This episode of ‘The Archive’ introduces Yehudi Menuhin, one of the violin’s masters. From the age of eight, he showed the talents of a child prodigy and begged his teacher to be allowed to practice Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, op.61. It’s this piece he performs in this recording with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis from the International Concert Hall, 1962. Jo...
This episode of ‘The Archive’ introduces Yehudi Menuhin, one of the violin’s masters. From the age of eight, he showed the talents of a child prodigy and begged his teacher to be allowed to practice Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, op.61. It’s this piece he performs in this recording with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis from the International Concert Hall, 1962. Jo...