Yehudi Menuhin: Violin of the Century
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Actor: Yehudi MenuhinDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 130 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: EMI Classics
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Movie Review: Menuhin: Violin of the Wannabe
Summary: 2 Stars
If one looks at and listens carefully to this DVD and picks up the subliminal subtexts, one recognizes Menuhin for the ultimate wannabe that he was. A great child prodigy, his powers started to wane when he reached 16 years of age. Having fled from the USA to the UK and Switzerland to get away from the Heifetz phenomenon, Menuhin's seething under-he-surface rage and envy toward Heifetz resulted in an unseemly yet utterly revealing outburst on the DVD. As Menuhin played worse and worse - slow, out of tempo, unmusically, unimaginatively, with an ugly tone and out of tune - he began to label his playing as "spiritual". Its seems that the more spiritual his playing became in his head, the worse it sounded to his listeners! Menuhin became the big dabbler, the big wannabe. He wanted to be like the gypsies, like a Grappelli, an Enescu, a Shankar, a Kreisler, an Oistrakh, a guru, a yogi, a statesman, a philosopher, an educator, a conductor. He did become a random endorser of poor products and mediocre violinists, and the subject of numerous self-serving (auto-)biographies. All were failures that led to nothing, zero. He just became a totally self-absorbed, intolerably opiniated old man. He left a huge legacy of CD's and DVD's, most of which are unbearably bad and unlistenable, with a few very notable exceptions that painfully remind us of what could have been. No-one refers to him any more. He is forgotten, spiritually dead. An altogether sad story.
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