CD 7: War and peace. Menuhin snatched the recently rediscovered Schumann
concerto – which he described as the “missing link of the violin literature” –
from under the Nazis’ noses.
Then, in October 1944, just two months after the Liberation of Paris, he
re-opened the Paris Opéra with Charles Munch, playing the Marseillaise and an
extract from the Mendelssohn concerto, a work that had been forbidden during the
Occupation.
The entire radio broadcast of this emotion-laden concert is to be heard on this
disc.