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... |
50 BEST VIOLIN
50 Best Violin [3 CDs special price] Various Artists including Ida Haendel, Gidon Kremer, Augustin Dumay, Maxim Vengerov, Sarah Chang, Yehudi Menuhin, etc [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2019 ] All the very best violin works performed by leading violinists of today. CD 1 is a collection of Baroque and Classical period recordings. CD 2 features romantic concertos and works from the 19th century. CD 3 is a selection of encores and showpieces. |
Yehudi Menuhin
The Album (Performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) [ CD ] |
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. |
Yehudi Menuhin
Bach: 3 Solo Sonatas/Partitas [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 2/Apr/2001 ] |
Yehudi Menuhin
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas Vol.2 [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2001 ] |
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... |
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. |
BEETHOVEN / FRANCK / LEKEU
Beethoven / Franck / Lekeu - Violin Sonatas Yehudi Menuhin, violin / Hephzibah Menuhin, piano [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 27/Jul/2005 ] Collectors always have a soft spot for gramophone premières. Yehudi and Hephzibah Menuhin were the first to record the large-scale Sonata in G major by the tragic Belgian composer Guillaume Lekeu (1870-94), who died a day after his 24th birthday, and... |
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. |
BERNSTEIN
Symphony No 3 / Chichester Psalms karita Mattila (soprano) Yehudi Menuhin (speaker) / Maitrise de Radio france / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio Fance [ Warner Maestro / CD - released 7/Apr/2008 ] Bernstein struggled for years with his third symphony, "Kaddish," for narrator, soprano soloist, chorus, children's chorus, and orchestra. Kaddish is a prayer used in services of mourning that at the same time praises God's greatness. The central... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms/Schumann: Violin Sonatas (Menuhin) (1934-1940) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Hephzibah Menuhin (piano) [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 3/Mar/2002 ] |
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... |
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 |
ELGAR
Cello Concerto / Nursery Suite / Chanson du matin Yoohong Lee (cello) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Yehudi menuhin (cond) [ Royal Philharmonic / SACD - released 10/Apr/2006 ] The world's largest-ever classical recording contract with one of the most outstanding orchestras, was begun in September 1993 and has been built into a collection of over 150 albums of the world's best classical music. |
BEETHOVEN / MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN / SCHUBERT / WAGNER / FRANCK / etc
The complete Wilhelm Furtwangler on record Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Edwin Fisher (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler [ Warner Classics / 55 CD Box Set - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Wilhelm Furtwängler is a musical titan, one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century. Some would say he is the greatest of all. A supreme, inimitable interpreter of the Austro-German symphonic repertoire, and of Wagner's music dramas. |
RAVI SHANKAR
Ravi Shankar Edition Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin, Jean-Pierre Rampal / London Symphony & Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn, Zubin Mehta [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Including performances from Zubin Mehta, Yehudi Menhuin, Andre Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra, these pioneering, visionary works come together to form an inspiring whole. |
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. |