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The history of Yehudi Menuhin’s recording of the Schumann Violin Concerto is probably as captivating as the actual performance he committed to disc in February
Between 1945 and 1981 Yehudi Menuhin recorded the Beethoven concerto a remarkable 10 times. His best known traversals are those under Furtwängler and the 1966
Those who claim that Yehudi Menuhin’s violin playing reached its technical apogee during his teens will get no argument from these quarters. His Bach recordings
The young Yehudi Menuhin made the first integral recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, half of which are reissued here. I reviewed the entire cycle
One famous American violinist described Yehudi Menuhin’s playing to me as an example of “mind over reality.” This sadly applies to this 1963 Bach E
This second volume of “Reiner Era” historical recordings, available direct from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, contains several significant additions to his repertoire, including an intensely
Yehudi Menuhin was still in his teens when he made the first complete recordings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for HMV. While Menuhin remade the
The teenaged Yehudi Menuhin’s Bach concerto recordings were first transferred to CD by EMI in the late 1980s and have also surfaced on numerous independent
First the good news: Yehudi Menuhin and Wanda Landowska’s powerfully inflected Bach E major Sonata, recorded in 1945, has never sounded better on disc. Andrew
None of the material on this compilation has circulated beyond the scope of Japanese and Russian imports. Disc One’s centerpiece is a 1945 broadcast of
