Show her as she really was:
"A first-rate soloist!"
Such is the ambition of the fascinating box set tribute to Hephzibah Menuhin that Warner Classics has just published, under the leadership of documentary filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon.
The director, close to Yehudi Menuhin, to whom he devoted several films, has always been captivated by the solar personality of the young sister of the “violinist of the century”.
“She was an incredible woman. A gifted person, who spoke seven languages. She always had the right word. As when she answers in an interview, to Bernard Gavoty, that she would have liked to be married to Beethoven because with her, he would have been less “grumpy”. This delicious humor said a lot about his personality. While being capable of extremely deep things, she was having fun. Was looking for the reaction. Not to provoke, but because she wanted to see you assert yourself. ”
She always had the right word.
As when she answers in an interview, to Bernard Gavoty, that she would have liked to be married to Beethoven because with her, he would have been less “grumpy”
Bruno Monsaingeon, documentary filmmaker
From Hephzibah Menuhin, we especially remembered the woman of commitments.
The one who, at the end of the war, will put herself,
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