Jeremy Menuhin & Friends

Chamber Music

Wednesday, 24 August 2022
7.30 pm, Temple de Château-d'Œx

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 music, 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 of a piece 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 24^th 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.