Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Adrian Boult - Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Op. 47 - Vaughan Williams: Concerto accademico - Chausson: Poème, Op. 25 - Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D Minor (2025)

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Title: Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Op. 47 - Vaughan Williams: Concerto accademico - Chausson: Poème, Op. 25 - Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D Minor
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Warner Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:25:48
Total Size: 247 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47: I. Allegro moderato (15:07)
2. Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47: II. Adagio di molto (8:00)
3. Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47: III. Allegro ma non tanto (7:12)
4. Violin Concerto in D Minor "Concerto accademico": I. Allegro pesante (5:45)
5. Violin Concerto in D Minor "Concerto accademico": II. Adagio (7:10)
6. Violin Concerto in D Minor "Concerto accademico": III. Presto (3:53)
7. Poème, Op. 25 (14:57)
8. Violin Concerto in D Minor, MWV O3: I. Allegro molto (9:17)
9. Violin Concerto in D Minor, MWV O3: II. Andante non troppo (8:35)
10. Violin Concerto in D Minor, MWV O3: III. Allegro (5:57)

Yehudi Menuhin and Sir Adrian Boult teamed up on many occasions, notably in their iconic rendition of Edward Elgar’s concerto. This album, bringing together recordings from the 1950s, includes lesser-known performances, with three concertos (interestingly, all in the key of D Minor) among which the Sibelius and the Vaughan Williams ones are made available for the first time digitally. Vaughan Williams’s concerto, sometimes called “Accademico”, is a lovely piece quite rarely recorded, inspired by the English folk tunes, whose premiere’s centenary will be ceebrated on November 6th.