Described as the greatest violinist of the 20th century, Yehudi Menuhin
(1916-1999) devoted his life to music. To the delight of music lovers, he
bequeathed a body of work comprising over three hundred recordings, spread over
seventy years of activity since his first session in 1929 at the age of
thirteen. A pupil of Louis Persinger, Georges Enesco and Adolf Busch, the
virtuoso quickly established an international reputation that was hampered by
the Second World War. A partner to legendary conductors (from Bruno Walter to
Wilhelm Furtwängler), he built his own legend on pieces by...