acclaimed tour through Southern Africa with accompanist Jean-Clause Ambrosini. Ferras made many recordings with EMI, including Beethoven's sonatas for violin and piano with Pierre Barbizet (1958) Berg's Chamber Concerto and his Violin Concerto 'To the Memory of an Angel'. He went on in 1964 to record the Brahms Concerto with Herbert von Karajan for the Deutsche Grammophon label, and then the concertos of Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Bach, which are the recordings for which he is most admired. He continued to make recordings with Deutsche Grammophon: with Barbizet, the violin sonatas of Brahms, Schumann, Franck and Lekeu. Awards/honours Ferras's 1965 Deutsche Grammophon recording of the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic won both the Grand Prix du Disque and Edison Prize. In 1975, he was awarded recognition by the Conservatoire de Paris for his works, and retired from regular public performance for health reasons. He returned to playing in Paris on 9 March 1982 with Alain Lefèvre and then on 6 May with Pierre Barbizet. He gave his last concert in Vichy on 25 August 1982. Death Christian Ferras struggled with severe lifelong depression. He committed suicide in Paris on 14 September 1982, aged 49. References External links "Les Amis de Christian Ferras" (in French); accessed 25 February 2016. 1933 births 1982 suicides 20th-century French male classical violinists Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition prize-winners Suicides in France People from Le Touquet 1982 deaths