Catalogue | Solo Concerto

Tschaikowsky – Mozart – Bach: These benchmarks in Yehudi Menuhin's repertoire are presented on this CD in exemplary interpretations. His take on Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is structurally clear and striking in its declamation. In Mozart’s D major Concerto he accentuates the tension between formal classicity and expressional subjectivity. Bach’s Chaconne is presented not as a deduction from a theme but as a circling approach towards the fundamental idea.
The recordings is further enhanced by great musical concurrence with the conductors: Ferenc Fricsay, whom Menuhin admired greatly as an artist and as a person, and Karl Böhm, whose ideals in Mozart interpretation he shared. This CD offers an insight into Yehudi Menuhin’s extensive repertoire and his ideals in musical interpretation.

There is a "Producer’s Comment" from producer Ludger Böckenhoff about this production available.

The production is part of our series "Legendary Recordings" and bears the quality feature "1st Master Release". This term stands for the excellent quality of archival productions at audite. For all historical publications at audite are based, without exception, on the original tapes from broadcasting archives. In general these are the original analogue tapes, which attain an astonishingly high quality, even measured by today‘s standards, with their tape speed of up to 76 cm/sec. The remastering – professionally competent and sensitively applied – also uncovers previously hidden details of the interpretations. Thus, a sound of superior quality results. CD publications based on private recordings from broadcasts cannot be compared with these.

• andante | January 4, 2009

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• Diverdi Magazin | Ignacio González Pitos | January 2, 2009

  Otros tiempos...
  Menuhin, Fricsay y Böhm en otro gran rescate histórico de Audite
  Eran otros tiempos. Tiempos en los que la presencia de Yehudi Menuhin en Berlín tenía una importante carga simbólica, tiempos en los que Ference...

• Gramophone | January 4, 2009

  Golden tones revided
  Masters (and a mistress) of the violin
  Not long after the war's end and the terrible revelations that followed, at least two great Jewish violinists performed in Germany, including Menuhin...

• klassik.com | Martin Morgenstern | May 23, 2009

  Provozierendes Politikum
  Was gab das für eine Aufregung, als Daniel Barenboim es 2001 wagte, dem...

• La Musica | January 4, 2009

  Ferenc Fricsay Editions
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• Pizzicato | Alain Steffen | January 2, 2009

  Menuhin auf dem Höhepunkt des Könnens
  Yehudi Menuhin auf dem Höhepunkt seines Könnens! Seine Interpretation von Tchaikovskys Violinkonzert kommt ohne falsches Pathos aus und beeindruckt...

• Scherzo | Enrique Pérez Adrián | January 5, 2009

  Fricsay,Karajan
  Sigue la extraordinaria Edición Frícsay en el sello alemán Audite (distribuidor: Diverdí) con grabaciones radiofónicas de los cincuenta con muy...

• www.classicstodayfrance.com | Christophe Huss | January 16, 2009

  Pas d'incontournables raretés que ces concertos, publiés à plusieurs reprises (la première apparition du Tchaikovski était en complément d'un...

• www.codaclassic.com | January 4, 2009

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