Yehudi Menuhin: The Great Violin Concertos. 10 CD. EMI

Yehudi Menuhin: The Great violin Concertos.

10 cd. EMI. 2641982 

1.  Concertos (4) for Violin, Op. 8 no 1-4 "Four seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin), Paul Cocker (Harpsichord)
Conductor: Alberto Lysy
Period: Baroque
Written: 1725; Venice, Italy
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 39 Minutes 6 Secs.
 

2.  Concerto for Violin in C major, Op. 8 no 6/RV 180 "Il piacere" by Antonio Vivaldi
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk
Period: Baroque
Written: 1725; Venice, Italy
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 8 Minutes 39 Secs.
 

3.  Concerto for Violin in C minor, RV 199 "Il sospetto" by Antonio Vivaldi
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 8 Minutes 6 Secs.
 

4.  Concerto for Violin in E flat major, Op. 8 no 5/RV 253 "La tempesta di mare" by Antonio Vivaldi
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk
Period: Baroque
Written: 1725; Venice, Italy
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 10 Minutes 19 Secs.
 

5.  Concerto for Violin in B flat major, Op. 8 no 10/RV 362 "La caccia" by Antonio Vivaldi
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk
Period: Baroque
Written: 1725; Venice, Italy
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 8 Minutes 21 Secs.
 

6.  Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor, BWV 1041 by Johann Sebastian Bach
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin
Period: Baroque
Written: 1717-1723; Cöthen, Germany
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London, England
Length: 15 Minutes 7 Secs.
 

7.  Concerto for Violin no 2 in E major, BWV 1042 by Johann Sebastian Bach
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin
Period: Baroque
Written: 1717-1723; Cöthen, Germany
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London, England
Length: 19 Minutes 13 Secs.
 

8.  Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 by Johann Sebastian Bach
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin), Christian Ferras (Violin)
Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin
Period: Baroque
Written: 1717-1723; Cöthen, Germany
Date of Recording: 07/08/1959
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London, England
Length: 17 Minutes 33 Secs.
 

9.  Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord in A minor, BWV 1044 "Triple Concerto" by Johann Sebastian Bach
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin), George Malcolm (Harpsichord), William Bennett (Flute)
Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1730; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 06/30/1965
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London, England
Length: 22 Minutes 1 Secs.
 

10.  Concerto for Violin no 1 in C major, H 7a no 1 by Franz Joseph Haydn
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin
Period: Classical
Written: by 1769; Eszterhazá, Hungary
Date of Recording: 02/11/1963
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 18 Minutes 19 Secs.
 

11.  Concerto for Violin no 4 in D major, K 218 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin
Period: Classical
Written: 1775
Date of Recording: 07/01/1962
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 24 Minutes 30 Secs.
 

12.  Concerto for Violin no 5 in A major, K 219 "Turkish" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin
Written: 1775
Date of Recording: 07/01/1962
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 29 Minutes 33 Secs.
 

13.  Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61 by Ludwig van Beethoven
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Constantin Silvestri
Period: Classical
Written: 1806; Vienna, Austria
Venue: Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
Length: 44 Minutes 7 Secs.
 

14.  Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64 by Felix Mendelssohn
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Efrem Kurtz
Period: Romantic
Written: 1844; Germany
Date of Recording: 04/30/1958
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 26 Minutes 36 Secs.
 

15.  Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21 by Edouard Lalo
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: George Enescu
Period: Romantic
Written: 1873; France
Venue: Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
Length: 32 Minutes 38 Secs.
 

16.  Poème for Violin and Orchestra in E flat major, Op. 25 by Ernest Chausson 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: George Enescu
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; France
 Venue: Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
Length: 15 Minutes 36 Secs.
 

17.  Concerto for Violin in A minor, Op. 53 by Antonín Dvorák
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: George Enescu
Period: Romantic
Written: 1879-1880; Bohemia
Venue: Studio Albert, Paris, France
Length: 29 Minutes 28 Secs.
 

18.  Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77 by Johannes Brahms
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Rudolf Kempe
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878; Austria
Venue: Grunewaldekirche, Berlin, Germany
Length: 40 Minutes 32 Secs.
 

19.  Concerto for Violin no 1 in G minor, Op. 26 by Max Bruch
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Walter Susskind
Period: Romantic
Written: 1868; Germany
Date of Recording: 09/12/1956
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London, England
Length: 24 Minutes 2 Secs.
 

20.  Concerto for Violin in B minor, Op. 61 by Sir Edward Elgar
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Sir Edward Elgar
Period: Romantic
Written: 1909-1910; England
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 30 Minutes 26 Secs.
 

21.  Concerto for Violin no 3 in G major, K 216 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: George Enescu
Period: Classical
Written: 1775; Salzburg, Austria
Date of Recording: 12/09/1935
Venue: Studio Albert, Paris, France
Length: 23 Minutes 50 Secs.
 

22.  Sérénade mélancolique for Violin and Orchestra in B minor, Op. 26 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
Period: Romantic
Written: 1875; Russia
Date of Recording: 02/18/1959
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London, England
Length: 9 Minutes 10 Secs.
 

23.  Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 47 by Jean Sibelius
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
Period: Romantic
Written: 1903-1905; Finland
Date of Recording: 06/20/1955
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London, England
Length: 30 Minutes 28 Secs.
 

24.  Concerto for Violin, Op. 33 by Carl Nielsen
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Mogens Wöldike
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1911; Denmark
Date of Recording: 09/28/1952
Venue: Copenhagen, Denmark
Length: 22 Minutes 4 Secs.
 

25.  Concerto for Violin by Alban Berg
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Pierre Boulez
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1935; Austria
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 4 Minutes 37 Secs.
 

26.  Concerto for Violin in B minor by Sir William Walton
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Sir William Walton
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1938-1939; England
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 31 Minutes 1 Secs.
 

27.  Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra no 1, Sz 87 by Béla Bartók
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Pierre Boulez
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1928; Budapest, Hungary
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 11 Minutes 36 Secs.
 

28.  Concerto for Violin no 1, Sz 36 by Béla Bartók
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Antal Doráti
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1907-1908; Budapest, Hungary
Date of Recording: 02/24/1965
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London, England
Length: 21 Minutes 47 Secs.
 

29.  Concerto for Violin no 2, Sz 112 by Béla Bartók
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Antal Doráti
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1937-1938; Budapest, Hungary
Venue: Kingsway Hall, London, England
Length: 38 Minutes 12 Secs.
 

30.  Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra no 2, Sz 90 by Béla Bartók
 
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Conductor: Pierre Boulez
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1928; Budapest, Hungary
Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Length: 12 Minutes 32 Secs.