Only Connect - Benjamin Britten <> Yehudi Menuhin
How are these sitters connected?
Benjamin Britten
by Sarah Fanny Hockey
circa 1920
NPG 5137
Eric William Fenby; Yehudi Menuhin
by Unknown photographer
1970s
NPG x27595
The connection
In 1945 Benjamin Britten and Yehudi Menuhin played at the recently liberated concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Britten later confessed the experience ‘coloured everything he had written subsequently’.
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