Menuhin plays Bach Violin Concerto in A minor - Part 2/3

Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Performer: Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999)

Recorded: February 21, 1936
Conductor: Pierre Monteux
Orchestra: Paris Symphony Orchestra

I. Allegro (non tanto)
II. Andante
III. Allegro assai

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• bach
• yehudi
• menuhin
• violin

[polymath7]

Damn it, Johann, why couldn't you have gotten off your ass and written more than three violin concertos?

This is sublime.

[debartzen]

Menuhin-Bach.¡Insuperable!

[MyCriminal12]

היי חן



[MyCriminal12]

אומיגאד איזה מדהים ! :D היוש חברים

[connorross123]

Amazing quality for when it was recorded. Still by far the best recording, at least for this movement, on YouTube.

[alienalienss]

@vanderbilt887 Yeah, I believe you're right and shiveringflower is wrong. Luckily for us, though, pianos are much louder than harpsichords, so the G minor concerto sounds just fine!

[vanderbilt887]

That's interesting. I've heard the exact opposite, namely that Bach was dissatisfied with his keyboard transition of this violin concerto (the G minor, I believe it is), since the strings too much dominated the piece and no real development of the harpsichord part could take place - according to Bach, that is. I've lost the source...

[polymath7]

@shiveringflower  Bach was dissatisfied with his violin concerti? You've aroused my curiosity. I don't suppose you have a source?

[shiveringflower]

@polymath7 Agreed, although Bach himself was unhappy with them and later rewrote them as keyboard concerti, which he felt worked much better.

[sanchuUu]

@polymath7 waah! he was busy writing the suites for cello solo... and these are not enough either D:

[hainanrose]

@polymath7 geesh, what do you want? He wrote 6 amazing Sonatas and Partitas!