GREAT RECORDINGS phase 18

J.S BACH
Violin Concertos
Chaconne

Yehudi Menuhin
George Enescu
Pierre Monteux
Orchestre Symphonique de Paris

3 91962 2

Mono
ADD
Recorded 1932, 1933, 1934 & 1936
74 minutes

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"The partnership of Menuhin and his teacher Enescu in the D minor work is wonderfully intuitive, and the music-making spontaneous, vital and, in its own very special way, satisfying."
(The Gramophone)

Tully Potter’s notes give fascinating background. The Double Concerto was the first to be recorded, at the young Yehudi’s father’s suggestion, and it would prove the boy’s ‘first wholly successful concerto recording, preceding by a month the famous Elgar concerto with the composer conducting’; it was also the last work Menuhin would play in the studio, with his pupil Alberto Lysy in 1992.

The second violinist in 1932 was Menuhin’s own teacher, the Romanian composer and conductor George Enescu, who also directs the two solo concertos.

A substantial bonus is the D minor Chaconne, in the first and perhaps finest of Menuhin’s many recordings.

This new state-of-the art remastering by Abbey Road 78 expert Andrew Walter improves greatly on these recordings’ previous appearance on Références.