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Menuhin Conducts Elgar

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
In the 1930s Yehudi Menuhin recorded Elgar's Violin Concerto with the composer conducting, a recording which is among the most famous gramophone records ever released. Tonight he conducts a programme of Elgar's music including a performance in which he accompanies one of the brightest stars of the younger generation, the Chinese-American cellist Yo Yo Ma. with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, leader BARRY GRIFFITHS
Overture: Cockaigne (In London town)
Cello Concerto In I minor

Contributors

Unknown:
Yehudi Menuhin
Unknown:
Ye Yo Ma.
Leader:
Barry Griffiths
Source: Radio Times

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