Yehudi Menuhin: The Complete American Victor Recordings | Sony 88875198542

Yehudi Menuhin: The Complete American Victor Recordings

Label: Sony

Cat No: 88875198542

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 6

Release Date: 25th March 2016

Contents

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Orchestral Suite no.3 in D major, BWV1068
» II Air 'Air on the G string'
Violin Sonata no.3 in E major, BWV1016

Bartok, Bela

Violin Concerto no.2, Sz112 BB117
Violin Sonata no.1, Sz75 BB84, op.21

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Violin Sonata no.5 in F major, op.24 'Spring'
Violin Sonata no.9 in A major, op.47 'Kreutzer'

Bloch, Ernest

Baal Shem
» no.2 Nigun

Bruch, Max

Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor, op.26

Debussy, Claude

Preludes (12), Book 1
» no.8 La fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair) (violin and piano)

Dvorak, Antonin

Slavonic Dances: Series I, op.46 B83
» no.6 in D major
» no.8 in G minor

Elgar, Edward

Salut d'amour, op.12

Fiocco, Joseph Hector

Suite no.1 in G major
» Allegro

Handel, George Frideric

Serse (Xerxes), HWV40
» Ombra mai fu (Act 1)
Te Deum in D major, HWV 283 'Dettingen'
» Vouchsafe, O Lord

Lalo, Edouard

Symphonie espagnole in D minor, op.21

Leclair, Jean-Marie

Violin Sonatas (12), op.9
» no.3 in D major: Sarabande & Tambourin (arr. Pablo de Sarasate)

Monasterio, Jesus de

Sierra Morena

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Violin Concerto no.3 in G major, K216
» II Adagio

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Songs (6), op.4
» no.3 In the Silence of the Secret Night

Ries, Franz

La Capricciosa

Saenger, Gustav

Scotch Pastorale, op.130/2

Samazeuilh, Gustave

Chant d'Espagne

Schubert, Franz

Ave Maria, D839 (Ellens Gesang III, op.52 no.6) (arr. for violin and piano)
Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in D major, D384
Violin Sonata in A major, D574 'Duo Sonata'

Serrano, Emilio

La cancion del olvido

Spohr, Louis

Duo concertant in D major, op.67/2
» III Rondo

Traditional

La Romanesca

Wieniawski, Henryk

Scherzo tarantelle, op.16

Artists

Yehudi Menuhin
Adolph Baller
Hubert Giesen
Carroll Hollister
Wanda Landowska
Hephzibah Menuhin
Robert Merrill
Louis Persinger
Theodore Saidenberg
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony
Victor String Orchestra

Conductors

Antal Dorati
Pierre Monteux
Charles Munch

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Orchestral Suite no.3 in D major, BWV1068
» II Air 'Air on the G string'
Violin Sonata no.3 in E major, BWV1016

Bartok, Bela

Violin Concerto no.2, Sz112 BB117
Violin Sonata no.1, Sz75 BB84, op.21

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Violin Sonata no.5 in F major, op.24 'Spring'
Violin Sonata no.9 in A major, op.47 'Kreutzer'

Bloch, Ernest

Baal Shem
» no.2 Nigun

Bruch, Max

Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor, op.26

Debussy, Claude

Preludes (12), Book 1
» no.8 La fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair) (violin and piano)

Dvorak, Antonin

Slavonic Dances: Series I, op.46 B83
» no.6 in D major
» no.8 in G minor

Elgar, Edward

Salut d'amour, op.12

Fiocco, Joseph Hector

Suite no.1 in G major
» Allegro

Handel, George Frideric

Serse (Xerxes), HWV40
» Ombra mai fu (Act 1)
Te Deum in D major, HWV 283 'Dettingen'
» Vouchsafe, O Lord

Lalo, Edouard

Symphonie espagnole in D minor, op.21

Leclair, Jean-Marie

Violin Sonatas (12), op.9
» no.3 in D major: Sarabande & Tambourin (arr. Pablo de Sarasate)

Monasterio, Jesus de

Sierra Morena

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Violin Concerto no.3 in G major, K216
» II Adagio

Rachmaninov, Sergei

Songs (6), op.4
» no.3 In the Silence of the Secret Night

Ries, Franz

La Capricciosa

Saenger, Gustav

Scotch Pastorale, op.130/2

Samazeuilh, Gustave

Chant d'Espagne

Schubert, Franz

Ave Maria, D839 (Ellens Gesang III, op.52 no.6) (arr. for violin and piano)
Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in D major, D384
Violin Sonata in A major, D574 'Duo Sonata'

Serrano, Emilio

La cancion del olvido

Spohr, Louis

Duo concertant in D major, op.67/2
» III Rondo

Traditional

La Romanesca

Wieniawski, Henryk

Scherzo tarantelle, op.16

Artists

Yehudi Menuhin
Adolph Baller
Hubert Giesen
Carroll Hollister
Wanda Landowska
Hephzibah Menuhin
Robert Merrill
Louis Persinger
Theodore Saidenberg
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony
Victor String Orchestra

Conductors

Antal Dorati
Pierre Monteux
Charles Munch

About

To celebrate Yehudi Menuhin’s centenary in 2016 Sony Classical is releasing Yehudi Menuhin – The Complete American Victor Recordings, a 6-CD set bringing together legendary early recordings by this violin legend. Gems of the set include the first ever releases in any format of two previously unpublished items, including the December 1949 recordings of Beethoven’s “Spring” and “Kreutzer” Sonatas with Menuhin’s sister Hephzibah at the piano, and the first official CD release of Mendelssohn’s D minor Violin Concerto, Bruch’s Concerto No.1, Bach’s Sonata No.3 and Bartók’s Sonata No.1, which have been transferred from the original analogue master discs and tapes. Also two songs with baritone Robert Merrill for the first time on CD plus five previously unreleased encore pieces.

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