For those after an historic performance the BBC Music Magazine Vol 20, No 4 features Yehudi Menuhin live at the Edinburgh Festival on the 29 August 1948 with the BBC Scottish Orchestra - played this just the other day !!. Coupled with Dona nobis pacem conducted by the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, recorded November 1936. This is quite a moving performance. RVW seems to be the "go to" composer for several conductors/orchestras, with many excellent releases recently.
Violin Moves All Over the Sound Stage
I have a beautiful digital recording of Isaac Stern and the NY Philharmonic playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Major. The solo violin sounds sometimes in the center, sometimes from the left speaker and sometimes like two different violins in two different locations. What is wrong?
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