Yehudi Menuhin
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Special offer. Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio
RecommendedMattiwilda Dobbs (Constanza), Nicolai Gedda (Belmonte), Jenifer Eddy (Blonda), John Fryatt (Pedrillo), Noel Mangin (Osmin), David Kelsey (Pasha Selim)
Ambrosian Singers, The Bath Festival Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin
Menuhin's set of The Abduction from the Seraglio in English makes the performance sparkle from first to last, favouring brisk, well-lifted Allegros, so that the fun of the piece comes over vividly...[the... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Elgar Remastered
By Lani Spahr
Beatrice Harrison (cello), Princess Victoria H.R.H. (piano), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), New Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Festival Choir, Sir Edward Elgar, Lawrance Collingwood
So many details in the First Symphony stand out as never before. —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, Orchestral Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Yehudi Menuhin: The Great Violin Concertos
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Bath Festival Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe, Constantini Silvestri, Walter Susskind, Efrem Kurtz, Sir Edward Elgar
He was a child prodigy whose early virtuosity blossomed into genius, unmatched throughout his life by any of his contemporaries……...He was one of the greatest violinists of the century. —
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Debussy: The Complete Works
Artists include Martha Argerich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Samson François, Renaud Capuçon, Natalie Dessay, André Cluytens, François-Xavier Roth, Jean Martinon, Michel Plasson, Kent Nagano and Carlo Maria Giulini
Exhaustive, the sum of the crème de la crème of the discography...THE Debussy box set to have…No richer panorama exists for the melodies (the complete EMI recordings alongside never-before-released... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Archive
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British Composers: A Celebration
RecommendedRichard Rodney Bennett (piano), Ian Hare (piano), Robert Tear (vocals), Sir Andrew Davis (piano), Bruce Russell (vocals), Richard Lewis (vocals), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Lewis Thomas (vocals), Geoffrey Walls (baritone), John Hauxwell (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Wilfred Brown...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Beethoven: 7 Sonates pour violon et piano (Les indispensables de Diapason)
Rudolf Firkusny, Nathan Milstein, Robert Casadesus, Zino Francescatti, Rudolf Serkin, Adolf Busch, Lili Kraus, Szymon Goldberg, Erica Morini, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Jascha Heifetz, Hephzibah Menuhin, Yehudi Menuhin
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Indispensable
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West Meets East
RecommendedYehudi Menuhin (violin), Amiya Dasgupta (tambura), Nodu Mulli (tambura), Alla Rakha (tabla), Ravi Shankar (sitar), Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
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Grammy Awards, 10th Awards (1967), Best Chamber Music Recording
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The Glory Tree
Chamber Works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Nicholas Daniel (oboe, cor anglais), Nadia Wijzenbeek (violin), Ylvali Zilliacus (viola), Marie Macleod (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano), Natalia Lomeiko (violin), Leonid Gorokhov (solo cello), Catriona Scott (clarinet), Natalie Raybould (soprano)
Ensemble na Mara, Lenvai String Trio, Instrumentalists...
Frances-Hoad's allegiances are to mainstream modernism, rather than the various popular post-modernist 'isms'. Her compositions may tend towards the sternly ascetic, but they are full of feeling... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, Chamber Choice
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Mendelssohn & Brahms: Violin Concertos
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
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Elgar: Violin Concerto & Enigma Variations
RecommendedYehudi Menuhin (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra & Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, Sir Edward Elgar
a passing of the musical baton from one generation to the next if ever there was one, and a very moving one at that. Elgar's reading is an aptly broad, reflective one, while Menuhin's playing... —
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Building a Library, July 2001, Historic Choice
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