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1916–99 American/British violinist Menuhin studied with George Enescu (1881–1955). As a child prodigy he appeared in San Francisco in 1924 and in New York in 1926. He made his debut in Paris in 1927, in Berlin in 1928 and in London in 1929. His famous 1932 recording of the Elgar concerto under the composer’s baton is still in the catalogue. He ...

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of the Violin Concerto. It was hoped he would record it, too, but eventually it was the combination in 1932 of the 75-year-old Elgar with the teenage Yehudi Menuhin (1916–99) that produced a version that is still unsurpassed. Disillusion, War and Revival The death of King Edward VII in May 1910 saw the end of an era, ...

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Fauré (1845–1924), Jules Massenet (1842–1912) and other celebrated French composers. Working with some of the best musicians of his day, he led an active life on the concert platform. Yehudi Menuhin was among his students, as was fellow violin prodigy Arthur Grumiaux. Enescu’s opera, Oedipe (‘Oedipus’), while still in manuscript form, was lost en route to Moscow in ...

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trumpet repertory, appearing with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Cleveland Orchestras, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Yehudi Menuhin | Contemporary | Classical ...

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The phrase ‘Indian music’ is most often equated to an image of Ravi Shankar and the sitar, but there is much more to it than that. The south is the heartland of Karnatic classical music, whose history stretches back for 6,000 years. Shankar may be emblematic of Hindustani classical music, but that is a much younger style ...