Composer: Niccolò Paganini
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Ferguson Webster, Hubert Giesen, Marcel Gazelle
Orchestra: Orchestre Symphonique de Paris
Conductor: Pierre Monteux
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Release: 2016
Size: 1.22 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6
01. I. Allegro maestoso – Tempo giusto
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Rondo – Allegro spirituoso – Un poco più presto
04. Introduction and Variations on ‘Dal tuo stellato soglio’, Op. 24 (From Mosè in Egitto by Rossini)
05. Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 7, ‘La Campanella’: III. Rondo – La Campanella
06. Moto Perpetuo in C Major, Op. 11
24 Caprices, Op. 1
07. No. 5 in A Minor
08. No. 6 in G Minor
09. No. 9 in E Major, ‘La Chasse’)
10. No. 13 in B-Flat Major
11. No. 20 in D Major
12. No. 23 in E-Flat Major, ‘Posato’
13. No. 24 in A Minor
This box illustrates Menuhin’s historic role as a musician through recordings such as: the legendary Elgar Violin Concerto with the composer conducting; historical concerts, such as the re-opening of the Opéra de Paris two months after Paris liberation; Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Bartók with Wilhelm Furtwängler; the Bach Double Concerto with David Oistrakh, and works composed for Menuhin by Bloch, Bartók and many others.