Menuhin Dvd

This concert film captures legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin performing concertos by such luminaries as Mozart, Beethoven, and Bruch.

An exploration of the world's music. Yehudi Menuhin has created this expansive survey of musical traditions from five continents. With panoramic vision and infectious enthusiasm, he takes us from primeval rhythms of Africa to the symphonies of Beethoven, from plainsong to jazz, from Swiss yodeling to Irish jig, from steel drum to electronic synthesizer.

Alan Hovhaness: Orchestral/Concertant Works (Janabar - Shambala - Talin)
Classical | 2CDs | m4a 256 Kbps - No scans included | 190 Mb
Publisher: OgreOgress Productions | Printed in 02/2008 | RS (1 link)

01/30/08: First-ever public airing for Hovhaness violin & sitar concerto: Shambala. Almost 40 years after it was written, the Hovhaness concerto Shambala, for violin, sitar and orchestra, originally composed for Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar, received its world-premiere broadcast on January 30th 2008, on the WPRB radio show Classical Discoveries…

From The Alan Hovhaness Web Site

Baiba Skride - Bach Bartok Ysaye
SACD ISO (Stereo): 3,12 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,30 GB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Sony Classical # SK 92938 | Country/Year: Germany 2004
Genre: Classical | Style: Violin, Romantic, Modern

The Latvian violinist Baiba Skride won the 2001 Queen Elisabeth competition at the age of twenty. This is her debut recital for Sony, and probably the only SACD of her playing for the indefinite future, as her follow up has only been released on plain CD. (…) This disc is one of the most intelligently planned violin selections currently available…

Supported and guided by Sir Yehudi Menuhin at a young age, Kirill Troussov is now widely recognised as one of the leading violinists of his generation. The international press describes his playing as "…impressive elegance, irreproachable technique, an exceptional musical sensitivity and sonorities of immaculate beauty…". Kirill Troussov is a regular guest at prestigious concert halls and renowned international music festivals, all over the world.

Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler already enjoyed a worldwide legendary standing during his lifetime - he was considered the German conductor and performances were greeted with rapturous applause. Today, more than 50 years after his death, Wilhelm Furtwangler is still an icon and his work has become an integral part ofthe music scene.

Spectacular virtuoso playing, bravura passagework and show-stopping melodies are balanced with wistful lyricism and sublime tone painting in this irresistible program of perennial favorites, played with elan by the violinist Arabella Steinbacher. "Great violinists like Heifetz, Kresler, menuhin… played virtuosic pieces in their concerts," recalled Steinbacher in a recent interview. She lamented that such pieces are infrequently played owing to the perception that "…this kind of repertoire is 'not serious enough' which I find is really a pity and also not true."

Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler already enjoyed a worldwide legendary standing during his lifetime - he was considered the German conductor and performances were greeted with rapturous applause. Today, more than 50 years after his death, Wilhelm Furtwangler is still an icon and his work has become an integral part ofthe music scene.