Jeremy Menuhin & Friends
Chamber Music
Thursday, 13 August 2020
7.30 pm, Rougemont Church
You undoubtedly know the pianist, who made his debut at the Festival in 1965, less than a decade after its creation by his father, but do you know him as a composer? Jeremy Menuhin has recently returned to the world of writing, which he began during his early years in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. Here he is offering, hand in hand with his wife Mookie and his friends from the Carmina Quartet, two of his own works, including a world premiere for string quartet, which he has chosen to present together with the very virtuoso and dynamic Variations composed in 1941 by Lutosławski on the theme of Paganini's famous 24th Caprice, as well as with Shostakovich's monumental Piano Quintet, a work that achieves an unlikely fusion between Bach's counterpoint and the Russian melodic tradition.
Jeremy Menuhin, Piano & Composition
Mookie Menuhin, Piano
Carmina Quartett
Matthias Enderle, Violin
Agata Lazarczyk, Violin
Wendy Champney, Viola
Chiara Enderle Samatanga, Cello
| Jeremy Menuhin (1951) | |
| Suite for 2 Pianos in the Baroque manner | 23' |
| Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994) | |
| Variationen on a Theme by Paganini for 2 Pianos | 6' |
| Jeremy Menuhin (1951) | |
| Quartet in 5 Movements (world premiere) | 24' |
| — interval — | |
| Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) | |
| String Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57 | 35' |
| 110' | |
| CHF 80/60/40 |