Menuhin plays Mozart - Violin Concertos
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Label: ICA Classics
Cat No: ICAC5153
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 2nd November 2018
Contents
Works
Violin Concerto no.1 in B flat major, K207Violin Concerto no.2 in D major, K211
Violin Concerto no.3 in G major, K216
Violin Concerto no.4 in D major, K218
Violin Concerto no.7 in D major, K271a
Artists
BBC Symphony OrchestraLondon Mozart Players
Conductors
Malcolm SargentAlfred Wallenstein
Harry Blech
Works
Violin Concerto no.1 in B flat major, K207Violin Concerto no.2 in D major, K211
Violin Concerto no.3 in G major, K216
Violin Concerto no.4 in D major, K218
Violin Concerto no.7 in D major, K271a
Artists
BBC Symphony OrchestraLondon Mozart Players
Conductors
Malcolm SargentAlfred Wallenstein
Harry Blech
About
The celebrated violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) was very familiar with the Mozart Concertos, and played all seven including the spurious Concerto no.6. These ‘live’ performances reflect Menuhin’s Mozart playing during a single month in 1956 where he performed all the composer’s major works with orchestra (missing here are No.5, K219, and the ‘Sixth Concerto’, supposedly by Johann Friedrich Eck).
Menuhin brings great insight and experience to every concerto and his intonation which became a concern in later life is spot on with these performances. In the Penguin Guide’s review of the Mozart Concertos on EMI, recorded in the early 1960s, we hear: ‘One is always conscious that this is phrasing from a master musician...these performances give an engaging sense of musicians making intimate music together for the joy of it’. MusicWeb International reviewed the studio recordings as follows: ‘Menuhin’s Mozart Concertos (from the early 60s) are elegant and expressive, with some wonderful sweetness of playing...’
This is the first time that these ‘live’ performances have been released and they are therefore of enormous interest to collectors and completists of this great violinist.
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