This episode of ‘The Archive’ is dedicated to Arthur Grumiaux, the leading representative of the Belgian school of violin in the late 20th century. Here we see Arthur Grumiaux in 1961, during the Nice Festival, performing Mendelssohn’s Violin concerto No. 2 in E minor with the Orchestra of the RTF conducted by Manuel Rosenthal. To conclude this concert, he performs Paganini’s Caprice No. 14 in E flat major. The next two archive films let us discover two parts of Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D minor; Sarabande performed in 1962, and Chaconne performed in 1967, for French television. The program ends with Nigun by Bloch, in which Grumiaux is accompanied by André Chometon on the piano.
