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’.

Find out more about Menuhin connections with co-curator Peter Sheppard Skaerved

Explore other Menuhin connections

Yehudi Menuhin <> Edward Elgar

Yehudi Menuhin <> Eric Fenby

Yehudi Menuhin <> Frederic Delius

Yehudi Menuhin <> Michael Tippet

Yehudi Menuhin <> Priaulx Rainier

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