Symphony. The set also includes the first ever CD release of two songs (Rachmaninoff s In the Silent Night and Handel s Ombra mai fu ) with the leading Metropolitan Opera baritone Robert Merrill.

Finally, a special disc in the set couples newly remastered versions of the very first (1928) recordings that the 11-year-old Menuhin ever made a set of stylishly played encore items, with his beloved teacher Louis Persinger at the piano with previously unreleased encore pieces by Kreisler and Wieniawski from 1929.

Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Pierre Monteux, conductor
Charles Munch, conductor
Antal Dorati, conductor

Digitally remastered

Yehudi Menuhin
Lasting for nearly 70 years, Lord Menuhin's contract with EMI was the longest in the history of the music industry. In November 1929, at the age of 13, he made his first recordings for the Company in London, and he made his last recording shortly before his death in 1999, when he conducted the Sinfonia Varsovia in Beethoven's Piano Concertos with François-René Duchâble as the soloist.

In total Menuhin recorded over 300 works for EMI as both violinist and conductor. Menuhin's range was unique, including all of the main classical works for violin as well as collaborations with Stéphane Grappelli and Ravi Shankar.

Throughout his life Menuhin was concerned with education and humanitarian causes. He always made a point of putting these concerns into practical action, which included the founding in 1963 of the Yehudi Menuhin School at Stoke d'Abernon in Surrey, a boarding school for young talented musicians whose ex-pupils include Nigel Kennedy. In 1977 he also founded the International Menuhin Music Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland for young graduate string players.

In 1977 he founded Live Music Now, a charity which encourages young musicians to perform in hospitals, churches, schools and prisons. Lord Menuhin was also patron of the Music Sound Foundation, an independent charity set up by EMI to mark its centenary in 1997.

During World War II Menuhin gave more than 500 concerts for the Armed Forces. When hostilities ceased, he continued to give concerts for displaced persons around Europe and saw for himself the horrors of the concentration camps, an experience that moved him greatly. In recognition of his musical and humanitarian achievements he was awarded many international honours including the Legion d'Honneur and the Croix de Lorraine from France; the Order of Merit from Germany; the Ordre Leopold and Ordre de la Couronne from Belgium. In 1960 Menuhin received the Nehru Peace Prize for International Understanding from the Prime Minister of India. Other honours include the Royal Philharmonic Society's Gold Medal and the Cobbett Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

In 1965 he was given an honorary knighthood (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II (which became a formal knighthood in 1985 when he was granted honorary British citizenship) and in 1987 he became a member of the highly select Order of Merit (OM). In 1993 he was awarded a Life Peerage, becoming Lord Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon. He was an honorary doctor of twenty universities, including Oxford, Cambridge and the University of St. Andrews; he was a Freeman of the Cities of Edinburgh, Bath, Reims and Warsaw and was the holder of the Gold Medals of the Cities of Paris, New York and Jerusalem. In 1992 he was honoured with the title of Ambassador of Goodwill to Unesco.

Active right up to the very end of his life, Lord Menuhin died on 12 March 1999 in Berlin, where he was to have conducted a concert.

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