In 1932, the 16-year-old Menuhin became the first to record Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto with the composer conducting, a recording that has never been out of print.

Paganini, Niccolò. Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 7: III. Rondo ('La Campanella') [07'04] Royal Philharmonic Orchestra + Yehudi Menuhin (violin) ...

The Violin Concerto was created in 1971 on commission for Yehudi Menuhin, who also performed the composition for the first time on the 18th of July 1972 in the Guildhall building in London during the ...

Famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin loved the piece, calling it the "bridge" between Beethoven and Brahms, and he played the American debut shortly thereafter. D'Arányi played the British debut.

Heralded by an unprecedented hullabaloo of publicity, and greeted by a shower of critical ice water, Schumann’s “lost” Violin Concerto finally had its U. S. premiere last week, when 20-year ...

April 22 marks the centenary of violinist Yehudi Menuhin (born Yehudi Mnuchin in New York). After 12-year-old Yehudi Menuhin played three concertos in Berlin, Albert Einstein famously exclaimed ...

A child prodigy, Yehudi Menuhin (1916 – 1999) achieved more by his teens than most artists do in a lifetime. But the man behind the violin was harder to know; his cocooned and curious childhood ...

The phone call interrupted Yehudi Menuhin while practicing his violin.”Don`t worry, it`s nice and late and quiet here now, and I`m just working a bit on Bach solo sonatas,” he said, his ...