| Set List | 'Sonata in A Major', Franck (Menuhin, Hubert Giesen),
'Chaconne', Bach (Menuhin, Hubert Giesen),
'Scotch Fantasy, Op.46', Bruch (Menuhin, Hubert Giesen),
Improvisation 'Nigun' from Baal Shem (Chassidic Life), Bloch (Menuhin, Hubert Giesen),
'Siciliano and Rigaudon', Francoeur-Kreisler (Menuhin, Hubert Giesen),
'Scherzo-Tarantelle', Wieniawski (Menuhin, Hubert Giesen)
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SECOND ENCORE
THIRD ENCORE
FOURTH ENCORE |
| Performance Notes | Yehudi Menuhin's Royal Albert Hall debut performance.
" 'Boy Violinist's Triumph - Lionised at Albert Hall: Crowd Held Back'
A small flaxen haired boy, wearing an open shirt, with short sleeves, shorts and black socks and shoes - diminutive figure on the Albert Hall platform - held thousands of people spellbound yesterday. He was Yehudi Menuhin, the 12-year-old Jewish American violinist, who has won fame in Europe and America.
For more than two hours Menuhin played a programme capable of taxing the greatest artist, yet he remained as cool and assured as a man. Seldom have such scenes of enthusiasm been seen at the Albert Hall at the end of a concert. People flocked up to the platform, and firemen had to keep the crowd back. The cheers and applause were deafening.
Men threw their hats in the air and women waved their hands and handkerchiefs. The audience refused to leave even after Menuhin had given three encores, the lights had been turned out, the piano closed, and the young artist had come back in his coat to bow his thanks.
Still cheering continued, until, in desperation, the boy violinist came back once more with his violin. The lights were then switched on, the piano opened and the crowd swept back, while, as much to his own evident enjoyment as that of the audience, Menuhin played yet another encore. Finally, the lights all over the hall had to be turned out before people would leave."
(Unknown newspaper, November 1929) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1929/67) |