Only Connect - Yehudi Menuhin <> Benjamin Britten
How are these sitters connected?
Eric William Fenby; Yehudi Menuhin
by Unknown photographer
1970s
NPG x27595
Benjamin Britten
by Sarah Fanny Hockey
circa 1920
NPG 5137
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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