Rare Recording Found Of Yaltah Menuhin Playing Bloch’s “Visions and Prophecies”

Yaltah Menuhin, the prodigy pianist and sister of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, the greatest musical prodigy since Mozart, made this private recording in Australia when she went for the memorial in the early ’80s for her sister Hephzibah, also a prodigy pianist. All three children knew Bloch well.

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His first book, “The Menuhins: A Family Odyssey,” is also available digitally. Rolfe has written seven books, including those devoted to politics, literature and politics.

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