Yehudi Menuhin – Anniversary Edition (Live) / Rudolf Barshai / Evgeny Svetlanov / The Moscow Chamber Orchestra / The USSR State Symphony Orchestra (6CD)

For the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yehudi Menuhin, one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, Firma Melodiya presents a set of historic recordings of his concerts in Moscow in 1945 and 1962. Yehudi Menuhin had a special place had in store for him in the constellation of brilliant violinists of the previous century. He gave his first concert when he was seven years old, debuted with an orchestra at ten, and became famous across the world after his triumphant debut in Berlin at thirteen. Despite the hand illness he went through at the height of his performing career, Menuhin continued to perform as actively until the late 1980s. “As the years go by, his art is getting warmer and more humane, continuing to remain wise in Menuhin’s way,” wrote Lev Raaben, a Soviet researcher of violin art.

曲目:
CD1
Cesar Franck
1. Violin Sonata in A major, FWV 8    
Claude Debussy
Violin Sonata in G minor, L. 140
2. Ernest Bloch
Nigun (improvisation) from the suite Baal Shem (1923)
3. Bela Bartok
Romanian Folk Dances (1925) (arr. by Zoltan Szekely)

CD2    
Camille Saint-Saens
1. Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
Ottokar Novacek
2. Perpetuum mobile, Op. 5 No. 4
Pablo de Sarasate
3. Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs), Op. 20
Antonin Dvorak
4. Slavonic Dance No. 10, Op. 72 No. 2 (arr. by Fritz Kreisler)
Claude Debussy
5. La Fille aux cheveux de lin (No. 8) (arr. by Arthur Hartmann)
Johan Sebastian Bach
6.Chaconne from the Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004

CD3
1. Adagio from the Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
2. Violin Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006

Ludwig van Beethoven
3. Presto from the Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Kreutzer Sonata, Op. 47
4. Violin Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96

CD4
Bela Bartok
1. Violin Sonata No. 1, Sz. 75 / BB 84
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2. Presto from the Violin Sonata in A major, KV 526
3. Adagio from the Violin Sonata in E flat major, KV 481

CD5
Johann Sebastian Bach
1. Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
2. Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
3. Oboe Concerto in D minor, BWV 1060R
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4. Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, KV 219

CD6
Johannes Brahms
1. Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
Ludwig van Beethoven
2. Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61