Special offer. Mozart: Violin Concertos
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Special offer. Mozart: Violin Concertos
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
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Menuhin’s Mozart performances are warm-toned and full of feeling... This is a fine interpretation
About
This release has been sourced from the Richard Itter archive of ‘live’ recordings. The celebrated violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) was very familiar with the Mozart Concertos, and played all seven including the spurious No.6 concerto. These ‘live’ performances reflect Menuhin’s Mozart playing during a single month in 1956 where he performed all the composer’s major works with orchestra (missing here are No.5, K.219 and the ‘Sixth Concerto’ supposedly by Johann Friedrich Eck). Menuhin brings great insight and experience to every concerto and his intonation which became a concern in later life is spot on with these performances. In the Penguin Guide’s review of the Mozart Concertos on EMI, recorded in the early 1960s, we hear: ‘One is always conscious that this is phrasing from a master musician...these performances give an engaging sense of musicians making intimate music together for the joy of it’.
Contents and tracklist
- Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Malcolm Sargent
- Recorded: 11 January 1956
- Recording Venue: BBC Studios, Maida Vale, United Kingdom
- Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Alfred Wallenstein
- Recorded: 14 January 1956
- Recording Venue: BBC Studios, Maida Vale, United Kingdom
- Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
- London Mozart Players
- Harry Blech
- Recorded: 19 January 1956
- Recording Venue: BBC Studios, Maida Vale, United Kingdom
- Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
- London Mozart Players
- Harry Blech
- Recorded: 21 January 1956
- Recording Venue: BBC Studios, Maida Vale, United Kingdom
- Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
- London Mozart Players
- Harry Blech
- Recorded: 19 January 1956
- Recording Venue: BBC Studios, Maida Vale, United Kingdom
Awards and reviews
classicalsource.com February 2020
Menuhin’s Mozart performances are warm-toned and full of feeling... This is a fine interpretation