Yehudi Menuhin - The Complete American Victor Recordings Yehudi Menuhin

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Album-Release:
2016

HRA-Release:
22.03.2016

Label: Sony Classical

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

Artist: Yehudi Menuhin

Composer: Edouard Lalo (1823-1892), Max Bruch (1838-1920), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Johannes Brahms

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  • Edouard Lalo (1823-1892): Symphonie espagnole pour violon et orchestre in D Minor, Op. 21
  • 1I. Allegro non troppo07:29
  • 2II. Scherzando - Allegro molto04:05
  • 3III. Intermezzo - Allegretto non troppo05:53
  • 4IV. Andante06:21
  • 5V. Rondo - Allegro08:02
  • Max Bruch (1838-1920): Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26
  • 6I. Vorspiel - Allegro moderato07:45
  • 7II. Adagio07:59
  • 8III. Finale - Allegro energico - Presto06:41
  • 9I. Vorspiel - Allegro moderato07:52
  • 10II. Adagio07:46
  • 11III. Finale - Allegro energico - Presto06:57
  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847): Violin Concerto in D Minor, MWV 03
  • 12I. Allegro molto08:54
  • 13II. Andante08:28
  • 14III. Allegro06:04
  • Béla Bartók (1881-1945): Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz. 112
  • 15I. Allegro non troppo15:40
  • 16II. Andante tranquillo09:31
  • 17III. Allegro molto11:37
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, Sz. 75
  • 18I. Allegro appassionato11:49
  • 19II. Adagio10:02
  • 20III. Allegro molto09:09
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Sonata for Harpsichord and Violin No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016
  • 21I. Adagio06:09
  • 22II. Allegro03:32
  • 23III. Adagio ma non tanto06:06
  • 24IV. Allegro04:13
  • Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
  • 25Salut d'amour, Op. 1202:33
  • Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
  • 26La fille aux cheveux de lin02:30
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
  • 27Orchestral Suite in D Major No. 3, BWV 1068: II. Air03:30
  • Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
  • 28Ave Maria, D. 83904:52
  • Violin Sonata in D Major, D. 384, Op. 137/1
  • 29I. Allegro molto03:56
  • 30II. Andante03:57
  • 31III. Allegro vivace03:40
  • 32I. Allegro moderato07:24
  • 33II. Scherzo - Presto03:24
  • 34III. Andantino03:32
  • 35IV. Allegro vivace04:27
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
  • 366 Songs, Op. 4, No. 3: In the Silence of the Secret Night02:49
  • Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
  • 37Xerxes, HWV 40, Act I: May the Fates be Kind Ombra mai fu03:42
  • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 Spring
  • 38I. Allegro06:44
  • 39II. Adagio molto espressivo05:47
  • 40III. Scherzo - Allegro molto01:02
  • 41IV. Rondo - Allegro ma non troppo05:54
  • Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 Kreutzer
  • 42I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto10:53
  • 43II. Andante con variazioni13:51
  • 44III. Finale - Presto05:56
  • Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
  • 45Hungarian Dance No. 4 in B Minor, WoO 1/403:32
  • Franz Ries (1846-1932)
  • 46La Capricciosa02:32
  • Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703-1741)
  • 47Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in G Major, Op. 1/1: Allegro02:46
  • Traditional:
  • 4816th Century Melody: La Romanesca03:39
  • Jesus de Monasterio (1836-1903)
  • 49Sierra Morena04:34
  • Gustav Sänger (1865-1975)
  • 50Scotch Pastorale, Op. 130/203:49
  • Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
  • 51Te Deum in D, HWV 283 Dettingen: Prayer04:09
  • Ernst Bloch (1885-1977)
  • 52Baal Shem: Three Pictures of Chassidic Life: II. Nigun (Improvisation)06:26
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
  • 53Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216: II. Adagio04:33
  • Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
  • 54I. Sarabande01:53
  • 55II. Tambourin02:38
  • Gustave Samazeuilh (1877-1967)
  • 56Chant d'Espagne03:47
  • Emilio Serrano (1850-1939)
  • 57La canción del olvido01:58
  • Ludwig Spohr (1784-1859)
  • 58Duo Concertant for 2 Violins in D Major, Op. 67/2: III. Rondo - Vivace01:28
  • Henri Wieniawski (1835-1880)
  • 59Scherzo-Tarantelle in G Minor, Op. 1604:09
  • Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
  • 60Slavonic Dance in D Major, Op. 46, No. 603:56
  • 61Slavonic Dance in G Minor, Op. 46, No. 803:30
  • Total Runtime05:47:46

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

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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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