Yehudi Menuhin - The Complete American Victor Recordings (2016) [Hi-Res]

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Artist: Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Monteux, Charles Munch, Adolph Baller, Robert Merrill, Hephzibah Menuhin
Title: The Complete American Victor Recordings
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: RCA Red Seal
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet) [44.1kHz/24bit]
Total Time: 5:46:34
Total Size: 1.67 GB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

Disc 1
1. Pierre Monteux – Symphonie espagnole pour violon et orchestre in D Minor, Op. 21 : I. Allegro non troppo (07:26)
2. Pierre Monteux – Symphonie espagnole pour violon et orchestre in D Minor, Op. 21 : II. Scherzando - Allegro molto (04:04)
3. Pierre Monteux – Symphonie espagnole pour violon et orchestre in D Minor, Op. 21 : III. Intermezzo - Allegretto non troppo (05:52)
4. Pierre Monteux – Symphonie espagnole pour violon et orchestre in D Minor, Op. 21 : IV. Andante (06:21)
5. Pierre Monteux – Symphonie espagnole pour violon et orchestre in D Minor, Op. 21 : V. Rondo - Allegro (08:01)
6. Pierre Monteux – Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 : I. Vorspiel - Allegro moderato (07:45)
7. Pierre Monteux – Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 : II. Adagio (07:59)
8. Pierre Monteux – Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 : III. Finale - Allegro energico - Presto (06:40)

Disc 2
1. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 : I. Vorspiel - Allegro moderato (07:50)
2. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 : II. Adagio (07:46)
3. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 : III. Finale - Allegro energico - Presto (06:57)
4. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Concerto in D Minor, MWV 03 : I. Allegro molto (08:54)
5. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Concerto in D Minor, MWV 03 : II. Andante (08:27)
6. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Concerto in D Minor, MWV 03 : III. Allegro (06:03)

Disc 3
1. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz. 112 : I. Allegro non troppo (15:39)
2. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz. 112 : II. Andante tranquillo (09:31)
3. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz. 112 : III. Allegro molto (11:36)
4. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, Sz. 75 : I. Allegro appassionato (11:49)
5. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, Sz. 75 : II. Adagio (10:02)
6. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, Sz. 75 : III. Allegro molto (09:08)

Disc 4
1. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Harpsichord and Violin No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016 : I. Adagio (06:07)
2. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Harpsichord and Violin No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016 : II. Allegro (03:31)
3. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Harpsichord and Violin No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016 : III. Adagio ma non tanto (06:06)
4. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Harpsichord and Violin No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016 : IV. Allegro (04:13)
5. Yehudi Menuhin – Salut d'amour in E Major, Op. 12 (02:33)
6. Yehudi Menuhin – Preludes, Book I : La fille aux cheveux de lin (02:30)
7. Yehudi Menuhin – Orchestral Suite in D Major No. 3, BWV 1068: II. Air (03:25)
8. Yehudi Menuhin – Ave Maria, D. 839 (04:48)
9. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Sonata in D Major, D. 384, Op. 137/1 : I. Allegro molto (03:52)
10. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Sonata in D Major, D. 384, Op. 137/1 : II. Andante (03:56)
11. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Sonata in D Major, D. 384, Op. 137/1 : III. Allegro vivace (03:39)
12. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Sonata in A Major, D. 574, Op. 162 : I. Allegro moderato (07:19)
13. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Sonata in A Major, D. 574, Op. 162 : II. Scherzo - Presto (03:24)
14. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Sonata in A Major, D. 574, Op. 162 : III. Andantino (03:32)
15. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Sonata in A Major, D. 574, Op. 162 : IV. Allegro vivace (04:26)
16. Robert Merrill – 6 Songs, Op. 4, No. 3: In the Silence of the Secret Night (02:43)
17. Robert Merrill – Xerxes, HWV 40, Act I: May the Fates be Kind "Ombra mai fu" (03:39)

Disc 5
1. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring" : I. Allegro (06:44)
2. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring" : II. Adagio molto espressivo (05:47)
3. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring" : III. Scherzo - Allegro molto (01:01)
4. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring" : IV. Rondo - Allegro ma non troppo (05:54)
5. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer" : I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto (10:53)
6. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer" : II. Andante con variazioni (13:51)
7. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 "Kreutzer" : III. Finale - Presto (05:56)
8. Yehudi Menuhin – Hungarian Dance No. 4 in B Minor, WoO 1/4 (03:31)

