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  • pastoralguy
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    • Nov 2010
    • 7732

    #91
    Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
    Loved the extract from the incomplete Menuhin/Boult Tchaikovsky Concerto on the recent Gramophoen freebie - heavens knows why they abandoned it without recording the cadenza - Rob Cowan very complimentary too in Gramophone.
    It occurs to me that Christmas isn't that far away now so hearing that recording is getting closer!

    (104 days according to Siri!)

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    • Barbirollians
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      • Nov 2010
      • 11663

      #92
      Wondering how PG is getting on with his present .

      I found a French CD pressing of the Menuhin/Masur Beethoven Concerto from1981 it is really much too slow and there are intonation problems throughout but heavens it is an extraordinarily spiritual performance . It is coupled with a late recording of the Spring Sonata with Jeremy Menuhin at the piano . Once again scratchy in places but what a lovely light hearted springlike performance . Menuhin was such an interesting violinist to listen to .

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      • pastoralguy
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 7732

        #93
        Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
        Wondering how PG is getting on with his present .

        I found a French CD pressing of the Menuhin/Masur Beethoven Concerto from1981 it is really much too slow and there are intonation problems throughout but heavens it is an extraordinarily spiritual performance . It is coupled with a late recording of the Spring Sonata with Jeremy Menuhin at the piano . Once again scratchy in places but what a lovely light hearted springlike performance . Menuhin was such an interesting violinist to listen to .
        You know Barbi, I waited for these discs and have listened to probably no more than half a dozen. Your comment sums it up for me in that I wish I wasn't a violinist when I listen to Menuhin since I can hear the deficiencies when I listen and appreciate the technical shortcomings in a way that I'm not bothered about when I hear, say, Maria Callas.

        I have that Masur/Beethoven concerto cd too and, no, it's not perfect but it still says volumes more than so many other automatons who have played/recorded it. He was such a great human being and that shines through in his music making.

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