Yehudi Menuhin. Brahms Violin Concerto, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult. (1943)
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- A rare recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto in D (Op. 77) and the bach Solo Partita No3 in E
Recorded at BBC Maida Vale in 1943.
The following is a recent blog post from Mary Lawson who was the recording engineer at the BBC Maida Vale.
Yehudi Menuhin, the now renowned violinist and former child prodigy whom I had heard on the wireless in my school days, would arrive from the US and be the soloist with Adrian Boult and the BBC SO. As he was being flown over by the US Air Force the Estimated Time of Arrival was uncertain, so I had to be prepared for any possibility.
I spent the morning selecting the sharpest sapphire cutters and doing test recordings on reels of film to find any flaws in the surface coating which might affect the track. He was to play the Brahms Violin Concerto so I examined the score and marked all the appropriate bars for machine Change Overs. Early in the afternoon I was told by the SRE to make a brief visit upstairs. A brief glimpse through the Studio 1 window and I saw the handsome 27 year old chatting to Adrian Boult.
From the "ten seconds from now -" to the final labelling of the reels, I was so busy that I recall nothing of the performance. Fortunately, I had not yet switched off the machines when the soloist filled a few remaining minutes of recording time by playing Bach's Partita No 3 in E. The reels were collected and taken away with the rest of that day's output of recordings. An unrewarding part of our job was that our product, after being broadcast a few times would often be scrapped. Imagine my surprise when the publication BBC Music Magazine / September 1997 issue gave for the free monthly CD, a remastered dubbing of this Menuhin recording which I had made 54 years before, and it included the Bach Partita. Also, in BBC Music Magazine / December 2017 in the series 'Music that changed me,' Gábor Takács-Nagy , violinist and conductor chooses this recording of Menuhin's performance of the Brahms Concerto.
Thanks to the surprising popularity of the 1942 season in the Albert Hall, the 1943 Proms began in mid-June for an eight week summer season Two orchestras, the BBC Symphony and the London Philharmonic and conductors Henry Wood, Adrian Boult and Basil Cameron shared the load. Concerts began at 6.30 pm so that people could be back in time for their nightly and overnight wartime duties. - บันเทิง
I remember when in 1997 I too received this in the BBC monthly magazine - I played it for the first time and was absolutely shocked with his hypnotic brilliance - it has become my favourite violin recording of all time and I have played it hundreds of times. Given the context of the performance during the depths of the war his playing is simply sublime and stupendous ..... I feel that he is playing for his very life and for his fellow Jews whose dark fate was becoming known at that time ..... the passion and the pain is palpable .......... I dont know if this recording was ever broadcast on the BBC German Service or the other foreign services to Occupied Europe - but just imagine the impact if it had been: Here was an American Jew - a virtuoso superstar - a free man in London - playing for them ... an astonishing concept .......halcyon days indeed. Music conquers everything.
You took my words, friend! 👍😍
Melodic form. I really like his style and form. Each Violinist has their own form of expression, some more talented than others... all things being equal.... I truly enjoy his form..the emotion he is able to convey. When I read why his mother called him Yehudi,it nearly brought a tear to my eye, thankfully I held back... especially after reading his speech at the Knesset, it made me feel honored at both his mother's courage and his... an extremely talented man.
Es una interpretación Con elevado nivel interpretativo , donde el Gran Violinista Jehudi Menuhin ejecuta con una absoluta entrega , ejecutando con sonido deslumbrante y un timbre con una pureza grandiosa .
Very beautiful played by Mr. Yehudi Menuhin. Bravo!
39:50 Bach
Whose cadenza is this...!??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Someone said it's by Enescu
Who’s cadenza is this?? 🤩
George enescu
The same year, 1943, RAF burned Brahms's native city, Hamburg, to the ground. In fact, they turned Hamburg into ashes. Music, and generally the culture of a nation (Germany) was one thing. War against the incarnation of evil (Nazi Germany) was another. Tragic irony, nevertheless....
I've never heard it sound this miscomprehended. Kreisler's is well forgotten.Kulenkampf is unforgettable.Did AdolfBusch record this ?Neveu is always remarkable. But today's superbly better trained masters sound like Messiahs in this music .Vengerov has the energy, force,focus This was live and Menuhin seems really not to get this music(He probably learned it in his teens and it's not difficult to feel this music so I don't know why he soundsspo Wrong in this .The entrance is heavy and later he is too literal each phrase not integrated into the whole but played for individual meaning-not a good idea in large pieces such as this ! Brahms often soundsturgid not here both piano concerti and 3rd symphony do that.Menuhin wakes up in11th minuteand then the famous ninth passage.I'd like to hear him in the3 Sonatas . I was amazed that he learned, programmed and recorded the Berg concerto . I need to hear this man withFurtwanglerBeethoven-one of the first recordings I brought as a child . Something really seems missing intellectually. Heifetz who people judge negatively has nobility, class and makes the whole concerto seem a massive statement . Menuhin always sounds truncated no matter who's conducting . This is a strange recording and Menuhin's Bartok is as bad as it getslike some of the traversals Schnabel made in Brahms2! . It's not the old recording sound that era was indeed fallible .
Thank you, at least one who doesn't follow the name Menuhin, but really listens to his interpretations. I don't understand the hype...
I'm curious: Are you a violinist?
@@avgeekviolinist HI.I'm trained as a violinist and pianist from 1st grade till college. Violin training stopped in highschool.Composition is my forte .I could never compete with today's virtuosi.Thereis a lot of really fine musical and player knowledge I would not have. Unlike Menuhin I'm not a genius nor did I have Persinger and the more famous Enesco as teachers nor the remarkable composers and other players he met. However ,my ear and most who've had training can hear him in Brahms and also a very poor Bartok concerto and know what I'm talking about.
@@ottokarvonschnallenburg2572you are right, you do not understand…
Kreisler well forgotten ???? Menuhin plays very well here. And he, Neveu, Kreisler have truly individual sound. Vengerov is great but cannot be categorized among the greatest interpreters of the Brahms or Beethoven violin concerti. His playing is inferior to such individuals as Oistrach and Kogan. He is a great virtuoso, but not a phenomenal musician.