The Art of Violin, The Art of Piano, The Art of Conducting

An informal trilogy on the two most prominent solo instruments and on the art of conduction. Contemporary musicians candidly evoke and praise their colleagues an predecessors. Perlmann on the individual sound of early and mid twentieth century violinists:

Perlmann on Menuhin:

Oistrakh's cadenza for Shostakovich's Violin Concerto:

Menuhin plays the Ciaccona from the d-moll Partita: