In fact, Menuhin’s was my world, which I discovered when I heard his 1953 performance of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler.

The Violin Concerto was written in 1971 by the request of Yehudi Menuhin; who also performed the piece for the first time on the 18th of July 1972 in London’s Guildhall.

Experience the life and music of Yehudi Menuhin: violinist, conductor, educator, visionary and humanitarian.

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After composer Robert Schumann died, his Violin Concerto languished in a library — until a grandniece of the man he wrote it for got out her Ouija board.

Very obvious, despite Menuhin’s contentions, was the need of editing. Most of the important violin concertos by great masters have either been edited by, or written in collaboration with, some ...

Listen to Yehudi Menuhin having fun with it below. The Double Concerto So, you've written two violin concertos - what's next? Stick two violin concertos together and make a double concerto! This is a ...

Menuhin 100 on Radio 3 A child prodigy, Yehudi Menuhin (1916 – 1999) achieved more by his teens than most artists do in a lifetime.

David Owen Norris chooses his favourite recording of Elgar's Violin Concerto. Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor was composed for the violinist Fritz Kreisler, who gave the premiere in London in ...