Composer: Franz Schubert
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin, Robert Masters, Walter Gerhardt, Maurice Gendron, Derek Simpson, Ernst Wallfisch, Eugene Cruft, Gervase de Peyer, Archie Camden, Barry Tuckwell
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Release: 2016
Size: 1.9 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
String Quintet in C Major, D. 956
01. I. Allegro ma non troppo
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Scherzo. Presto – Trio. Andante sostenuto
04. IV. Allegretto
Octet in F Major, D. 803
05. I. Adagio – Allegro – Più allegro
06. II. Adagio
07. III. Allegro vivace – Trio – Allegro vivace
08. IV. Andante – Variations – Un poco più mosso – Più lento
09. V. Menuetto – Allegretto – Trio – Menuetto – Coda
10. VI. Andante molto – Allegro – Andante molto – Allegro molto
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.