In 1980 Julian Lloyd Webber undertook a revealing and wide-ranging interview with Yehudi Menuhin that was never published, until now... The following interview took place in December 1980 at Yehudi ...
Commemorating the 100th year of his birth, Yehudi Menuhin: Who’s Yehudi? explores the extraordinary musical life of one of the 20th century’s greatest violinists. Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill, ...
When I was 15 I walked up the stairs of a grand old house in London’s Chester Square. I thought I was coming for a violin lesson. What I got was a life lesson. Yehudi Menuhin was one of the greatest ...
For the centenary of the great violinist’s birth, Daniel Hope, his protege from the age of two, remembers their life on the road – including the time his priceless violin, nicknamed Lord Wilton, went ...
Commentary: ‘The Menuhin Century’ is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace
Menuhin had been widely hailed as a boy genius in the press and made his first recording a year earlier. And Menuhin had no bigger fan than my mother. My grandfather and Menuhin’s father were from the ...
Yehudi Menuhin celebrates his 60th birthday on 22 April. For just about 50 of them he has been an HMV recording artist, so when I visited him at his elegant, peaceful home in Highgate, I first asked ...
On 22 April 1916, a violinist was born in New York whose artistry revolutionised the world of music. Yehudi Menuhin was more than a great performer; he was a visionary, a pioneer and a humanitarian.
A child violin prodigy, Yehudi Menuhin went on to boost morale in World War II, campaign for equality and earn praise from Albert Einstein. The great violinist died 17 years ago, but his legacy lives ...
Hearing Lord Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon in 1929 when the great violinist was plain Yehudi, 13, Albert Einstein remarked "the day of miracles is not over. Our dear old Jehovah is still on the job." ...
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