Original title: Bruno Monsaingeon Edition, Vol. 2: Yehudi Menuhin
Released: 1987
Genre: Classical, Documentary
Conductor: Kurt Masur, Yehudi Menuhin, Peter Norris, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Artist: Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Igor Oistrakh (violin), Valery Oistrakh (violin), Viktoria Postnikova (piano), Jeremy Menuhin (piano), Marc Coppey (cello), Bruno Monsaingeon (violin), Yehudi Menuhin School, instrumentalists, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra

Description:

We are proud to present the second Edition of the ultimate collection of films by Bruno Monsaingeon, probably the most outstanding music filmmaker, who has documented life and work of the greatest artists of our time: Yehudi Menuhin (1916 - 1999). The Bruno Monsaingeon Edition Volume 2 is a true gem for collectors, not only in terms of the design and content but also matching the personality of the artist portrayed, as well as of the director himself. In the edition of 12 films on DVD and various bonus programs will be found, most of them published for the first time: the three part documentary "Menuhin returns to the USSR" ("Retour aux Sources") and five concert programs in Leningrad and Moscow showing his triumphant appearance at the top of the Perestroika in 1987 and 1989, the third movement of the Elgar Concerto which has never been published, the big retrospective documentary film "The Violin of the Century", and other films like "Four Seasons" and the Brahms Concerto, also the conversations in Mykonos exclusively edited for this edition, as well as an interview with Bruno Monsaingeon he gave in January 2014 in Berlin.

Citation
DISC 1

Le Violon du Siècle (The Violin of the Century) (Documentary)

Conversations with Yehudi Menuhin - Mykonos, June 1994 (Documentary)

Recorded in 1994 (The Violin of the Century)
Recorded at Yehudi Menuhin's private house in Mykonos, Greece, June 1994 (Conversations with Yehudi Menuhin)

DISC 2

Retour aux Sources - Yehudi Menuhin in the Soviet Union: First and Second Episodes (Documentary)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for 3 Violins in D Major (after BWV 1064)

Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Sérénade mélancolique, Op. 26

Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100

Béla Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 1, BB 84

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30, No. 2

Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Igor Oistrakh, violin
Valery Oistrakh, violin
Viktoria Postnikova, piano

USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor

Recorded at Moscow and Leningrad, November 1987 (Retour aux Sources)
Recorded at Salle Tchaikovsky, Moscow, 13 November 1987 (Violin Concertos)
Recorded at the Philharmonie in Leningrad, November 16 1987 (Violin Sonatas)

DISC 3

Retour aux Sources - Yehudi Menuhin in the Soviet Union: Third Episode (Documentary)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, "Pathetique"

Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 27 in G Major, K. 379

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50

Jeremy Menuhin, piano
Marc Coppey, cello
Viktoria Postnikova, piano

USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Yehudi Menuhin, violin and conductor

Recorded at Moscow and Leningrad, November 1987 (Retour aux Sources)
Recorded at the Philharmonie in Leningrad, 21 November 1987 (Piano Concerto, Symphony No. 6)
Recorded at the Conservatory Hall in Moscow, March 1989 (Violin Sonatas, Piano Trio)

DISC 4

Antonio Vivaldi: The 4 Seasons, Op. 8

Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77

Do you realize how much I love music? - Monsaingeon on Menuhin (Documentary)

Béla Bartók:
44 Duos for 2 Violins, BB 104, Vol. 3: No. 28. Bánkódás (Sorrow)
44 Duos for 2 Violins, BB 104, Vol. 4: No. 38. Fórgatós (Romanian whirling dance)

Edward Elgar: Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61: III. Allegro molto

Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Bruno Monsaingeon, violin
Yehudi Menuhin School, instrumentalists
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Peter Norris, conductor
Kurt Masur, conductor

Recorded in 1979 (The 4 Seasons)
Recorded at Gewandhaus Leipzig, 1982 (Violin Concerto)
Recorded at Schallplattencafé Horenstein, Berlin, 16 January 2014 (Do you realize how much I love music?)
Recorded in 1977 (44 Duos for 2 Violins)

Issued: United States | EUROARTS
Duration: ~ 1087 min.