Disc 6
1. Yehudi Menuhin – La Capricciosa (02:29)
2. Yehudi Menuhin – Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in G Major, Op. 1/1: Allegro (02:42)
3. Yehudi Menuhin – 16th Century Melody: La Romanesca (03:36)
4. Yehudi Menuhin – Sierra Morena (04:31)
5. Yehudi Menuhin – Scotch Pastorale, Op. 130/2 (03:45)
6. Yehudi Menuhin – Te Deum in D, HWV 283 "Dettingen": Prayer (04:05)
7. Yehudi Menuhin – Baal Shem: Three Pictures of Chassidic Life: II. Nigun (Improvisation) (06:22)
8. Yehudi Menuhin – Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216: II. Adagio (04:30)
9. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Major, Op. 9/3 : I. Sarabande (01:50)
10. Yehudi Menuhin – Sonata for Violin and Continuo in D Major, Op. 9/3 : II. Tambourin (02:38)
11. Yehudi Menuhin – Chant d'Espagne (03:44)
12. Yehudi Menuhin – La canción del olvido (01:55)
13. Yehudi Menuhin – Duo Concertant for 2 Violins in D Major, Op. 67/2: III. Rondo - Vivace (01:28)
14. Yehudi Menuhin – Scherzo-Tarantelle in G Minor, Op. 16 (04:05)
15. Yehudi Menuhin – Slavonic Dance in D Major, Op. 46, No. 6 (03:53)
16. Yehudi Menuhin – Slavonic Dance in G Minor, Op. 46, No. 8 (03:26)

The legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin was the eldest child of Russian-born Hebrew scholars who met in Palestine, emigrated to New York City, and moved to San Francisco soon after their son's birth. After just three years of violin study, Yehudi made a legendary debut at age seven with the local symphony. His Carnegie Hall debut three years later, in the Beethoven Violin Concerto, garnered praise that likened him to Mozart as a prodigy, whereupon the family (which now included sisters Hephzibah and Yaltah) lived gypsy-like in hotels wherever Yehudi was engaged at enormous fees. But the child's talent was instinctive. As Fritz Kreisler was to remark later on, "Because the young Menuhin had anticipated so early and so much of what nature had given him, I foresaw that he would have great difficulties." And he did.

When an eminent elder colleague requested a scale after the boy had played Lalo's Symphonie espagnole flawlessly, Menuhin wrote in his autobiography, Unfinished Journey, "I groped all over the fingerboard like a blind mouse.... I played the violin without being prepared for violin playing." He began recording early on (playing among other works Elgar's Violin Concerto at 16, with the composer conducting) and continued to concertize, making a world tour of 73 cities during his 19th year. At the end, however, he felt "tired, indifferent, and sad," and in 1936 began an 18-month sabbatical. Menuhin resumed playing in 1938, but never after with the sublime confidence of his preadolescent years.

During World War II he gave more than 500 concerts for Allied and American troops, but stirred a hornet's nest of controversy as the first major Jewish artist to perform in postwar Germany. Likewise, after the Six Day War in the Middle East, he was vilified for performing charity concerts in Arab countries. Increasingly he devoted himself to the training of young artists, both near London (which became his home in 1952) and at Gstaad, Switzerland. Also in 1952 he went to India, became a disciple of yoga, and a colleague of sitarist Ravi Shankar. He recorded with Shankar, as he did subsequently with jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli. In the middle 1950s Menuhin took up conducting, but was no better schooled than he had been as a child violinist -- and he was conspicuously less successful despite having made a steady stream of recordings begninning in 1958. At age 82 he was guest conducting the Warsaw Symphony on tour when he suffered a fatal heart attack in Berlin.

Menuhin was named Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1948, to the British knighthood in 1965, and to a Lordship in 1993. For his work on behalf of peace worldwide, he was named ambassador of goodwill to UNESCO in 1992. His dedication to the "minds and hearts" of young musicians well may be remembered after his pre-adult celebrity has faded to black. Menuhin married twice, fathered four children, and played frequent recitals with sisters Hephzibah (1920-1981), starting in 1930, and years later with Yaltah (1922-2001), notably at the Bath Festival he founded and directed in the 1960s. © Roger Dettmer

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