Menuhin

Summary

Dominique Pagani speaks of Yehudi Menuhin only occasionally. He names him among the great violinists1 and recommends a recording: Granados's Andaluza, played as a duo with Segovia, in a session on happiness set against the death drive in music2. He is mainly interested in the part Menuhin plays for other musicians. In a discussion of Wagner and his performers, he recalls that Menuhin testifies in Furtwängler's favour during Furtwängler's denazification3. He comes back twice to Menuhin's support for Bartók in the composer's last years. In 2022, speaking about Nietzsche, he says that Menuhin obtains the commission of the Concerto for Orchestra for Bartók4. In the session devoted to Bartók, he presents him as the violinist who commissions a work from Bartók and so gives him back some resources5. This second passage does not say which work it is.

1. 1#2 Benefits and harms of amnesia…23 Oct 2020 · 1:01:15
2. 2#5 Happiness versus the death drive in music11 Dec 2020 · 30:57
3. 3Wagner and his interpreters, approaching Clouscard, Marx = Theseus?31 Mar 2021 · 35:53
4. 4#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions23 Jun 2022 · 46:51
5. 5Bartók: the unheard-of sound13 Jul 2022 · 9:39

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.