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| Classic Masterclass | ...In this third programme, string players remember their conversations about vibrato techniques and the operatic nature of Mozart's instrumental music. Great moments from the arcHIVe include 1960s masterclasses with Paul Tortelier and Henryk Szeryng and 1970s masterclasses with YEHUDI MENUHIN, from which violinists John Holloway and Marcia Crayford recall his inspirational teaching.... |
| Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) | ...YEHUDI MENUHIN (viola)... |
| Hot House Kids | ...Deborah travels to Kiev to visit the National Ballet School, the elite football training centre at Dynamo Kiev and the National Gymnastics Centre, where she discovers why elite athletes are achieving such high levels of performance in Eastern Europe. Back in the UK, she visits the Chelsea FC Academy, the YEHUDI MENUHIN School and the Central School of Ballet to find out if the less intense British approach will work in such a competitive market.... |
| Humphrey Burton's Conducted Tour | ...The third of four programmes in which Humphrey Burton looks at the different types of conductors who have emerged in the 20th century. `Poachers-Turned-Gamekeepers'. World-famous instrumentalists who have taken up conducting as a second career, including Willi Boskovsky, YEHUDI MENUHIN, Neville Marriner, Mstislav Rostropovich, Andre Previn, Lorin Maazel, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Walter Weller, Christoph Eschenbach, Placido Domingo, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Gerard Schwarz, Pinchas Zukerman and Daniel Barenboim ... |
| Music Matters | ...Ivan Hewett looks ahead to the Glyndebourne opening of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's new theatre piece `The Last Supper'. And in the light of a new biography on YEHUDI MENUHIN, a discussion of some of the problems surrounding musical biography.... |
| My Son The Fiddler | ...He discusses Daniel's time spent as a boarder at the YEHUDI MENUHIN School.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...A homage to YEHUDI MENUHIN, featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Presented by Christopher Cook.... |
| Private Passions | ...YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin)... |
| Ravi Shankar - The Godfather Of World Music | ...Ravi Shankar looks back over his fifty-year career in music - ranging from his early days touring with his brother's dance troupe to working with Western performers like George Harrison and YEHUDI MENUHIN ... |
| Ravi | ...Donovan looks at the fascinating collaborations Ravi has had with the likes of John Coltrane, Philip Glass and YEHUDI MENUHIN ... |
| Robert Schumann | ...... |
| Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) | ...Sir YEHUDI MENUHIN (conductor).... |
| Something Understood | ...A special edition of the programme to mark the 10th anniversary of the UN Convention for the Rights of the Child. The UN's special representative for children and armed conflict, Ugandan Olara Otunnu, chooses words and music spanning cultures and continents, including Andrew Motion's visit to Anne Frank's Huis, and an early performance by YEHUDI MENUHIN ... |
| Sound Stories | ...With Donald Macleod. 5: Sherlock Holmes. The great detective of 221B Baker Street often, according to his friend Dr Watson, `droned away' on his violin, endeavouring to soothe his ruffled spirits or pondering over a strange problem that he had set himself to unravel. Including excerpts from Bach: Partita No 1 in D minor, BWV1002. YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin). Sarasate: Habanera, Op 21 No 2. The Composer (violin). Chopin: Nocturne in F minor, Op 55 No 1. Artur Rubinstein (piano). Russell: A Life on the Ocean Wave. Clifford Jackson (baritone), William Bolcom (piano).... |
| Top Of The Class | ...... |
| Vintage Years | ...David Mellor talks to harpsichordist Maggie Cole, who selects recordings made by Polish harpsichord pioneer Wanda Landowska. Scarlatti: three sonatas. Couperin: Le dodo ou l'amour au berceau; Musete de Taverni (Livres de Clavecin, Book 3). Mozart: Piano Sonata in D, K576 (excs). Haydn: Harpsichord Concerto in D, H XVIII 11 (exc). Bach: Violin Sonata in E, BWV1016 (exc). With YEHUDI MENUHIN. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy in D minor, BWV903. Poulenc: Concert champetre (finale). Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV988 (exc).... |
| Violin - Transcriptions, The | ...Andrew Manze explores some virtuoso transcriptions and arrangements made for the violin. Including Paganini's `Moses' fantasy played by YEHUDI MENUHIN, Leila Josefowicz playing Ernst's transcription of Schubert's `Erlkonig', Jascha Heifetz playing Waxman's `Carmen Fantasy', Maxim Vengerov performing variations on `The Last Rose of Summer', and a rare chance to hear Schumann's accompaniment to one of Bach's solo violin sonatas.... |
| Violin, The | ...Andrew Manze explores some of the music written for solo violin, including YEHUDI MENUHIN playing Bach, Frank Peter Zimmermann performing Ysaye, Isabelle Faust playing Bartok, Alexander Markov and Ruggiero Ricci playing Paganini, and Matthew Trusler playing Kreisler.... |
| Will The Real Bela Bartok | ...According to those who knew him, Bartok was both tall and short, warm and abrasive, amusing and humourless. Bartok the man is recalled by YEHUDI MENUHIN, Andor Foldes, Joseph Szigeti and the composer's family and friends.... |