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Bartok - Violin Concerto, Sonata | Naxos - Historical 8111336

Bartok - Violin Concerto, Sonata

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111336

Barcode: 0747313333622

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 27th April 2009

Contents

Artists

Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Adolph Baller (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Wilhelm Furtwangler

Works

Bartok, Bela

Violin Concerto no.2, Sz112 BB117
Violin Sonata no.1, Sz75 BB84, op.21

Artists

Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Adolph Baller (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Wilhelm Furtwangler

About

Yehudi Menuhin commissioned and gave the first performance of Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin and was an influential advocate of his music. This 1947 recording of the First Violin Sonata finds Menuhin in particularly intense and vivid form, his accomplishment equalled by Adolph Baller’s virtuosity and perceptive musicianship.

Of the four studio recordings Menuhin made of the composer’s Second Violin Concerto, this 1953 rendition, while perhaps not flawless, certainly remains an unusually truthful and penetrating account of one of the twentieth century’s most magnificent, challenging and emotionally satisfying violin concertos.

Contents:
Violin Concerto No.2
Philharmonia Orchestra / Wilhelm Furtwängler
Recorded 12th – 13th September, 1953 in EMI Abbey Road Studio No.1, London

Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano
Adolph Baller (piano)
Recorded 29th December, 1947 in RCA Studio No.2, New York City

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