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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... |
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Yehudi Menuhin & Ravi Shankar
West Meets East (LP) [ Warner Classics / LP - released 25/Mar/2016 ] Perhaps the most moving and exciting quality of Indian music is the innocence of its rapture, the ecstatic and spontaneous delight which binds performers and audience alike. However sophisticated the means, however complex the structure, not one... |
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BACH / BARTOK / BLOCH / GERSHWIN / MOZART / WALTON / etc
The Menuhin Century - The Historic Recordings Yehudi Menuhin (violin) with Stephane Grappelli & others [ Warner Classics The Menuhin Century / 18 CD Box Set - released 6/Apr/2016 ] This box illustrates Menuhin's historic role as a musician through recordings such as: the legendary Elgar Violin Concerto with the composer conducting; historical concerts, such as the re-opening of the Opéra de Paris two months after Paris... |
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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. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies / Concertos / German Requiem Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Edwin Fisher (piano) / Stockholm Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furt [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 24/Aug/2018 ] 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." |
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / ELGAR / MOZART / SCHUBERT / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
The Menuhin Century - The Complete Recordings with Hephzibah Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Hephzibah Menuhin (piano) [ Warner Classics The Menuhin Century / 20 CD Box Set - released 6/Apr/2016 ] The pianist Hephzibah Menuhin (1920-1981), Yehudi's younger sister, was a brilliant musician in her own right, with a fascinating life story. For the first time, this boxed set shines light on Hephzibah's lifelong role in Menuhin's own musical... |
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BACH / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / LECLAIR / TARTINI / etc
The Menuhin Century - The Unpublished & Rarities Yehudi Menuhin (violin) with Gerald Moore & others [ Warner Classics The Menuhin Century / 22 CD Box Set - released 6/Apr/2016 ] Unpublished material and recordings previously unreleased on CD by EMI or Warner. This box includes Menuhin's first recordings (USA, 1928), and recordings from as late as 1981. |
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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... |
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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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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. |
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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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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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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: MASTERPIECE Beethoven Martha Modl (soprano), Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Academy St Martin-in-the-Fields [ EMI Studio / CD - released 10/Feb/1990 ] This CD contains all the most familiar and best-loved works by the Ludwig van Beethoven, performed by a galaxy of star musicans. |
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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. |
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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. |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel - Organ Concertos Nos.1-10 Simon Preston (organ) / Menuhin Festival Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin [ EMI Double Forte / 2 CD - released 16/May/2002 ] "...there is no doubting that this set is at present the best to be had" Gramophone |
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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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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 ] |
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Yehudi Menuhin
Bach: 3 Solo Sonatas/Partitas [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 2/Apr/2001 ] |