Mendelssohn/Dvorák Violin Concertos
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Composer or Director: Antonín Dvořák, Felix Mendelssohn
Label: Treasury
Magazine Review Date: 2/1988
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Mono
Catalogue Number: EH749395-1
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Concerto for Violin and Orchestra |
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer George Enescu, Conductor Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Yehudi Menuhin, Violin |
Composer or Director: Antonín Dvořák, Felix Mendelssohn
Label: Treasury
Magazine Review Date: 2/1988
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Mono
Catalogue Number: EH749395-4
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Concerto for Violin and Orchestra |
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer George Enescu, Conductor Paris Conservatoire Orchestra Yehudi Menuhin, Violin |
Author: Robert Layton
EMI have really put us in their debt in recent months with a number of outstanding historic issues from their vaults. Among orchestral records alone, we have had Boult conducting Vaughan Williams's Flos campi, the composer himself directing the Fourth Symphony, Hindemith conducting his own music and the pre-war Heifetz concerto recordings. Menuhin was still 19 when he recorded the Dvorak Concerto with Enesco in March 1936 on seven 78rpm sides. His was one of the earliest recordings of the piece and its warmth and freshness still shine. It is as captivating a performance as the Mendelssohn, recorded two years later at a time when Kreisler's famous set with Sir Landon Ronald and the LPO reigned supreme.
The Mendelssohn has already appeared in the deleted four-LP boxed set devoted to Menuhin's famous early recordings (EMI mono RLS718, 4/76) when Max Harrison wrote; ''there is a perfect rightness in everything he does, from the never-cloying sweetness of the Andante and the indescribable deftness of the finale''. It is the kind of performance that makes you feel you are encountering this music for the first time—and his glorious account of the Dvorak can only be described in similar terms.
The recordings sound remarkably good: it's so nice to hear a little surface noise again! An altogether wonderful issue.'
The Mendelssohn has already appeared in the deleted four-LP boxed set devoted to Menuhin's famous early recordings (EMI mono RLS718, 4/76) when Max Harrison wrote; ''there is a perfect rightness in everything he does, from the never-cloying sweetness of the Andante and the indescribable deftness of the finale''. It is the kind of performance that makes you feel you are encountering this music for the first time—and his glorious account of the Dvorak can only be described in similar terms.
The recordings sound remarkably good: it's so nice to hear a little surface noise again! An altogether wonderful issue.'
Mendelssohn/Dvorák Violin Concertos
Mendelssohn/Dvorák Violin Concertos
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