With pianoforte accompaniment by Arthur Balsam : Scherzo Tarantelle, Op. 16 (Wieniarski). With pianoforte accompaniment by Louis Persinger : Allegro (Fiocco). With pianoforte accompaniment by Gubert Gieson : Campanella, Op. 7 bis (Paganini). With pianoforte accompaniment by Louis Persinger : Sarabando and Tambourin (Leclair, arr. Sarasate). With pianoforte accompaniment by Louis Persinger : La Romanesca (Sixteenth Century Melody) (harmonised Achron). With the London Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Sir Landon Ronald : Finale : Allegro energico (Concerto No. I in G minor, Op. 26) (Max Bruch ).
Yehudi Menuhin is perhaps the most remarkable prodigy violinist in the whole history of music. Born at New York in 1917, Menuhin was taken to his first concert at the ago of fourteen months, and, much to the surprise of his parents, he gave no trouble, and listened intently throughout a long orchestral programme. When three years of age Menuhin commenced to learn the violin, and* at six he played for the first time in public before an audience of 12,000 at the Civic Auditorium.
Menuhin's genius was manifest from the beginning, and within three or four years he had matured into a violinist of the front rank, fit to be compared with the greatest masters of his instrument, both from a technical and interpretative point of view.