Yehudi and Hephzibah Menuhin were the first to record the large-scale Sonata in G major by the tragic Belgian composer Guillaume Lekeu (1870–94), who died a day after his 24th birthday. Yehudi first learnt the masterly Sonata in A major by Lekeu’s teacher, César Franck, in 1927 at the French country house of the great Romanian composer, conductor and violinist, George Enescu. The Sonata ‘became so imbued with the place that I only have to play it to see again… Enescu at the upright piano, and beyond the open window, the smiling French countryside’. This recording of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 3 was the fruit of Yehudi’s second visit to Australia. The joy of that 1940 summer, enhanced by the birth in Melbourne of Yehudi and Nola Menuhin’s second child, can be heard in the relaxed performance that brother and sister gave in the Sydney studio.