More By Artist: Yehudi Menuhin
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Symphonies, Ein deutsches Requiem & Concertos Berlin & Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, Wilhelm Furtwangler, with Yehudi Menuhin, Edwin Fisher, Willi Boskovsky, etc [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] Wilhelm Furtwängler saw "a wild, fantastic and even demonic universe" in the symphonies of Brahms. "Music is not something that is invented and constructed," he wrote, "but something that grows, emerging … directly from the hands of nature." With... |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / SCHUMANN / MOZART / LISZT
The Klemperer Legacy: Concertos Daniel Barenboim (piano), Alan Civil (horn), Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Philharmonia & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ EMI The Klemperer Legacy / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2013 ] Although Klemperer had primarily been contracted to provide orchestral music for the EMI Classics catalogue there were soloists who benefitted from his presence in recording concertos. |
MENDELSSOHN / BRUCH / BARTOK / SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN / etc
Yehudi Menuhin - The Complete American Victor Recordings Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Wanda Landowska, with Robert Merrill, Theodore Saidenberg / Pierre Monteux, Charles Munch, Antal Dorati [ RCA Red Seal / Sony Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2019 ] Yehudi Menuhin - The Complete American Victor Recordings, a 6-CD set bringing together legendary early recordings by this violin legend. Gems from this set include the first ever releases in any format of two previously unpublished items. |
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MOZART / SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN / BARTOK / MENDELSSOHN / CHOPIN / etc
Hephzibah Menuhin - Homage [9 CDs plus 2 DVDs] Hephzibah Menuhin (piano) with Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Janet Baker, Maurice Gendron, Amadeus Quartet, Sydney String Quartet, etc [ Warner Classics CDs/DVDs / 11 CD/DVD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] "An independent spirit, a gracious, generous woman who was also deserving of a place among the great pianists of the 20th century." Hephzibah Menuhin is summed up in those word by Bruno Monsaingeon, who was close to both her and her dazzlingly famous... |
MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / BEETHOVEN / MAHLER / etc
Idil Biret Best of Chamber Music - With Selections from the Complete Studio Recordings Idil Biret (piano), with Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Borusan Quartet; London String Quartet [ Naxos Idil Biret Archive / 4 CD Box Set - released 4/Dec/2020 ] From the age of 16, Idil Biret played as a soloist with the most distinguished orchestras in the world including the London Symphony, the Philharmonia, the London Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, and many others. |
HAYDN / BEETHOVEN
Scottish Folk Song Arrangements / English Songs Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), with Yehudi Menuhin, George Malcolm, Ross Pople, Robert Spencer & others [ Testament / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "'A Pageant of English Song' was Baker's first solo LP for EMI. Side 1, in which she's accompanied by Martin Isepp and Robert Spencer, is reissued on this CD. (Gramophone Classical Music Guide) |
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EDVARD GRIEG
Greig: Piano, Orchestral & Vocal Works, Chamber Music Leif Ove Andsnes, Cyprien Katsaris, Juhani Lagerspetz, Gerald Moore, Geoffrey Parsons, Yehudi Menuhin, Truls Mørk, Kirsten Flagstad, Paavo Jarvi, etc [ Erato / Warner Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 12/Jun/2020 ] "Jarvi junior follows in father's footsteps with a worthwhile disc of Peer Gynt" (Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine August 2005 for Peer Gynt) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lily Laskine: The Complete Erato & HMV Recordings Lily Laskine (harp) with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Maurice Andre, Yehudi Menuhin, Marie-Claire Alain & others [ Erato / Warner Classics Icon / 14 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2014 ] The harpist Lily Laskine (1893-1988) was a popular and influential figure whose name was particularly closely identified with the Erato label, although she also recorded for EMI. |
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WAGNER
The Wagner Anthology: Includes excerpts from The Flying Dutchman, Lohenfrin, Die Meistersinger & Der Ring Des Nibelungen Lionel Rogg, Simon Preston (organs) Lily Laskine (harp) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Franz Crass (bass) [ EMI Seraphim / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2010 ] |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Violin Concertos / Solo Partita in D minor Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, George Enescu [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 21/Aug/2015 ] Bach's music was central to the life and career of Yehudi Menuhin, and the violinist is captured in his full early bloom in these performances from the 1930s. Joining the teenage Menuhin in the first and most celebrated of his four recordings of the... |
BEETHOVEN / MENDELSSOHN
Beethoven / Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 21/Aug/2015 ] Yehudi Menuhin and Wilhelm Furtwängler shared the same philosophical and spiritual approach to making music. This, their second recording of the work, was made in London in 1953, the year after they recorded the Mendelssohn Concerto in Berlin. |
BACH / BARTOK / BRITTEN / BRAHMS / PAGANINI / SCHUMANN / etc
The Menuhin Century - Live Performances and Festival Recordings Yehudi Menuhin (violin) [ Warner Classics The Menuhin Century / 7 CD Box Set - released 6/Apr/2016 ] Live recordings dating from the years between 1940 and 1969 at venues including Carnegie Hall, New York, Prades Festival in Spain, and halls in Israel and Rumania, and recordings with the Bath Festival Orchestra, which he established in 1959. |
GERSHWIN / KERN / PORTER / ROGERS & HART / GADE / etc
Play... Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli (violins) [ EMI Gemini / 2 CD - released 12/Nov/2004 ] Today it does not look in the least absurd, but in the early 1970s it seemed strange to match a self-taught, somewhat unorthodox jazz violinist who came to prominence with the guitarist Django Reinhardt and the Quintette du Hot Club de France with a... |
ELGAR
Enigma Variations Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin & Barry Wordsworth [ Alto / CD - released 11/Sep/2015 ] Menuhin's account of the Variations... is the interpretation of a musician who has lived long with this music and loves it. He ...takes immense care (to) direct the listener to yet another facet of this inexhaustibly fascinating score. |
DVORAK
Dvorak Jubilee set Various artists incls Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind, Ruggiero Ricci (violin) [ Brilliant Classics Masterworks / 10 CD - released 16/Dec/2006 ] All composers are represented by some of their best known works. Also included are some pieces one might not expect. Performances are by prominent musicians. Some of the recordings were made as recent as only a few months ago. |
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100 BEST ROMANTIC CLASSICS
100 Best Romantic Classics [6 CD special price] Various performers incls Leif Ove Andsnes, Martha Argerich, Charles Dutoit, Julian Bream, Montserrat Caballe, Yehudi Menuhin, etc [ EMI / Virgin / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2012 ] This 6 CD set contains an unrivalled collection of 100 favourite romantic classics, performed by some of the world's leading artists. Among them are the singers Maria Callas, Natalie Dessay, Angela Gheorghiu. Barbara Hendricks, Luciano Pavarotti and... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / RICHARD WAGNER / FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Furtwangler: Brahms/Wagner/Mendelssohn (Commercial Recordings 1940-50 Volume 6) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] All recordings from 1949 |
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Yehudi Menuhin
The Album (Performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) [ CD ] |
