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...substituting harpsichord for piano, Victor has produced a version (DM-1035) of J. S. Bach's Third Sonata for violin and clavier in E flat more faithful to the Seventeenth Century style than the recording cut several years ago by Yehudi Menuhin and his sister Hepzibah. Although the harpsichord part may be slightly less important than the violin, the precision and vigor commanded by Wanda Landowska provide a better accompaniment for Menuhin than the carefully uninspired piano performance by his sister...
...Menuhin has often been accused of stylizing his performance to provide a better display of his virtuoso technique, but here no such criticism can be offered, for his presentation contains the proper lyric and melodic qualities without the affectation which detracted from his playing of the late Mozart sonatas...
...last fall (as a "tool" of the Nazis) from resuming as conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, was permanently banned by U.S. military government authorities. Brigadier General Robert A. McClure decided that the famed conductor's early anti-Naziism had weakened. As he had last December, Jewish Violinist Yehudi Menuhin bravely stuck his neck out for his fellow artist, cabled the General: "I beg to take violent issue. . . . The man was never a Party member ... I believe it is patently unjust...
...Manhattan's Italian-born Vittorio Sacconi regularly overhauls Joseph Szigeti's Guarneri and Yehudi Menuhin's Strad; Jascha Heifetz takes his violins to Mischa Yurkevitch when in New York, to A. Koodlach in Los Angeles...
Last week Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, back from a European tour, made a strong appeal for the Nazi Staatsrat, made even stronger by the fact that Menuhin is Jewish. He said: "If there is one musician who deserves to be reinstated, it is Furtwängler. ... It is well known that he held on to the Jewish members of his orchestra as long as he possibly could. . . . He would be welcomed in Paris. If Paris can take a German, I'm sure we should have no qualms about...